High School Confidential Diary #6

When her father introduces her to Anne, the woman he plans to marry, Milly's world shatters—convinced he's betraying the memory of her mother, who passed away five years ago, she pulls away from both of them in anger and hurt. As days of cold silence stretch through their home, a chance encounter with a classmate and his earnest affection helps Milly see what her father has been trying to tell her: that love and life don't stand still, and that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting what came before.

Helen Mo-Chan has spent her life on the farm feeling alone, longing for the affection her adoptive parents never seemed to show—until the arrival of a new hired hand named Alan Crane stirs something awakening in her heart. When their budding romance is threatened by a dangerous misunderstanding, Helen and Alan must navigate a night of fear and pursuit that will force both her foster parents and the boy she loves to reveal what they've hidden all along. A tender 1961 story about discovering that love was there all the time, waiting to be recognized.

A sixteen-year-old girl working a summer job falls hard for Keith Mason, a charming older man at the office, and ignores her concerned friend Danny's warnings that she's playing with fire. When Keith takes her to a nightclub on the edge of town, a police raid exposes her real age—and reveals that the man she thought was so sophisticated will abandon her the moment things get dangerous. By the story's end, she's learned a painful lesson about growing up too fast and recognizing who truly has her back.

Kay, the high school newspaper editor, is determined to uncover scandal in the life of Ricky Morse, the squeaky-clean teen-age idol who recently died in a car accident—convinced that no boy could be as virtuous as everyone claims. Driven by bitterness from past heartbreaks, she digs into his carefully guarded private life, tracking down his former manager and investigating mysterious fresh flowers that appear daily at his grave. What Kay discovers about the real Ricky Morse may change everything she thought she knew about him—and about herself.