Not Acting My Age

Karla and her brother Jamie are spending a summer at their late uncle's cottage in Maine, and Karla can't cope with all the death ar...

I had picked up this book because I had had another book by Napoli ( Sirena ) recommended to me and the synopsis of this one actually looked...

The Alice series was one of the first YA books I read when I started my adult rediscovery of children's books.... The charming part of ...

Having enjoyed Multiple Choice , I looked up other tashjian books and found this one about dating violence. It's hard to read the book ...

Sometimes, there is too much of a good thing.... This is the story of a young woman sucked into the sphere of a Bad Boy, in a relationship t...

Another really good book (I seem to be doing better these days!). Life in upper class Manhattan for Virginia Shreves is a hell-hole of low s...

Gabby Weiss is stuck with a annoying older brother and a no friends at school, but worst of all, she has no mother, so she must spend her ti...

Finishing up the survey of Judy Blume (for now) with a really steamy entry... Forever is the story of Kath and Michael (and Ralph!) and th...

OK, so I give up on this one. The first book in the series was borderline, but my suspicions were bourne out in the second installment... T...

Elizabeth is a math whiz, with a penchant for wearing Victorian dresses, writing poetry, and imagining that she would be better off in the t...

Now, I venture into Christian-romance territory.... The first of a trilogy about angels, McDaniel's book is about Leah, a young woman wh...

OK, now we're in true classic territory in my survey of Judy Blume books. This is the story of Margaret Simon, daughter of a Jewish fath...

Wow. Hadn't read a good book in a while. I mean, I really good book. Multiple Choice is the story of Monica who suffers from obsessiv...

Having suffered through a mile case of scoliosis myself, I figured that I'd be able to relate to this story of a girl who has to go thro...

So, it's a classic. It won the Newbery in 1980 and a ton of awards. It's the story of Sara Louise, or "Wheeze" who grows...

This is a book in the American Girl Fiction series and, being part of that commercial line, I didn't have high hopes for it. However, i...

Set at the same High School as Anderson's Speak , this is a somewhat similar (but different) story about a high school girl who has hit ...

Continuing the survey of Judy Blume books.... This little book is a ways off of my usual. First of all, the character is a boy and he's...

I guess that I get so used to "issues" stories, that I forget that YA literature is full of simple beautiful stories about...well,...

Continuing my survey of Judy Blume novels... I actually read Blubber at the age of 12 or so but I don't remember much beyond the ending ...