Not Acting My Age

When Rachel finds out that her little sister Miri is a witch (and that her Mom is too), her first thought is how amazingly unfair it is that...

When Sadie's family is forced to sell their home and travel in search of a new life at the height of the Depression, Sadie hopes the cha...

Harley think she may be adopted [didn't we just read that two books back?] and it would explain how her eye color differs from the rest ...

Holland Jaeger is the senior class president, on her way to majoring in pre-law at Stanford, and the apple in the eye of her mother. She da...

Fern has been convinced for most of her life that she was raised by the wrong parents. They are dull and boring while Fern is certainly not...

Miles Halter comes to Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama with few friends and fewer regrets. His great accomplishment so far is his...

Josie and her Mom travel to the Ozarks to attend Great-Grandma Ola's funeral. Josie never met Ola when she was alive, but now she wants...

Belle Teal is growing up in the South in the late Fifties. Her grandmother is going senile and her mother is studying at secretarial school...

Taeyoung is a very self-conscious eighth-grader, but she has reason to be so, as one of only two Korean-Americans in her school. She copes ...

Bridget is a Traveller, a group of modern day nomads who travle in trailers, making a living largely by ripping people off and then moving o...

Atalanta is a divinely-blessed huntress and athlete, accompanying Jason and his Argonauts on hunts and a favored mortal of the Goddess Artem...

In a series of short, poetic passages, Appelt tells the story of her childhood, growing up in Houston with a father who went to Arabia to es...

Caitlin's life on the island is fairly quiet. She goes out drinking with her friend Bill and she dreads the return of her older brother...

Anastasia loves lists and she's creating a list of things she loves and things she hates. There are lots of things to classify: her so...

Nina and her mother Joyce never seem to spend very much time in the same place. That was fun when Nina was younger, but lately she's be...

When Benji dies, Bridget doesn't know how to rebuild her life. They weren't even dating by the time he was killed, but that hardly ...

When Clover runs off and disappears, Memphis becomes something of a suspect. And it is true that Memphis and Clover had a fight in which Me...

Chloe is a teenage animal rights activist. And when she meets jock football-playing Brett, it's a case of opposites attract. But event...

Esperanza has a beautiful life as the privileged daughter of a wealthy Patron in Aguascalientes Mexico in the 1920s. But then her father is...

When Mom gets sick (drinking bottles of vodka after bottles of vodka) and no longer takes care of the kids, eldest daughter Katherine tries ...