These high-interest novels feature characters in situations encountered by real-life teens everyday. The student body of Dawson High study hard, date, root for the home team, hold down part-time jobs, succeed and fail, just like most American teenagers. Characters are faced with tough choices- and must decide and react based on their principles. However, choices are complicated and learning to do the right thing is almost never easy.

5 Softcover 40-page novels include:
•Break All Rules
•Broken Promise
•Don't Get Caught
•Friend or Foe?
•Pay Back

Resource Guides
The Teacher's Resource CD's provide 10 reproducible pages per novel. The guides also emphasize life strategies such as being proactive, defining a mission, working together, and more.
The reproducible activity pages give struggling students the tools and strategies to construct, extend, and examinne the meaning of each novel.