Not Acting My Age

As a social experiment, after being home schooled for many years, Evie convinces her mother to let her attend public school for her final y...

Like the ungrammatical title of this novel, Retta has some rough edges, but she's got a dream and the talent to support it. She plans t...

Out in Washokey, Wyoming, everyone knows everyone else's business and life is as dull as it is usually portrayed in any stereotypical YA...

Mia has a number of issues: she's addicted to the rush she gets from shoplifting, her friends are beginning to give up on getting her t...

Penelope is bored with her ten year-old life and dying for an adventure, something more interesting than spending her days at home (more or ...

In this version of the future, girls get tattooed with an "XVI" on their wrist when they turn sixteen. This is used to signify th...

A new Sarah Dessen novel is a magical moment to be savored.... As much as I love Dessen's writing -- a beautiful combination of self-ref...

Lydia and Julie are a pair of fifth graders with the desire to become popular before they reach Junior High. To do so, they want to researc...

Ava has been dating Chloe for some time. Chloe is funny and sophisticated. Ava is awkward and shy, and feels insecure when she compares he...

How can I NOT read a book with this title? Clarity (or "Clare," as she prefers to be called) has the psychic ability to see the pa...

Hakiam is a boy from the projects. Wendy is a volunteer at a GED tutoring center. She's on her way to college (a traditionally white ...

Poppy has always dreamed about becoming a veterinarian, so when she gets the opportunity to spend the summer with her Uncle Sanjay and help ...

Mo and her Dad (along with her totally feral little sister Dottie) live on Fox Street. It's a cozy place with lots of wild critters, bu...

Grace and Lily are two penniless orphans attempting to survive in Victorian London. Grace is the youngest, but Lily suffers from a mental d...

At the age of sixteen, Kelle decides to leave her abusive father and go to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a professional mode...

In the near future, Nailer is a lucky boy. He's small enough to crawl inside of rusting old tankers to help salvage crews strip the wrec...

When Doug's father loses his job, he drags the family to Upstate New York, settles them in "the Dump" (as Doug calls it), and ...

When Ari starts at Hollister, her best friend Summer (who already goes there) isn't around to guide her, but she quickly befriends anoth...

Imagine if the bad boys (and girl) of early 19th century English Lit (Keats, the Shelleys, and Byron) were alive today, and if (instead of b...

Frances has lived her life so far (or rather, had it lived for her) in the name of her mother and her mother's needs. Couched in the te...