Anne E Schraff

Cindy Gibson, an African-American teenager struggling with her mother's neglect and her mother's boyfriend's emotional abuse, must find strength she did not know she had when the boy she thought would be her savior begins beating her.

"In grade school, Darcy Wills and Brisana Meeks were friends. But all that changed at Bluford High when Darcy started hanging with "the zeros"--a group of students Brisana despises. Now the former friends are bitter rivals, and the tension between them is getting worse. For a while, Darcy tries to stay calm, ignoring her old friend's daily taunts. But when she learns that Brisana is after her boyfriend, Hakeem Randall, Darcy knows she must do something....

Discusses the devastating effect of the 1929 stock market crash on American economy and Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs to restore the nation's financial health.

Traces the life of the twenty-eighth president, from his childhood, through his years of extensive writing, to his terms as president and his involvement in the end of World War I and the founding of the League of Nations.

Loud talk precededshouting,and then shots rang out. One boy was lying on the sidewalk. Police were not saying so, but he appeared to be dead. At school on Monday, everyone at Tubman was talking about the Grant Street shooting. As far as anybody could tell, the victim was an innocent bystander.

Lydell Nelson Was a senior now, but hardly anyone in the class knew him. During lunch, he was always writing in a journal. Nobody ever bothered to ask him what he was writing, and he nevervolunteered any information.But when people tried to be friends, he just turned them away.

After a young girl is shot in what appears to gang-related violence, Jaris Spain decides to take a closer look and discovers a trail leading to another Tubman High School student, DeWayne Pike, who may be covering up something in his past.

When the school has a Princess of the Fair contest for a student embodying the qualities of Harriet Tubman, Jasmine Benson will stop at nothing to win.

Michelle gets more trouble than she bargained for when she befriends Damon, a lonely new student whose affection for Michelle turns dangerous.

When two high school pranksters turn up missing, Kathy fears that her good friend Todd, recently disfigured in an accident, may be responsible.