Crisis

When her father seems unable to stop drinking, Ellen decides to attend an Alateen meeting to help her cope with his alcoholism and her reactions to it.

Sent by his tribe to Los Angeles to get more schooling, a young Navajo finds it difficult to adjust to the initial hostility of his new environment.

Mary Lou's secret of having a retarded sister threatens to be revealed and ruin her carefully constructed social life.

Dealing with his twin brother's death is almost impossible for John until he meets a young pickpocket at the zoo.

At first Larry is uncomfortable attending a new high school where he is one of only six black students.

A young girl tries everything she can think of to reach the withdrawn five-year-old Vietnamese orphan her family has adopted.

To keep the family off welfare after his father's death, Tim decides to quit high school and get a job.

Hospitalized for a mysterious cause, sixteen-year-old Cheryl discovers that she has leukemia and tries to come to terms with the implications of her illness.

Permanently paralyzed by a football injury, Steve must learn to develop new interests which will give him hope for the future.