
Resenting her parents restrictions Stacey Hipner creates a web of deception with the new boy Garr Garwin but is she really interested in him or merely creating her own independence? WHY WAS SHE CONSTANTLY TORN IN TWO DIRECTIONS? Sixteen-year-o...
Kate’s life as the brainy big sister of the adorable , popular Mimi wasn’t easy but all this changed when Kate took up golf. WILL KATE'S SECRET DREAM COME TRUE? Kate's life as the brainy big sister of adorable, popular Mimi was neve...
Chubby Melissa daydreams about high school football hero Greg, but Greg only dates cheerleaders. After her aunt buys her a health club membership, Melissa slims down and learns about hair, clothes, and make-up, only to return to school for her junior...
When her old boyfriend went off to college, Sarah Jordan felt lost and alone, especially when she thought about the Winter Class Carnival and Senior Prom. How could she enjoy her senior year without him? Then she met a new classmate, Bernard St On...
Lisa Kelly’s interest in flowers earns her a summer job at Rick Brewster’s father’s florist shop. She is thrilled when she and Rick start dating but she worries that the relationship is only a summer fling. Beauty's more the way your fee...
Kate Flemming has always been the insignificant middle sister. That is until Ross Barrow the most popular boy in school asked her out. KATE’S AN IN-BETWEEN GIRL… Not as sweet as her big sister, not as cute as the little one, Kate Fleming f...
Tammy Hastings has never felt she was especially good at anything. That was before Jeff Berger asked her to sing with him on Talent Night. Over night she became a star! Soon Jeff became the center of her life. But she had to learn you can’t a...
VONNIE HAD A SECRET She was determined not to share it with her classmates. After all, it wasn't their business. That would make moving easier. No one could call her "strange" or "different". She'd make a fresh start. This time, she promised herself...
Was it an impossible love ? As the new girl in town, Janine Anderson had no way of knowing that she had just flipped over one of the most popular boys in school. Craig Matthews was a public figure, a star athlete already dating a cheerleader. W...
When Julie Talbott father dies it brings about some unexpected changes moving to another state , starting in a new school and having to make new friends. But Julie’s shyness is mistaken for snobbery and when she attempts to launch a campaign to...
Deb was devastated when she heard the news... A move from a small town to a big city can certainly change a person's life, especially when you're sixteen and don't like the idea. Soon she found that there was more to it than just changing schools and...
Denne Drake’s older sister Alicia had everything.She was beautiful , popular , and talented. Denne could never measure up. How can she compete with glamorous Alicia for the most perfect boy in the world. DENNE COULDN’T STAND ALWAYS BEING COM...
THINGS WERE GOING GREAT! Kathy Miller was honored when she was chosen to play in the school marching band and thrilled that Craig Stephens, a gorgeous guy in the band, agreed to give her oboe lessons. Now her life was complete. Together they wo...
This would be the best summer ever the summer she would campaign for Country Harvest Queen, just as her mother and sister had done before her. Karen doesn’t want to be Harvest Queen, though no one will listen to her but Roger, an outsider, who’s ...
Louise takes a job as art counselor at a summer camp and finds that the job involves more than teaching art to kids when a handsome counselor dares her to shoot the rapids with him. LOUISE WAS PLANNING THE BEST SUMMER OF HER LIFE. Louise Basset...
Julie hoped she would find love at her new home in Tall Pines. She looked forward to meeting new friends, learning to ski at her parents' resort, and spending time with her mother after years of separation. Then Nolan Radford, a performer at the l...
Tobey begins to doubt the love of her boyfriend, Kirk, when he becomes involved with her friend, Virgie, who nurses Kirk while he is in the hospital. SHE SWAM LIKE A MERMAID--HE LOOKED LIKE A SEA GOD... Together they triumphantly surfed along t...
"When two hearts collide... Things get all snarled up," Eric had told Cassie. It was all too true. Whenever Cassie and Eric got together, incredible things happened: arguments, misunderstandings, problems... But Cassie's father had always told her: f...
Cleaning the science room aquarium seemed like a funny way to get to know a boy, and anyway, Pam was too shy to take advantage of the situation. When Steve dropped off a newspaper clipping the next day, Pam hoped that he was expressing at least a cas...
Can a girl admit to being a brain? You better believe it! Laurie Anderson finds out that it is not only possible, but fun, to combine love with honors. CAN'T GIRLS HAVE BRAINS? And fun, too? Laurie Anderson was eager to make friends and ho...
Marcy thought that life at Lake Marinac changed when the summer people arrived. They brought a hint of the city's excitement with them. It might be fun to ride in their fast boats, dance until three in the morning... go to all those beach parties. No...
"MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT WITH OTHER GUYS," Joanne's friends all told her. But she couldn't. She had fallen for Tim . Tim with his blond hair and crooked smile, Tim who called her gorgeous. She knew that she had another year of school, while Tim wa...
LISA WAS SAILING ALONG ON A DREAM A luxurious cruise with her dad, the Skipper, and his son Michael was supposed to give Lisa a chance to sort out just who she was: daddy's grown up daughter or mother's little girl. But one look at handsome Mic...
Was Tim really an acronym for Terrible Infuriating Monster? Sunny was convinced that it was. Every single summer of her sixteen years Tim and his rich, snobbish parents returned to Sea's Edge to make her life miserable. Now here he was again! It w...
This year, Michele told her friends, she was determined to be a different person. She would change her name, be more outgoing, get more involved. She didn’t realize that there was one special guy who didn’t feel any of these moves was necessary, ...
Sixteen-year-old Shay was looking forward to the big move from Connecticut to Oklahoma. There she would have a horse of her own, make new friends, maybe even have a steady boyfriend. Things turned out even better than she had planned. One by one she ...
The party was an unqualified success! And the best part had been lithe, handsome Mark James who had tumbled into Netta’s life and was now doing flipflops in her singing heart. Would he juggle it as expertly as he did those oranges? She didn’t car...
Andy and Lori neighbors and friends since kindergarten. They had never imagined that anything could come between them. Yet when they exchange their first kiss, everything changed. Would they ever be friends again? Or should they chance the bitte...
From the moment the dynamic young actor, Casey Dewitt , stepped on stage, Michelle fell under his spell. She was sure his golden hair and turquoise eyes would forever enchant her. At last she had met the boy of her dreams. ...
Gerry’s starring role in the school play gave her a chance at fame and fortune. and when her friend, Artisto, champion goalie of the hockey team, encouraged her to take a long shot, she knew she just had to try it. ...
Mild mannered Abby was due for a change. It seemed that life was passing her by - no date for the senior barbeque, slim chances of getting picked for the cheerleading squad, and only two weeks left before the boy of her dreams would be gone forever. ...
If Robin Miller hadn't been late leaving school, she might have missed seeing Eddie Fielding... and her whole life would have been different. They had gone to grade school and junior high together. Then he had moved to another part of town. Now he ha...
Gliding over the ice always made Molly feel as though she were in a special, beautiful world. While turning and spinning, she could forget everything: family problems, bad days at school, her annoying lack of self-confidence, and the fact that sh...
You’re definitely in this year! So everyone told Jana Seabrook. And it was wonderful to be one of the most popular girls at Gold Coast High �" the hit of every party , a school leader, an academic whiz and a member of the in crowd. Then along ...
When stardust gets in your eyes you can’t see the real person. Barbara was so entranced by the image of Tim, the popular and handsome basketball star and class president, that she couldn’t see beyond the glitter. Luckily for her, Sandy “th...
Could Caroline combine her studies, her love for sports, her mother's insistence that she have a social life, and her exciting new relationship with football star Matt Anderson? After she failed her geometry quiz she was in danger of losing her pla...
Whatever happened to the old Todd Roberts, cutup and clown of the junior class ? He became a senior, that's what! Now, as duly elected class president, he would be mature, dignified, a straight-A student, a mover and shaker, friend to the principa...
Life could be the cat's meow! At least according to Andy Warren, the guy next door. But for Stacy Callahan the summer was a drag -- what with a big house to manage, a bratty little brother, and a romance with a temperamental fellow astronomer that se...
What do you do when you meet a guy and can’t get him out of your mind? What do you say when you fall for him and your brothers have told him things that make you sound like a gawky boy. How do you act… when you really want him to stand up and...
Although he was a knight riding gallantly through Tina's dreams, she was sure that in reality there was no room for him in her life. She already had her hands full with Stan, her steady, reliable boyfriend, and Bell, the mare she was preparing for th...
The world was a stage for Jeremy Vaughn… From the first moment Sharon had met Jeremy she had known he was extraordinary, different from the rest of the crowd, someone who would have the power to confuse her with new ideas, open up new horizons. ...
When her mother took on a handsome new boarder, a young medical student, Karen decided that he should be the love of her life. She had to learn for herself that there are many different ways of loving. KAREN HAD ALWAYS WONDERED… What was it l...
Leslie was determined to be true to her old boyfriend even when she moved to another state and started in a new school. But foxy Mark Spencer had other plans for her, and it was becoming more difficult every day not to fall in with them. SHE WOULD...
When Beth toured England with her high school madrigal group, she fell head over heels in love with a dashing Cambridge student. But would she ever solo in his heart?...
Libby was sure that she had landed the perfect job. She had been hired as an usher at the summer theater where Nick Gantry was starring. Now all that she had to do was convince him that she should be his off-stage leading lady. THERE WAS NO DOUBT...
TWO PEAS IN A POD! Everyone felt that way about identical twins Shirrel and Fran. Shirrel was sure that was the truth…until one summer when she went away to Lake Tahoe and learned that she was a person in her own right. Suddenly she discovere...
Summer boys almost never wrote to summer sweethearts after their ferries had carried them back to the mainland. Island girls often waited in vain through long, lonely months for letters that never came. But that would never happen to Ellen, for she ...
Stephanie hated moving to her grandmother’s isolated in Oklahoma. That was before she fell under the spell of rolling mountains, and windswept prairies, before she met a tall, dark-haired boy as rugged and exciting as the vast country she grew to l...
SUN, SAND AND STARS Lauren's life had never looked so good. It was her first summer at Fire Island, and she planned to enjoy every moment of it. And now that she had met Brad Caldwell, the best-looking guy in the old summer crowd, everything was just...
“Lucille means Little Light,” David explained. Lucille didn’t care. She was upset because she hadn’t been given a part in the school play. Now she would have to settle for a job behind the scenes working on the lights. All the action woul...
Click! She had done it again! Almost everyone wished pesky Liane with her candid shots would learn the proper way to take pictures �" of subjects carefully posed who always looked their best. Only handsome Alan appreciated Liane’s knack for ca...
Katie discovered that running with Brian was different from running with anyone else. There was a oneness about them. They shared the elation and joy of it just as they shared so much else. For Katie had found out that she could tell Brian how she fe...
Carol had always been attracted to blond, handsome Gregg, the charismatic swimming star of Deerfield High. It was true that he never understood her more serious side, but what did that matter when they had such a good time together and all her fr...
A modern fairy tale. Even as a little girl, Maude had told herself stories in which she always starred as the glamorous heroine. Before she met Ashley, the hero had always been a shadowy, nameless figure. Now that he had finally stepped into her l...
NOW SHE HAD REALLY BLOWN IT! How could she have stirred up such a hornets' nest? Andrea asked herself. Her lead article in the school newspaper had caused her nothing but trouble. It had annoyed the coach, enraged the principal, alienated her frie...
Baby-sitting for a nice couple in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains could be a drag, even though Alison liked her employers and their daughter. Something was definitely missing. Could it possibly be masculine attention? Then, in answer to her drea...
Stacy had just learned that her parents were divorcing. They had sent her miles away to spend the summer with relatives on a farm in Alabama. What did she know about cows, horses and tractors? What did she care about okra picking and home canning? Wh...
“HE’S THE BEST LOOKING GUY IN SCHOOL!” All Kary’s friends told her. And he was -- Chuck Dante, star football player, Mr. Popularity, always accompanied by a gang of loyal boys, chased after by all the girls. And now he had included Kary i...
Jenny’s hospital duties as a new candy striper had not been too serious so far, until she met blue eyed Bryan as he was being wheeled into X-Ray. But it was not his broken leg that upset her, she knew it would heal quickly. It was the possibility o...
SHE HAD A SPORTING CHANCE! It was a big day for Holly Malone when she learned that she was going to be the new captain of the soccer team. And she was even more thrilled when her student coach turned out to be the handsome Bob Anderson, who thoro...
Polly Anderson was famous as a fortune teller; she had been doing it ever since grade school. When she moved to a California high school, she started telling fortunes again and soon won many new friends that way. Sometimes she told them about the fut...
No senior ever falls for a junior , Wendy’s friends informed her when she told them that she was sharing, of all things, a sewing machine with a cute guy in home ec. Wendy didn’t agree, and, fortunately neither did Rick. ...
It was that certain summer when Brenna’s parents kept bugging her about deciding on her plans for a future career. It was the summer that Brenna had firmly decided to do basically nothing, until her yard was over flowing with all the neighborhood ...
When Kerri moved to a dude ranch in Montana she learned there was more to it than helping to care for the guests and learning to ride. Two handsome guys were determined to rope her in. Which one should she choose? A difficult decision! Kerri kn...
SHE WAS MS. LONELY-HEARTS OF LINCOLN HIGH! "All that experience... all that confidence plus your secret knowledge... Someday you just have to tell us how you got it all! " Lori's classmates begged her. But the truth of the matter was that Lori ...
THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS... Neal was the richest girl in town and lived in a mansion high on the hill. Rick was a poor boy who, when he wasn't busy with school or homework, held down a tough job in her father's garage. They stirred up local...
When Gaby first fell in love with Heath it was pure happiness. But soon their relationship swept them into deep waters. Could she cope with her new found tumultuous feeling and still be friends with that certain boy? ...
When Susan heard that she had earned a place in a special program for the gifted, she was horrified. She knew her friends would consider her weird and she worried about keeping up with the work. Before long she found out that she was truely gift...
HE WAS MORE THAN A CRITTER-SITTER! Mark Maxwell was the star baseball player and just about the most popular guy in Blossom High. Celia nearly flipped when she found out that her mother had hired him to dog-sit while the Clinton family went off to...
Her father was shocked Her mother, surprised! The guests, astounded! Or so Megan felt when a handsome stranger took her in his arms and tenderly kissed her under the mistletoe. It was going to be the best Christmas vacation Megan had ever exper...
IT WAS THE TOUGHEST JOB EVER! Why, oh, why, Debbie wondered, did she have to give up her carefree summer to slave as a junior hostess in a rustic summer hotel? The hours were horrendous. Her feet were killing her. The lake was too cold for swim...
JOSH HAD MADE UP HIS MIND! Though barely seventeen, strapping Josh McClaine, a new boy in Haywood High, had already made a name for himself as a star football player. Determined to win an athletic scholarship, he readily agreed to weekly sessions ...
Sarah had carefully planned her escape! At last she had the chance to flee "Deadsville" and her parents and enjoy the most wonderful summer of her life. She had found a baby-sitting job on her own and would soon be taking the ferry to Setawket, a gla...
SHE WOULD BE FAMOUS! Patsy was thrilled to be in Greenwich Village for the summer. It was a place where people filled with magic lived, writers and actors and painters. And as an usher in the renowned Altree Theater, she would be a part of it all....
SHE HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HIM. When Cassie wasn't in school she worked at a local Fort Lauderdale restaurant right across from the beach. Every spring semester break the streets were flooded with vacationing college boys. To the town, they repre...
BREAKING AWAY When Diana was first assigned Pat Atherton as a partner in her wacky sociology class, she was ecstatic -- until she found out that their relationship would revolve around a project involving a raw egg! Suddenly Diana's world becam...
HE HAD TO FIND OUT! Why didn't boys fit into Ginny Morgan's plans for success? Craig Walsh was running after Ginny, but she was only interested in crossing the finish line in the Chambersville Long Run. Despite Craig's persistence, Ginny was alway...
IT WAS ASKING TOO MUCH! Carol had just learned that a total stranger was coming to stay. Her mother explained that the girl was a distant, orphaned relative and should be regarded as one of the family. When she arrived, Carol hated her on sight. S...
SHE HAD NEVER TOLD ANYONE. . . . Blaney Wilder had been known as the class wit for years. She had really enjoyed making all the kids in Balboa crack up. She was a good student, the perpetually cheerful sophomore class president, a popular leader. ...
IT WAS MOST DEFINITELY THE PITS! Channing had moved to a new neighborhood. She had been transferred to a new school. She had been forced to leave all her old friends and familiar routines. Her widowed mother had acquired a dominating new male frie...
SHE WAS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE! Everyone thought it was cute that fifteen-year-old Robyn had been "engaged" to Charles Butler since the age of three. He had proposed to her before a birthday party and she had accepted on the spot. They had been con...
EVERYTHING WAS GOING SWIMMINGLY! Laney was the first to admit that it was pretty awesome living on the edge of the continent. Just the same, she couldn't help thinking that it was a long way from her old home in Massachusetts. Sometimes she found ...
ONE SUMMER . . . When Lisa took a job at the Children's Hospital she found it involved more of a challenge professionally and personally than she had anticipated. Being a Spanish interpreter involved her with the patients, forcing her to disciplin...
IT WASN'T TRUE! Linn was not interested in boys. She couldn't help it if they stared! Why did Grandma blame her? Why should she have to move away from her grandparents' farm, the only home she'd ever known? But Grandma insisted that Linn had reach...
THEY HAD EXCHANGED PICTURES! Artis felt as if she had been a Mexican woman in a former life. The sound of a Spanish guitar, the smell of hot chiles, the sheen of hammered-silver jewelry -- all these seemed to strike a chord deep within her. And no...
WAS SHE RIDING FOR A FALL? Anne wasn't at all sure that she was going to like her new life. She had moved from busy New York to live with her mother and a new stepfather in Virginia. She knew that her mother was very happy, and her stepfather wasn...
HE JUST WASN'T HER TYPE! At least that's what Bitsy kept telling herself about Stu Shearin. There were so many reasons why they were not suited: he was a senior, while she was a lowly junior; he was a big name on campus, while she was only a featu...
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Becky loved working in the library -- she loved books and she loved to read. She had a fantasy that some good-looking guy would come into the library and fall madly in love with her. He would be looking for books on literature...
WHO WAS HE? This mysterious stranger who had suddenly appeared from nowhere? To Jenny’s grandmother, he was a gift from heaven who had come to help her repair her decaying mansion and restore her gardens. To Jenny’s best friend, he was a troub...
Kate is told by a fortune teller that she will have the best year ever. She is also told that the special boy in her life will have the initials HS. Only problem is that the boy she likes does not have those initials. Everything else is coming tr...
Suzie is terrified of flying and to conquer her fear decides to learn how to fly with the help of her great aunt and a gorgeous young instructor. Maybe this will give her the courage to set her apart from her siblings! However will Suzie’s fear...
Carrie had made up her mind that over the summer she would make friends with the right crowd; did all the right things; went to the right places; snagged the most eligible boyfriend. When the fall rolled around she would definitely have an okay senio...
Kelly feels like an ugly duckling in her new school. From the first day she is targeted by the popular crowd who make her the butt of their jokes. When one of them nominates her for class president as a joke , she is just as surprised as they are wh...
LOVE... IS A JOURNEY you take without a road map. LOVE... IS MAKING CHOICES How do you know if you've made the right one? LOVE... IS DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE. Only you can decide what is best for you LOVE... IS TAKING CHANCES. And while you're about it...
Jamie is tired of her steady boyfriend Eric’s bossy ways. He doesn’t seem to like anything she does and that includes her new job at the Pampered Pet store which takes up a lot of her time. He’s even jealous of her handsome co-worker a college ...
Kenneth was a famous model…an actor…but Tamara wanted to know more. Who was the person behind the handsome face that smiled at her from all the ads? What lay behind those eloquant eyes that met hers from every teen commercial? Was he a spoile...
Katherine ( kiki ) is helping her uncle at his photography shop on the beachfront not a bad spot for focusing in on all the gorgeous guys! Especially when she sets her sights on the new lifeguard. But does he feel the same way? Maybe she’s overlook...
At the tender age of fourteen Annie had firmly decided that she preferred Monopoly to fishing , a bubble bath to swimming , soap operas and junkfood to roughing it and camp cookouts. How could her father have enrolled her in program Upward Reach, a s...
Tom was an enigma! When seventeen-year-old Cory met Tom she knew at once that he was everything that she had always wanted; he was gentle, understanding and funny. Every time she saw him, she fell more deeply in love ... Could she love a boy whos...
“EVERYONE HAS SECRETS.” So Buff told Cara. But could she tell him hers? How could she admit that rich old Mrs. Bridgeworth was not really her grandmother, that she really didn’t live with her in a splendid mansion? She could never tell her ...
MARTHA WOULD HAVE TO WING IT! Harlan Blacker was always leading a protest group against such evils as the cafeteria food, elephant poaching in Africa, excessive homework, global warfare, or potholes in the Blossom Valley streets. Now he appeared t...
WAS RON REALLY BAD NEWS? Everyone but Mollie thought so. He was on probation. He'd been mixed up in a grocery store burglary. Her mother called him that boy. Her best friend advised her to find another boyfriend. But Mollie sensed that beneath Ron'...
Amy was furious! A horrendous idea that’s what it was! A new stepfather! Life on an out-of-the-way ranch! An unknown stepsister, probably a drip! Demeaning chores! And now this totally tiresome boy who did nothing but fight with her! As soon as pos...
They had the knack! Everyone said so. The Triple A Dating service was the talk of Blossom Valley High. Run by the Norwood triplets, Amy , Adam and Arthur, it was a thriving business that got dates for everyone but themselves. They had all agreed ...
Very liberated Dani was confused. She had always believed in the equality of the sexes, share and share alike, in an honest and open comradeship. Now she had fallen for the biggest macho jock of them all, Chris Braddon, star athlete and scholar, idol...
Kiley McBride felt she was being drawn along like a magnet as she drove up the winding Vermont road toward Sugar Bush Manor. There she was to begin her new job as nurse-companion to Victoria Grayson, who was confined to a wheelchair. Was Kiley simply...
THEY HAD TO HOLE UP THE IMAGE… For years April and Ryan Brannon, model children and stars of their mother’s morning talk show, had pretended to be people they weren’t. They had dutifully kept up with their work, kept out of trouble, professi...
Becky finds more fame that she ever dreamed just by choosing to grow blackberries for her 4H project. She even gets noticed by Alan Connor, who she has admired from afar. Does he like her for her or for her berries? Or could he be looking for a c...
HER HOPES WERE WILTING WITH THE LETTUCE! Corrie had been so sure that growing a vegetable garden for her home economics class project would win her the “A” that she needed. She even thought that the spring sun would shine on a budding romance ...
WAS THE OLD SORORITY HOUSE REALLY HAUNTED? It certainly appeared to be. Mysterious noises at night, figures lurking in the shadows, and near accidents had made everyone apprehensive. Marcie had even seen the ghost who was reputed to haunt her room...
To be honest Miranda only joined the Tennis club to be close to Kyle �" Kyle with his intense blue eyes, his fierce competitiveness , his sense of fair play. He was every girl’s dream, and most especially Miranda’s. Now that she was reachin...
Amanda becomes responsible for her little sister and aging aunt when her mother dies, and she refuses to accept help, even from handsome Ty Kendall. ”I DON’T TURN KINFOLK AWAY…” Aunt Mary May said when she agreed to take recently orphan...
To market! To market! That’s where Candy was going. To Mr. Otto’s market, that is, to start her part-time job. Her snobbish mother disapproved: “You’ll meet all the wrong people there!” Her father lamented: “My little girl may be in d...
New York! New York! City of bright lights and shinning dreams. And it was all there, waiting for fifteen year old Ariel to conquer. She was enjoying professional school. She was making new friends and was improving her art. She had even recieved s...
OUT ON A LIMB! At last, shy, quiet Molly would escape her flamboyantly noisy family who loved nothing better than the limelight. She had been offered the job as assistant editor of the new school paper. She looked forward to doing her own thing wi...
Vonnie had persuaded her parents to allow her to take a summer job in another town. She wanted her independence and she wanted to prove to her family she could handle her diabetes without supervision. She quickly learned the responsibilities of ...
MORE THAN FRIENDS… It was a lot of responsibility for a thirteen-year-old boy. Sonny’s father had walked out seven years ago and had never returned. Now Sonny was the man of the house. He had to take care of himself and his beautiful, self-cen...
For some time now, popular and pretty Chrissie had been dying to get Adam Norwood, brightest of the Norwood triplets, to notice her. And now she had the opportunity. She had persuaded her parents to allow her to invite him, his sister and her boy...
Let other girls play the dating game, think only of boys and clothes and pretend they liked football, dance up a storm �" Mickey had more in her gourd. With the money she’d made selling her computer game to a company, she planned to buy a hous...
When Carrie’s father was indicted for embezzeling, her whole world changed. Her parents sold their large, comfortable house and moved into a ramshackle house on the outskirts of town. The girl whom she considered her best friend turned against ...
Because she always had the answers, the girls from the dorm came to Greta for advice and support in matters of the heart. She knew everything about boys, she told them: how to attract them , how to evaluate them , which ones to date. Hadn’t she ...
WHAT IS THE WILDER SPECIAL? Pizza with anchovies? A trip to the country? A human teletype? A pesty newshound who too often got caught nosing around in other people’s business? Or just the biggest surprise of Maxine Gallagher’s life? Maxine ...
Though it was hard to leave the boy she loved, fifteen-year -old Ariel knew that going to Hungary and filming on location would be just the kind of boost her budding acting career needed. True, it was hard to leave Jesse, but she was sure that absenc...
Everything had changed for Janine and Craig now that baby Timmy had arrived. Janine hadn’t yet recovered her full strength, and the moving and readjustment to Blossom Valley were taking their toll. Taking care of Timmy was exhausting, and Jani...
Maria hadn’t wanted to give up her summer job in California and come to New Jersey to keep house for her great aunt. At first she’d been bored and restless. The she began to be troubled by dreams- dreams so disquieting that they took over her ...
WAS IT TOO LATE? When Brett and Jodi had broken up the previous summer after the Big Argument, Jodi was determined never to get involved with Brett again. What had she ever seen in him, she constantly asked herself. Once you got beyond the fact th...
There are plenty of fish in the sea! Or so Annette had told herself when she’d broken up with Todd, her old boyfriend, when she’d left for Ocean City. She planned a great summer, meeting new friends, exploring new possibilities. How could she...
Rush had always been a ladies’ man. One look at his sexy grin and girls couldn’t leave him alone. They fell for him like ninepins. Love ‘em and leave ‘em was him motto … until he met Aubrey, who appeared from the start to be surprisingly...
It was every girl’s fantasy �" and Galen’s heartbreak �" to be taking a six-week tour with the Harper River Band, an up-and-coming country rock group. Yet Galen was miserable winding her way through the Southern states with four wild guys a...
Ordinarily cautious, Anne thought that it was high time to add a little excitement to her life, so when she found strange goings-on at the old Westbrook mansion, she decided to investigate. Her curiosity led her straight to Gary Westbrook and into mo...
Annie didn't want to be carried back to old Virginny! It had been okay for her childhood summers, but to spend a whole year in West Virginia enrolled in some hick school and living in a backwoods cabin was just not her idea of a blast. Most of her g...
Melissa has everything: money, looks, brains and a jock boyfriend named Tank. But her parents' marriage is breaking up, and she fears no one likes her for herself. She goes through an unsteady period and finally ends up with a quiet Oriental loner wh...
The Average girl would have probably have been ecstatic to have her mom marry a famous and popular DJ and to move into a reputedly haunted old mansion, but Kara was finding the experience unnerving. Not only was she having trouble with her new s...
Things aren't always what they seem! Take Fran, for example. Heer delicate prettiness belied her sharp intelligence and ready wit. Those who didn't know better thought of her as sweet and shy, an old-fashioned heroine, the kind who adored ...
THE TAIL OF A COMET… That’s the way younger sister Beth had always felt compared to her glamorous, popular sister, Lynn. When Lynn was killed in a tragic accident, Beth felt that she should try to be as much like her sister as possible to make...
A chance encounter. What was it about the Chance Woods? The local gossips said that just to walk in them was dangerous. Not many ventured into their depths. There were too many stories about people who wandered in and never came out. That would n...
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS! That’s what Walter soon would be! A would-be sophisticate who couldn’t even speak French. A ladies’ man who hadn’t met his lady. A world traveler who had yet to see the world. And now he had his chance! For three w...
When Trish agreed to follow her parents' suggestion and transfer from Millville High to snobbish Westover Academy, she didn't tell them the real motive for her compliance. How could she admit to them that the only reason she was taking such a radical...
Sandy had been fourteen years old when Tom had first seen her streaking by him on the track. He couldn’t get her off his mind. He plastered his bedroom walls with newspaper articles about her and framed pictures of her. He daydreamed about her ...
Tavia had a chance to live out her fantasies when she took a glamorous holiday cruise. But would Hall fly away when their ship came home?...
ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! Film and video should have been Nell's favorite class, but it was spoiled for her by the insistent, infuriating comments of Daniel McEnroe, who seemed to think of himself as Mr.Video in person. As a budding scr...
Vonnie was moving again. It was always a heartache and a challenge. This time she was less concerned about her diabetes, for she had picked up an exciting new skill. She knew it would be of help in setting new goals and in making new friends. Sure en...
IT WAS A CHANGING WORLD… But Rick wasn’t at all sure that he wanted to be a part of it. He wasn’t really the type to glory in a challenge and to thrive on risks. Yet the very first day of the fall term he would be initiating a project that c...
“No matter how happy you are you always want to be someone else, ”Mrs. Brinks had explained to Kellogg and Carey shortly before her mysterious disappearance. The thought returned to haunt them. Where had she gone? Had she been abducted? Had some ...
Adrienne was happy that she had been accepted in an exclusive summer biology class. She was sure it would be stimulating, and she looked forward to doing the independent research. She had certainly not expected Tuck to be part of her program, especia...
The old house loomed large...menacing... Instantly Holly knew that she never should have come, but her mother had insisted that she pay her uncle a summer visit. The inmates of the house were weird too. Her uncle was evasive, her aunt, pale and fri...
When Kim Webster heard the sound of her alarm she had already been awake a long time, thinking about the day that lay ahead. For it held the promise of change. Unknown to her parents, she was going to try and get a job. She would show the world she c...
Casey loved the idea of working on an underwater project with Devlin. He was most definitely a deep-sea treasure! But first she had to fathom his negative attitude. ...
Tracy, immature, flighty, and a bit of a snip, falls for the brother of her sister's fiance, but amidst plans for the wedding and the homecoming dance, she comes to suspect Biff of being a boozer. It turns out that he is acting as an undercover agent...
Jeremiah had built a stockade around himself... Lisa was determined to tear it down. It had become an obsession with her. Why did she have this crazy feeling that he needed her as much as she needed him? They had only exchanged a half-dozen words, ye...
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER It was bad enough to move to a small town that was suspicious of strangers. It made it even worse that Jordan was the new police chief’s daughter. On top of that, she had fallen in love with Nick, who had the reputation f...
Vonnie was above her head!... She was making new friends and enjoying academic life in Houston. Now it was time to give a party, and she had the perfect opportunity. Monique Wager, the school glamour girl, was returning from Europe to take up her old...
Annabelle was ready for the big time. She wanted to date someone who didn't remember her from kindergarten, someone who cared more about her and less about the habits of the green -eared beetle, in other words, someone new and glamorous. Who would ha...
Through the driving rain and high winds of a fierce summer storm, Carey had spotted a sail. No one believed her, not even Kellogg, until the next day a battered dingy was washed up on the beach. Had there really been a ship out there? Or was it a gho...
Spending the summer with her absent minded father and her disagreeable new family in his spooky old house turned out to be a frightening experience for Quinn. Fortunately she had two loyal friends, her beloved cat and Logan, a local boy, determined t...
Robin was delirious with joy when her best friend manipulated a date for her with Keith, the gorgeous new guy at school. She'd been positively dying to meet him. To her delight, their first date was a great success. She'd never felt so at home with a...
Kira was dazzled by Stav from the first moment that she saw him in art class. Had she grasped the whole picture, or was she losing her sense of perspective?...