Not Acting My Age

Glass may be very fragile (forming cracks at an incredibly high speed if dropped), but it is also very durable (taking a million years to br...

Years ago, when they were kids, Josh and Maddie were close friends. When Maddie moved away, she promised that she would stay in touch. The...

It is rare for a book to shine new light on a tired topic. And what could be more tired in kidlit than death and grieving? Aubrey loses her ...

After three years of traipsing around economically-depressed sections of Canada, Cheryl is fed up. She misses her home and friends in Montr...

After a lifetime of sexual abuse from her father, Sarah hates having her picture taken. When Sarah's mother's boyfriend tries to ta...

After years of watching his father beat up his mother, Jace finally stands up and hits him back. As a result, his Dad throws him out of the ...

When Delia's mother disappears in Antarctica and is presumed dead, Delia is sent to live with her eccentric aunt Charley in New York Cit...

In this sequel, two years have passed since the flooding of London from global warming. Laura's parents have moved to the country but L...

In this twenty-fifth installment of the Alice series (Wow! It's hard to believe the sheer stamina of this project!), Alice is finally e...

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...