Not Acting My Age

[Gotta get that 100th review in tonight....] Vitiligo is a rare autoimmune disease that attacks the pigment of the skin and causes patch...

At the start of her sophomore year, Celia (like so many heroines of YA novels) is something of a wallflower at Suburban High.  But, out of...

Sarah's father has a dream to unite New England, the Confederate States of America, and the free territories of Astoria in a last-ditc...

Friday has never felt rooted in any one place.  Years of living on the road and in the bush with her nomadic mother ensured as much.  But ...

Nina has always been happy with her flower garden and her quiet life in Samana, on the coast of the Dominican Republic.  But after her mot...

Eve is an "echo" - a clone of a living person -- created and stored at a sufficiently remote distance for the sole purpose of se...

Any book that significantly name drops my alma mater Simon's Rock deserves a special shout out, even if a main character disses the s...

Nearly thirteen, Ava is turning into a swan.  But, while the phrase may be metaphorical for most girls, for Ava it's quite literal.  S...

While babysitting five-year-old Humphrey, Danielle loses sight of him for a moment, he runs into the street, and is fatally struck by a ca...

A girl finds herself walking down the street with no memory of her immediate circumstances.  Someone has died and she must get away!  Voic...

Graham and Ellie met completely by accident when Graham mistyped the address of an email and reached Ellie instead of his pig sitter.  By ...

In the midst of serving as a medic in war-torn Afghanistan, Ben recalls the events surrounding the violent death of his friend Jimmy back ...

Sixteen and pregnant, Kia is faced with the most difficult set of decisions in her life.  And while she has the support of her family, a s...

My Alma Mater (Vassar) has contributed a fair number of YA writers to the world (most notably Emily Jenkins/E Lockhart). Here comes a new ...

It's the Turn of the Century and Velvet is sure that her fortunes are about to change.  She ekes out a living in London as a laundress...

Ten years ago, Justine and four other kindergartners were placed around a table and interviewed on film in what was to become Five at Six ...

In her last summer before college, Emaline has a lot of decisions to make.  Living in the small coastal town of Colby, there aren't to...

It's twenty years in the future and the world is socially and geographically segregated much more clearly into rich and poor.  The poo...

Two years ago, Ellis's father was injured on the job and fell into a coma.  He's never woken up.  Every day, when Ellis isn't ...

In this long-overdue sequel to Princess Academy , Miri and the girls of Mount Eskel have come to the capital Asland to help their Britta p...