The kid table is a story about a poker table that has been with the family for a while now. All 5 of Ingrid Bell's cousins sit at it even though they are teenagers. All 5 cousins are struggling to with the challenges of growing up. Ingrid falls in love just to find out that he is already taken by her cousin! Her cousin decides to leave the kid table and leaves the cousins in shock. They all take different paths into adulthood and realize the kid table is where they belong.
This is a story about a girl Emma, whose last name is Freke. She hates her name and how she looks. She feels like a freak. She is freakishly tall has freckles and orange hair. She knows nothing about her father or his family. Then one day she receives and invitation to the Freke family reunion and that's when everything changed.
The Hard Kind of Promise by Gina Willner-Pardo is about a girl Sarah who promises to be best friends forever with Marjorie. The only problem is that she promised this when they were young and now Sarah and Marjorie like different things. Sarah tries her best to be friends with Marjorie, but they are just to different. Will she be able to keep her promise? This is a story about friendship and how hard it can be.
A poor Bostoian girl (Stephanie) is abusied by her and then abandoned. Her father tries his best to care for her but it is to painful because she reminds him of her mother. He thinks it's best for her to send her to California. But when Stephanie gets caught up in the lies she made to impress her new friends everything goes wrong. She learns it's best to tell the truth if you want to know who your true friends are.
