Not Acting My Age

Chelsea likes to have the dirt on folks and she loves good gossip.  That is, until she catches Noah and another guy in flagrante delicto ...

Paul Fisher may be legally blind, but he notices a lot of things around him. He sees the way that the ospreys steal the koi out of the art...

Liliya, Kat, and Mary have all suffered injustices.  In each case, the source of their suffering is caused by the cruelty of a specific pe...

Rafe has been out of the closet for years.  The kids at school in Boulder know about him, his parents are super supportive, and his best f...

After Becky Randle's mother dies, she receives a surprise message to contact Tom Kelly (the world's preeminent fashion designer). ...

Natalie has learned a lot in her first three years of high school.  She's seen the way that when boys and girls get into trouble, it...

In his senior year, Peter's family decides to host a Lithuanian exchange student named Gobi.  They knew it would be an interesting cul...

When Kelsey starts ninth grade, she's committed to the idea that this is the year that she is finally going to step out.  She has her...

Six teens get trapped at their high school when the Zombie Apocalypse starts.  Even before the kids have managed to secure the entrances a...

When Jimmer returns home at the end of the summer, his buddies are desperate to find out where he's been.  He claims he was at his Aun...

When Adrienne injures her knee right before the summer begins, her plans to go canoeing with her best friend are ruined.  Instead, she...

As my ardent followers know, I rarely find a book that I consider perfect, and anytime I do find a four-star book, it is major news.  Inst...

When Zoe's mother drops her off at the Twin Birch facility, she won't explain why she is doing so.  But Zoe quickly realizes that ...

After Lexi's father dies, she is thrown out on the street with only a rough sense of where to find her estranged mother.  Mom, it seem...

Aiko tries to keep a low profile.  Her cerebral palsy gives her a limp and a stiff arm, which she doesn't like people noticing.  But p...

When a talent scout accosts Ted and her sister on a London street and tells her that she could have an amazing future in modeling, Ted fir...

When Shelby's mother was dying, she asked her daughter to promise her three things:  to listen to and love her father, to love as much...

Farrah may be stuck with an awful name by her seventies-TV-junkie mother, but it's her brilliance at math that's earned her the mu...

An Indian-American girl from New York City becomes pen pals with a boy from the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky.  Through letters back a...

When Sadie fails to get accepted to a special writer's camp for the summer, it ruins her plans.  Not only that, but it means six weeks...