Fourteen-year-old Stephanie runs away from her dreary industrial Pennsylvania town to be a model in New York. Instead she meets an expensively-dressed man who puts her to work for him.
Unknowingly descended from a line of seal folk, fifteen-year-old Marian living on a remote North Sea island finds herself spellbound by a mysterious white whale.
Thirteen-year-old Brian describes life with his young mother and his two brothers in a run-down section of Boston, and his adventures with a young man who seems almost a third brother.