Not Acting My Age

Samantha struggles with a father's drinking problem and her mother's denial of it.  And in addition to those extraordinary issues,...

Keara is about to have her 12th name day and when young people turn twelve in her world, they are obligated to present their companion ...

Thirteen year-old Miles is short for his age and even his best friend Phelps thinks he's a freak.  Miles cares, but he'd still rat...

Sebastian lives in a large geodesic dome in Iowa with his eccentric grandmother, herself an acolyte of R. Buckminster Fuller.  Sebastian...

Back when Gittel was nine, she lost her friend Devorah to suicide.  And while the adults claimed that the event was unfathomable and inexp...

In the first and second books in the series, Larry (a.k.a. Josh Swenson) saved the world and tried to get elected as POTUS.  How do you to...

Thom is a pretty amazing basketball player and that's been the thing he's relied upon to make his father proud.  His father is a l...

Fleming spends the summer stuck at home, helping her pregnant mother take care of her three brothers and sisters.  She's lost her driv...

Jason has his doubts about religion.  Despite his parents' efforts to keep him on the straight and narrow by sending him to a teen rel...

Inspired by the true story of the author's grandparents, Rinaldi writes about how a rich silk merchant from Brooklyn courted a fifteen...

In Mary's village, no one has ever questioned the Sisterhood's claim that nothing lies beyond the fence except for zombie-like ...

Hallie's got a good head for numbers.  She likes to use the skill for making money at race tracks and playing poker games.  What she d...

After June kills herself, her younger sister Harper and Harper's best friend Laney decide to steal June's cremains and take them t...

Mackenzie is prone to awkward moments, but when she accidentally knocks over a burly hockey player and then tries to administer CPR to him...

Shelley and her mother are mice -- nice people who try not to be in anyone's way.  But instead of avoiding trouble, they seem to invi...

In 1896, Clara Estby and her mother undertook a mission to walk alone (and with no money) across the United States from Spokane to New Yor...

In verse from her diary, Marcie tells the story of the year her dad left them for a boyfriend and she ended up spending half the year in N...

When Liz gets selected to varsity tennis at the beginning of her junior year, she considers herself pretty lucky to have been chosen ahead...

Chap has been living on the street for some time.  He's never really known where he came from or who his parents are, but it looks lik...

With her mother in a mental hospital, Alice has been trying to keep things together at home: pay the bills, take care of the house, and ke...