Davey made sex a condition of his friendship with Karen in Three Sisters.

Up in Seth's Room deals with whether or not Finn and Seth will have a sexual relationship.

Eve Bunting's Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies deals with a class project to teach responsibility by requiring two girls to carry bags of sugar everywhere they go just as Davey and Karen carried Eggbert and Gladys Goldfish in order to learn family responsibility.

These girls are younger than the girls in Three Sisters and are just beginning to become very interested in boys.

In the process of writing a letter to Bill in Dear Bill, Remember Me?, a girl keeps rewriting as she comes to terms with her feelings about him and an understanding of what their relationship was. This is a short story about a girl with a crush on a young man.

Although the three...