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When Allie fears she is pregnant, she leaves home with Razz, a skateboard champion. Returning home she is caught up in a tornado that threatens to destroy everything. She learsn to believe in herself and face her future.

Lucy has her life planned out: she'll graduate and then join her boyfriend, Luke, at college in Austin. She'll become a Spanish teacher, and they'll get married. Deciding there's no reason to wait, and despite trying to be careful, Lucy gets pregnant. Now, none of Lucy's options are part of her picture-perfect plan. Together, she and Luke will have to make the most difficult decision of their lives.

Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects. Gujiao, China, 2009. Luli has aged out of the orphanage, and her friend Yun helps her get work at a factory. Yun has new clothes, a cell phone, and a boyfriend. But word is Yung is a bride...

"Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start--Joel even...

Luci remembers how the boys kissed her. She remembers how they touched her and told her she was beautiful. Sometimes she can hear their voices in her head, begging her for more. And she can remember how it felt when she gave it to them. For a while anyway. But when she finds out that she is pregnant she has to face her father and the dark family secret that he's been hiding. Ultimately, she decides to abort the baby. Will she ever be at peace with...

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...