Not Acting My Age

It's a memorable day for Julie when two Mongolian boys show up unannounced at her school.  While they struggle with the language, the ...

With Lucy's older sister going away to College, Lucy is psyched to be getting their room to herself.  She's also looking forward t...

Jesse is a rebel and an outcast, from the huge fisherman's boots she wears to the angry manifestos she posts on the walls at school.  ...

Upon graduating from high school, Colby knows exactly what he's going to do for the next year:  go on a short tour up the West Coast w...

For the past five years, Lizzie has been struggling with coming to terms with the death of her older sister.  As children, the two girls w...

Rafe Khatchadorian has an amazing imagination and a deep fear of sixth grade.  To get through it, he (and his friend Leo) have come up wit...

Ella has an esteem problem, exacerbated by the burns she got on her shoulder when she was younger (and prompted by being a teen).  She sp...

Jody's a bit obsessed with Jackson Gatlin, lead singer of The Regulators.  So, nothing's going to stop her from seeing them in con...

Every year, a list appears at Mount Washington high school.  No one knows who creates it.  The list simply appears one morning, attached t...

There are only a few things that Heidi knows for certain:  she has incredible luck (winning every time she plays the slots, for example), ...

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'...