Host Ira Glass talks with "Jim Steel," who tells a story about the social rules at his high school in Wisconsin.

Host Ira Glass talks to three teenage boys who buy computer equipment using stolen credit card numbers.

Danny Toro, a member of a Chicago street gang for ten years, explains what gangster movies he liked most in his gang years and why. Scarface, with Al Pacino, was a good movie to get him pumped up to go out with his boys. A Lucky Luciano film taught him a lesson in how to be more compassionate with members of his own gang.

In 1940, Jack Geiger, at the age of fourteen, left his middle-class Jewish home and knocked on the door of a black actor named Canada Lee. He asked Lee if he could move in with him.

A hemophiliac teenager who tries to set world records and to motocross.

Host Ira Glass talks to Amanda, who's 16 and lives with her mom in a Christian commune in Chicago.

Ira with 19-year-old Claudia Perez at a furniture store in Claudia's Mexican neighborhood.

Ron Carlson's short story.

Ira talks with a gang kid who turned to Jesus with the same ferocity and dedication with which he served his old street gang.

Why one teenager set fires and then stopped setting them. Paul Tough interview.

A 17 year old tricks an entire resort town into believing he is someone he is not. By Jack Hitt and Christopher Cerf.

Ira with a girl gang member about the day she nearly died.

Scott Carrier visits a courtroom where teenagers are tried and convicted by their teenage peers in Tucson, Arizona.

Kara instructs some of her male friends on the proper ways to treat a girl.

As high-school freshmen, Kim, Tiffany, and Laura were enamored of their fellow students who netted the leads in all the school plays. They're seniors now, and they're the ones landing all the lead roles.

The story of a woman whose husband lies to her compulsively. At some point, she starts to ask him questions that'll make him lie to her, just to amuse herself.

Host Ira Glass with some tape he recorded of a high school senior prom. Kids goof around in the car after the prom and get lost looking for a friend's house.