Not Acting My Age

Back in seventh and eighth grades, Maggie was the victim of a series of bullying incidents.  Years later, in high school, she is still ter...

Mo and Annie have been friends (and only friends!) for years.  For different reasons (Annie's loss of her older sister and Mo's st...

Mila, an unusually insightful teen, likens herself at the beginning of this novel to a terrier -- both in her ability to discern peoples t...

Lavender is a gawky nerd, comfortable in her skin, but still a magnet for abuse from her classmates.  She's the complete opposite of S...

One summer on the Jersey shore, when Skye is looking for something new, she meets Seth and a new love is born.  They have a variety of mis...

The curse of the Scarborough women was lifted in Werlin's earlier novel, Impossible , but Fenella Scarborough is still imprisoned.  Wh...

Cricket has had a pretty rough life.  Eight years in an orphanage in northern Maine have given him a home.  As the oldest resident, he tak...

Every year, the seniors in Mr. Kinney's class write a journal in which they describe their hopes for their future, seal their writings...

Colette is planning on taking her friends along with her for a fun-filled summer in Paris, but then her mother announces that she's ju...

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...