Not Acting My Age

Following the same formula as Breakfast with Tiffany , we have the story of Ros, who lost her two Moms to "a tragic accident involving ...

Leila's sister killed herself and now each family member must deal with the loss. For Leila, this means looking for a reason to explain ...

Thulani has lived in a child's world, caring only about the pigeons he keeps on the roof and dreaming of his long-gone mother. But when...

Annie loves to run and loves to draw. Through a series of prose poems, she describes her runs, the 100 apple drawings she has made, her gra...

Six years ago, Dilly's mother died, leaving her a place in the Adirondacks that she and her father return to every summer, reenacting ri...

Floey has always lived in the shadow of her popular older sister. But when her sister gets married and her Aunt drops off two bratty cousin...

In a series of 11 short stories, the authors explore the many various meanings of remaking ourselves and changing who we are. The highlight...

In a series of poems told by different people, three girls dish up the dirt on "T.L." -- a guy who knows all the right moves and b...

After years of struggling with muteness, Dora Cookson gets a chance to attend school for the first time. Kept back for four years, she has ...

Another adult lit book with a teen character.... When Nicky and her father find an abandoned baby in the woods behind their house, it trigge...

All of her 13 year life, Anna has had to be there to take care of her sister. In fact, this is the reason she exists: when Kate gets sick, ...

In a lyrical narrative, Georgia tell us about life with her grandparents, growing up in rural MS in the 1970s. About finding jesus, the tru...

Margot describes the highlights of her sixth year of school in Provence. From the harder grading, to the critical teachers, to her unsympath...

Addie is a pretty average 12 year-old and nowhere as bright as her friend Luke who is going away for a summer program for six weeks. But wh...

It's Summer in the Hamptons and Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui have been hired to look after the children of an excessively wealthy couple. Bu...

Sylvie lives in a fairy tale world -- a real fairy tale -- in fact, she lives within the pages of a book. When the book is closed, she'...

When the nice quiet Burton family in London gains custody of Sam, the son of Mrs. Burton's late sister, it's pretty obvious he doesn...

In ultra hip and trendy London, four young people take part in a summer staging of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . There's t...

In a series of anecdotes, Carolyn tells us about her neighbors, the pranks she plays with her brothers, and the trouble she gets in to. Som...

Julep has the most obnoxious little brother you could imagine, and an older sister with a heart of ice, and she knows that she's the mos...