Not Acting My Age

No setting is as tired and trite in YA literature as the boarding school.  Traditionally single-sex (and usually just boys) but nowadays c...

Astrid comes from a super rich family of not-very-nice people.  She isn't very nice either.  Her role model is her ornery grandfather,...

"Buds before studs" has always been Grace and Kya's motto -- never let guys (or anything else) get in the way of your friend...

It's really hard to be a kid when your mother is Isis and your father is the Lord of the Underworld.  Isadora's father is literall...

As Henry starts at a new school, he's worried about making a good strong first impression.  He's reminded of the trouble his older...

Allegra is the daughter of two professional musicians and, while musically talented, she longs to become a dancer.  When she enrolls at an...

When Eric's brother dies, he is the only member of the family to resist the idea of allowing the doctors to harvest useful organs.  Bu...

An unusual romance about what happens when two teens who both suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder fall in love.  It's an easy me...

Hit by the double blow of a father killed in action in the Middle East and a younger brother suffering from kidney disease, Jodie soothes ...

Carey and her little sister Janessa have eked out their survival in an old camper in the woods for years.  Their mother, usually strung ou...

Nicole is the most beautiful girl at school.  Therefore, jealousy seems like the most likely reason for the brutal assault in which half h...

In seven short stories, told in reverse chronological order, we get the inter-related tales of Eric and Melle, and the isolated northern ...

Out of the 1150 books that I've reviewed in this Blog so far, this is only the third Teen Harlequin I've read.  I've never exp...

Macallan and Levi have been friends since seventh grade and just that.  As a boy and a girl, they've endlessly been subjected to quest...

After a long absence, Verity Boone returns to her father's home in Catawissa Pennsylvania, in 1867.  She has been betrothed to a neigh...

Rebecca is on the verge of starting her freshman year at Columbia, studying architecture.  She has a premonition that things are not going...

Thirteen year-old Nate dreams of making it big on Broadway.  Not just for the fame, but for the chance to escape his small town Western Pe...

A wonderful middle reader fantasy about kids and grownups who have particular talents (whistling, disappearing, baking, etc.) and a surrea...

Annie is excited about her new job as a nanny in San Francisco.  She'll be able to attend classes at SF State, live in a fabulous hous...

Sophronia is the type of girl to drive a mother mad.  Unlike her older sisters who managed to become proper young ladies, Sophronia is alw...