An Avon/Flare book

Eighteen-year-old Dylan faces painful changes brought on by his father's terminal illness.

An honor student and a high school "clown" are increasingly attracted to each other, though the ensuing gossip threatens their relationship.

At loose ends the summer their parents separate, fourteen-year-old twins open and operate a restaurant with the help of their friends.

Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive.

Contents: Agatha Christie – The Lamp Guy de Maupassant – Nerves John Collier – Thus I Refute Beelzy Algernon Blackwood – Keeping His Promise Andre Maurois – The House Louis Golding – The Call of the Hand W. Wilkie Collins – The Dream Woman H. G. Wells - The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham Neil Bell – The Strange Occurrences Connected with Captain John Russell Margaret Irwin – The Book Bram Stoker – Dracula’s Guest John B. L. Goodwin – The Cocoon Pamela Hansford Johnson – The Empty Schoolroom

When city officials try to close down the local video parlor because they think it is less than beneficial for the children, the young people of the town form Video, a protest group.

An eleven-year-old girl describes her life and relationship with her mother who has never married.