Fourteen-year-old Morgan alienates her friends and family when she spends all of her time online talking to strangers in various chat groups.

Encouraged by her close friends and a mystery supporter in cyberspace, Jamie decides to enter a contest to win an art camp scholarship despite her own lack of confidence in her artistic ability.

Alex is unhappy living with her mother's parents in Indiana while her mother and alcoholic father remain in Texas, and her life becomes more complicated when she uses her computer to act on her suspicions about her grandparents' new neighbor, w ho Alex is certain is a criminal.

After rescuing a litter of abandoned kittens from a dumpster, Morgan finds herself setting up an emergency animal shelter in her family's barn, without her parents' knowledge.

As fifteen-year-old Jamie becomes involved in the swim team and Special Olympics coaching, as part of her effort to fit in and be normal, she tries to remember to talk to God.

Because Bren feels she made a poor decision in the past, she finds it difficult to make choices on her own and turns to astrology for help.