Overwrought when she sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl during a class field trip, seventeen-year-old Miriam Feldman races into the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden and pushes over a priceless Picasso sculpture, then finds herself blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw what she did.

When Greg's design wins the contest for the mural in the new community center, he has to deal with the malicious anger of one of the losers, as well as the jealousy of his older cousin James.

I'm pretty sure that by the time I finish high school, I'll be cracked into a pile of shards, beyond repair ... At fifteen, Clover is finding the going tougher than she expected. Her life is close to being derailed on the rocky terrain of family, friendship, first love, acts of defiance and a planet on the brink of environmental disaster. So when Keek breaks his promise to her, and school sucks, and her mother is impossible, and her beloved old dog...