Sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin has always worked hard to get what she wants. As the school year begins, her work is paying off: Her grades are up and she’s landed a coveted spot on the Brain Bowl team. She and her best friend, Jory Delaney, are determined to have the best junior year ever.
Then Melissa receives devastating news about her health. At first she refuses to accept the doctor’s diagnosis, but as her illness gets worse, she...

Diagnosed with leukemia at the age of thirteen, Dawn starts her chemotherapy. She becomes best friends with her roommate, Sandy, and both go into remission. But when Sandy gets sick again, Dawn wonders what the future holds, both for Sandy and for her.

Rachel Deering, an otherwise normal 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, suddenly finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes. Now she needs to learn how to manage her disease, and to cope with being different from all her friends. Will she ever dancd again? Rachel Deering loves-and lives-to dance. She dreams of someday becoming a professional dancer. When she is invited to try out at the regional auditions for New York City Ballet...

Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has already survived leukemia twice. This summer she will returning to the summer camp for children with cancer where she spent the best two weeks of each of the past two summers. This year, though, she'll be a counselor, sharing her experiences to help others deal with their cancers.

Anderea is thirteen and scared. She feels her family is falling apart. She can't even admit to herself that her parents are divorcing. They say they love her, but she needs more than just words in her life.

Christina's friends and loved ones must learn to cope when she is killed and two other high school seniors are injured in a car accident.

Fourteen-year-old Darcy's life undergoes a drastic change when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974 and is unable to help Darcy deal with the teenage struggles of starting high school, falling in love, and worrying about the Vietnam War.

With the support of her two best friends, high school senior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.

Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.

A cynical teenager discovers that angels appear in the most unexpected places when sixteen-year-old Leah is hospitalized during the holiday season and meets a large, warm, and loving Amish family.