Not Acting My Age

In this YA classic, Jessica (granddaughter of the namesake of the title) hates her mother for driving her father away, and when she gets the...

Perhaps better titled as "this is what I didn't do," this is a story about a boy named Logan who is incapable of doing anythin...

Phoebe has managed on her farm in Maine just fine, taking pictures and telling fairy tales to the animals. It's true that she's had...

OK, back to the reviews.... It's been a year or so since Alice, I Think left off, but in this sequel, Alice McLeod is still muddling th...

Not a book review, but more of a request to folks reading my BLOG: while I don't mind having comments on my posts (and in fact, I would...

I haven't had a chance to read much lately, but I did mange to get this slim novel in... Ana is the princess of Prantarr, but when a nat...

Georgia is dealing with a distant father (and a dead mother), chronic heartburn, and a friend who is experimenting with drugs. On a more pos...

A fictionalized account of the early life of Mary Shelley, the novel traces Mary's life from her acquaintance with Percy Shelley to his ...

Millie and her mother relocate and find love, although her mother's boyfriend ends up being a better choice (mentoring Millie in photogr...

At the turn of the century, Lydian Wentworth, after the death of her overbearing father, receives an invitation to visit the reclusive Arthu...

Matt (short for Matilda) has been passed from one relative to another, never quite working out wherever she's been. The experience has m...

In this sequel to Vegan Virgin Valentine , we've come a long way. V has been (barely) surviving living with her grandparents, trying to ...

In some ways Lopi (short for Penelope) has it all together. She's managed to shave a year off of high school and will graduate early th...

Nick's family faces a series of challenges: illness, separation, isolation, and alcoholism (to name a few). What makes the family diff...

In this third installment of the Books of Bayern, the war is over but emotions still run hot - especially in Tira. An embassy from Bayern m...

Martha has a lot of troubles to deal with. She's one of the few whites at her inner city school and been singled out for bullying. But n...

After a fall down the stairs at school, Naomi loses her memory - not all of it, just the last four years. And in that refreshed state (where...

In flashback, Ibtisam tells the story of her growing up as a Palestinian refugee after the Six-Day War of 1967. On one side, it is an extra...

Every year, the school's unofficial Shadow Council would select a student in the Lottery to become the "dud" of the year, cond...

When Izzy loses half a leg in a car accident, she goes through all of the usual stages of grief (anger, tears, etc.), but it takes her a whi...