Not Acting My Age

I'll be reviewing Dowell's latest book in a few weeks and thought I should go back and read some earlier ones. This particular one ...

After her father dies in a car accident ( how have I managed to end up with this whole series of books about teens grieving over death?) L...

Caitlyn struggles to get through life as it is. Suffering from Asperger's Syndrome, the only person around her who ever really Got It w...

After Julia is killed in a car accident, Colt has a need to grive. After all, the two of them were in a close intimate relationship for an e...

Samantha is part of a totally It clique -- four girls who rule the school and don't mind putting everyone else in their place. But after...

After the death of the baby who would have been Charlie's sister, her grieving Mom decides to make a full break of things, quit her job,...

It starts in the Caribbean as four teens (Jena, Skye, Dakota, and Owen) meet at a resort. While Dakota and Owen are brothers, the four of t...

Regina has enjoyed being part of Anna's top clique. Sure, it's involved plenty of dirty work -- helping Anna ruin the lives of other...

Essentially two separate stories loosely tied together, this is a novel about a freshman at Columbia named Very (short for Veronica) LeFreak...

When you're working 50-60 hrs/wk for your job and feeling the pressure, sometimes you really need to regress back to good middle reader,...

After her older brother Jack died, Rowan had to step up to keep her family together. Her mother had retreated into herself in grief, her fa...

Rebounding from getting dumped by her boyfriend, 16 year-old Mia is looking forward to spending the summer in the Hamptons with her aunt, un...

Alexis is a bit of a high school misfit with a reputation for causing trouble with her peers. Alexis's little sister Kasey is no better....

Note: Sometimes books hit my reading list as much because teens are reading them as that they are YA. This is one of those books. I would gu...

Lucy's Mom has been collecting and saving stuff over the past couple of years. What began as an aversion to throwing away stuff needles...

The book's title refers to what happens when you misuse a flash, causing a photograph to be overexposed and washed out. It's the pe...

Zeeta and her mother are wanderers. Just when Zeeta gets settled in one place, her Mom decides to pull up stakes and take them someplace els...

Sukie has a serious problem with narcissism. When she can't see her reflection, she will use her phone's camera to take a "self...

When Penny's lifelong crush crushes her heart, Penny swears that she is done with boys...at least until after high school is over. Curi...

Daelyn has decided that it's time to stop being a failure. This time she is determined that she will actually succeed...at killing hers...