Lois-Ann Yamanaka | Name Me Nobody | Named after Emmylou Harris because her mother used to ‘do it’ to the Profile album, 14-year-old Emi-Lou Kaya feels like a nobody in her Hawaiian town:
Gina Harris | I Kiss Girls | Joanie’s got all of the problems of an almost seventeen year old girl. She’s trying to get her driver’s license, her mom and dad are pressuring her ab
Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V
Maureen Johnson | The Bermudez Triangle | ‘Their friendship went so far back, it bordered on the Biblical-in the beginning, there was Nina and Avery and Mel.’ So says high school senior Nina B
Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You A Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol
Sandra Scoppettone | Trying Hard To Hear You | Sixteen-year-old Camilla Crawford tells about a crucial summer in which her close-knit theater group discovers that two of their members are gay.
Julie Anne Peters | It’s Our Prom | Told in separate voices, Azure, who is a lesbian, and Luke, who is bisexual, help plan an inclusive senior prom while Luke is writing and producing a
Julia Watts | Finding H.F. | Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt
