Themes: High School Girls, Best Friends Forever, Growing Up, Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. A hurricane is heading for the Texas Gulf Coast. Brandi's parents make an early call: evacuate now. But Marisa's father decides to leave at the last minute. The Maldonados pay the price with crazy traffic and long gasoline lines. Shane's family decides to ride out the storm in Port City's biggest hotel. Will they live to regret it? The PCH novels are approximately 25,000 words — 200 Pages. Each story covers a semester and focuses on one of the three main characters., with swirling subplots involving the other girls. These best friends are determined to make the most of high school. And not get swallowed up.