Nine stories for young adult readers about girls of every age, shape, and size, who are learning that the world is not a simple place and that there is more than one way to live.

Katani tries to juggle the demands of school work and a Think Pink fundraiser while working on her submission for a contest for young entrepreneurs held by "T-Biz" magazine and worrying that her competitor, Betsy, will write a better essay due to the growing p

Ruth and her sister Lucille are cared for by Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother. They attempt to keep house as the forces of nature erode their stronghold.

Mona Chang, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, fully embraces the ideals of freedom and converts to Judaism in the first of many rebellions she stages in her search for individualism while growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.