Not Acting My Age

Elliott has suffered a double whammy:  his best friend and his father are both killed within three weeks of each other in separate acciden...

Isla and her father bond in the early morning hours over following the migration of the swans.  They tirelessly trudge after the birds, tr...

"The universe has not been kind to Auggie Pullman," says one of his friends.  And, at first glance, that is true.  August has a ...

When the rotation of the Earth suddenly begins to slow down, the effects are initially subtle but ultimately cataclysmic.  Every day grows...

Told in two distinct separate narratives (separated by a half-century), this is the story of Nell, the granddaughter of a village healer, ...

Nina Khan struggles with the things that other girls like her in High School do (getting good grades, avoiding social gaffes, getting noti...

Sabriel's father, Abhorsen, is the man charged with preventing the dead from returning to the land of the living.  Sabriel, still a te...

In a series of letters to an anonymous recipient, Charlie writes about his discoveries and fears during his first year of high school.  He...

Today, I hit a major milestone on my blog:  My one thousandth review.  It's a bit like the social media equivalent of becoming a million...

Amber House, the ancestral home of Sarah's mother's family, just off the Chesapeake Bay, is a complete unknown to Sarah.  She'...

Ever Davies has a weight problem.  At over 302 lbs, she feels completely out of control of her body.  She's subject to the usual taunt...

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...