Not Acting My Age

Zel is a retelling of the story of Rapunzel, told from the perspective of the girl, her suitor, and her mother, attempting to explain the m...

Tara is pretty, popular, and smart. She has friends and a family who love her. But everytime she walks to school, she has to count all the...

Aimee commits suicide, and her friend blames herself for helping her do it. So do Aimee's parents and the police. And once the trial i...

Sirena is a siren, a mermaid. She and her sisters sing songs to lure sailors in, because they have been handed a promise (and curse) that i...

Hannah still likes to play with dolls, make snow sculptures with her Dad, and braid her long hair. And being only in 5th grade, she feels t...

OK, so I'm going to have to break from tradition and skimp on the plot description a bit here, because there isn't much I can give a...

A short break from the book reviews to list out my favorite books (not all of which are reviewed here). These really are stunning books that...

Laurel loves animals, but doesn't have the greatest of luck with keeping them alive. However, she works hard to do what she can to bree...

Maggie doesn't want to do dissections. At first, it is because she doesn't want to touch the worm she is supposed to dissect, but a...

The first of a trilogy of books, Make Lemonade is the story of LaVaughn and her babysitting job taking care of two children or a teenage mo...

Leap Day is a pretty much a by-the-numbers story of a girl turning 16 and what she does on her birthday. Each chapter covers about two hou...

Again, it's nice to intersperse the tough teen books with something lighter. Claudia Mills is a recent discovery and Perfectly Chelsea ...

Like, totally cool. Cohn has the whole kid talk down utterly, you know? Gingerbread is the story of Cyd Charisse and her trip back East t...

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...