Not Acting My Age

Clara has developed a restlessness at home. She feels distant from her friends and she finds herself drawn to wander outside after dark. B...

In the aftermath of her best friend Ingrid's suicide, Caitlin feels aimless, drifting through her junior year. A new friend Dylan and a...

Kendra has been going through a lot in recent months. Recollections of childhood sexual abuse have begun to appear out of suppressed memori...

As her father is dropping her off at Kenyon to start her freshman year, Cecily suddenly reaches a moment of intense clarity that she doesn...

When 14 year-old Maureen is "inappropriately touched" in the back of a school bus by her three best friends, the story of what rea...

Ok, so I'll have to admit that between this book's title and its cover, my manhood felt a bit too threatened to read it in public. ...

Dani has always struggled to get through life with her defective heart. When it finally gives out, she is lucky enough to receive a new one...

After an environmental cataclysm nearly floods England, the UK decides to pioneer austere carbon rationing in an attempt to counter the effe...

After her stepfather dies, Zara gets sent by her mother to live in Maine with her grandmother. On her way there, she notices that a strange ...

Peters has become one of the leaders in LGBT YA literature and in this novel she probes the dark territory of physical abuse within teen les...

This is the third book in a series (I reviewed My Sister's Wedding and My Summer Vacation in previous entries) and represents somethin...

Three generations of women from the same family, each one telling her story as a teenager, separated from the others by 15-16 years. Each o...

In something of the quirky tradition of YA buddy novels like Stargirl , this is the story of a new girl in town (Bea) who befriends an outca...

Katie lives in a troubled family. Her mother is an alcoholic and her father is overbearing (and ironically also a psychotherapist). As her o...

Because her parents have embarked on a trip to Afghanistan to film a documentary, Viola gets dumped at a private school in South Bend IN. I...

S'up dog? Sometimes you have to go off the deep end and read a book from the other side... Carter is 14, mildly handicapped by ADHD and...

Picking up a few months after My Sister's Wedding ended, this sequel continues the story of Maddie Hickman's struggles with family ...

Samara and her father, the pastor at a local church, have a fair share of problems to cope with. Sam's mother, whose always managed to ...

Austin is tired of being picked on by Dean Ottmer. In the midst of watching the annual No-Jesus Christmas Parade, she comes to a realizatio...

Madeline Hickman reads a lot of self-help book. In some other story, Maddie's obsession might be the cause for some amusement, but when...