A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage ru...

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, t...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The kids were smoking secretly in a barn, set fire and fled. Feeling that the investigation closely,...

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding...

Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught betw...

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexuall...

A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome...

Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. W...

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in...

One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of he...

Before heading off to college, a teenager and her two friends try to seduce a married man.

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.

A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of th...

A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter ...

After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countrysid...