Not Acting My Age

For her 16th birthday, Kayla's mother insists on throwing a huge sweet sixteen bash, complete with a DJ and a huge pink cake. Kayla, ho...

In my mind, Meg Cabot always does it best, but don't fault a new author (particular the daughter of Regis Philbin) from trying to cash i...

Lou is a painfully shy, but intellectually precocious girl. Having skipped two grades, she's considerably younger than her classmates, b...

A book this complicated is tricky to summarize, but in an odd way, the book's cover (with its simple image of a dead leaf) somehow manag...

When Zoe's mother and father separate, her Mom decides to pull up stakes and leave WA and relocate Zoe, her sister Nelia, and little br...

When 17 year-old Fern is left an orphan after her mother dies, Fern makes the decision to lie about her age and just take care of herself. ...

When Ames's father loses his job and the family loses their home, they pull up stakes and relocate from Colorado to Texas. It's a h...

Jack has a fairly major obsession with breasts, but when he learns that his friend Leah is planning to get a boob job for her sixteenth birt...

When Zitlally's father gets deported back to Mexico, she finds comfort in taking care of an abandoned dog in a junkyard. And while her ...

Lily and Bailey were best friends before Lily and her Mom moved away. Lily is having trouble making new friends and misses the secret hidin...

Lucy never knew that her mother had a twin sister until she was thirteen, when Aunt Helen showed up at her door. Aunt Helen and Lucy's ...

In this sequel to And Then Everything Unraveled , Delia has started the search for her mother. This quickly leads to complications: the cl...

With a title like this, you'd probably be expecting a werewolf book, but this is actually non-fantasy lit. It's the story of KJ Car...

When they were in Kindergarten, Sarah and Marjorie made a promise to each other to always be best friends. For many years, that's what ...

Violet has a supernatural ability to sense dead humans and animals, but only if they have been killed. And she also has the ability to sens...

As someone who never caught the Harry Potter bug, the Hunger Games series has been a significant literary event. The first book impressed m...

Will Grayson's best friend Tiny Cooper is "the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayes...

Having to start eighth grade with your genius seven-year-old sister taking your classes with you is pretty bad. Add to it your amazingly ne...

Four sisters take turns recounting their eventful and pivotal sixteenth years. It starts with Rose, who wants to pursue a career on the sta...

Amy's family is falling apart. Her father is dead. Her brother is in drug rehab. Mom has moved across the country, leaving Amy alone ...