Not Acting My Age

Laura has always been fascinated by the Russians -- their murderous history, crazy rulers, and forbidding landscape.  So, it is a dream-co...

When Sugar and her mother lose their home and end up on the streets, it would be easy to feel down and lose hope, but Sugar is as sweet as...

At the end of At the Sign of the Sugared Plum (reviewed here a few weeks ago), Hannah and her sister have escaped the Plague in London.  ...

Bored sophomore Holly thinks she's being cute when she re-writes a column for the school newspaper that she's copyediting.  But li...

Elysia has been created (cloned from the body of a recently deceased girl) to be a servant in the utopia of Demesne.  She is also a rare a...

In 1665, farm girl Hannah comes to London to assist her sister run a sweetmeats shop.  She is excited to live in such a great city and has...

  It's an unusual story about lovers who aren't, not least of all because he's 22 and she's only 15.  Amelia struggl...

Julia is a hyper-organized, straight-A student who's always followed the rules.  She's got a clear sense of how things are suppose...

Carson Phillips could be described as "majorly cynical" without fear of overstatement.  He invariably has a biting comment to sh...

In the summer between their junior and senior years, Scilla and her best friend Willow are aimlessly trying to escape their lives. There i...

A few weeks after her twin brother Jack is killed in a car accident, Jocelyn receives a letter from "Jason December." This comes...

Sawyer spends much of his time being the subject of other people's plans.  His parents know where he'll go to college and what he...

On the first day of school, Lucy pledges herself to her boyfriend Alex whom she hasn't seen all summer.  But it doesn't go well.  ...

In the exotic setting of the expatriot community of Buenos Aires, Tessa and her friends live fun, but dangerous lives of parties in seedy ...

The "me" of the title is Greg Gaines, an angry neurotic Jewish kid with self-loathing issues (think Eminem meets an Annie Hall -...

[Note:  I've been on the road for the past two weeks, so haven't had an opportunity to post my reviews, but I have been reading so ...

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...