Not Acting My Age

Nine tenth-grade students in an urban high school in Los Angeles are taking Ms Hart's creative writing class. To get them thinking abou...

In the midst of the Depression, eleven year-old Turtle and her mother struggle to get by. And so, when Mom finds work as a housekeeper for ...

Cat is a brilliant science student. She's just completed an internship on insects and is hoping to spin that work into an science fair ...

Best known for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Ann Brashares ventures into strikingly different territory with this broadly-s...

Bronwen has always had trouble feeling wanted. She can't manage to communicate with her mother. Her stepfather, while nicer, has never...

After screwing up one time too many, Sydney's mother gives up on trying to control the girl and ships her off to her father. Dad has his...

In this mixture of YA angst and supernatural powers, April, May, and June are three sisters (named after the months in which they were born ...

One day Georgia finds a flyer posted on the wall calling for teen volunteers to go down to Anapra (a squatter's village outside of Juare...

This sequel to The Secret Language of Girls picks up pretty much where the former left off. Kate and Marilyn are entering seventh grade. ...

In this unusual mixture of supernatural and hard gritty urban reality, Jem is the daughter of a heroine addict whose been kicked around her ...

Sixteen years ago, Paul (the boy who got Josie's mother pregnant) moved away without a second thought. It was hard on her mother to rais...

One day, Nell and her brothers find a baby squirrel lying in their back yard. Its mother has abandoned it and the kids decide to rescue it ...

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...