Conejos Library District

After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more.

Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself.

Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.

Princess Mia's junior year in high school begins with a difficult course load, a crazy student council race, Grandmere's search for temporary lodging, and learning that her boyfriend is moving to Japan for a year, partly because she will not sleep with him.

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

Fifteen-year-old Aleecia can't believe it when Kyle, the 18-year-old captain of the football team, falls for her. She would do anything to keep him as her own, even have sex without protection. When she gets pregnant, she tells Kyle, and he stands by her--at least for a while. But Kyle's troubled family life intrudes on their bliss. Being a pregnant teenager turns out to be a lot harder than Aleecia ever imagined. Will their love weather Kyle's move...

Isabella and Carlos live in St. Louis, Missouri--and are totally in love. They are 18 and finishing their senior year of high school when they decide to have a baby and get married. Carlos joins the military to support his new family. But when tragedy strikes, Isabella is left completely devastated and forced to raise her child alone. A year later, she is reunited with Pete, a boy she knew in high school. For a while, she thinks she's found a second...

Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant.