Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.

When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize puppies.

Enduring a difficult existence in the woods with her younger sister and the mentally ill mother who abducted them, Carey is found by her father and thrust into a new world that is overshadowed by a secret about her sister's silence.

As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.

Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing dinner parties for their friends, and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation.

In Manhattan, in 1900, the Holland sisters and other socialites fight each other, face off over men, and rail against the strict rules of society.

When the three Babcock sisters travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments, they uncover an incomprehensible betrayal within their family.

After their father returns unexpectedly, Gem organizes a short trip with her sister Dixie in order to avoid him.

When her mother enters her and her twin sister as debutantes for this year's deb season in Dallas, soccer star Megan McKnight is furious. She has no interest the dress-filled life of a socialite, but her season turns out to be one full of twists and turns - and more than one dashing suitor!