Not Acting My Age

Rose and her father travel across Australia, rarely settling down for long.  So when they come to the town of Leonora, she figures that th...

Something is rotten at MacHale, an elite boarding school outside of the town of Forsyth, Maine.  During winter term, the students are stag...

In modern-day Iran, homosexuality is a capital offense.  That makes the love that Nasrin and Sahar share a very dangerous situation.  Grow...

Since her father died in a fire, Mila has struggled with piecing back together her life.  She and her mother have moved to a horse ranch i...

Brendan is a tough wrestler with a tough wrestling girlfriend, but he harbors a secret:  he's always been more comfortable around girl...

A year has passed since Jane was attacked by the shark, losing her arm in the process.  While the immediate aftermath of that was told in ...

When Lily announces that she's planning to get married to dorky nincompoop Burton, her three little sisters - Dawn, Darby, and Delaney...

When the rain begins to fall, young Sebah just thinks that they have come early this year.  But as the rain turns to flood, she finds hers...

Eliza's arrival in London starts off badly: nearly immediately she is tossed in prison for theft.  Through a series of struggles and s...

She always thought that girls with eating disorders who starved themselves to death were dumb.  Yet, when she sees her father abandon her ...

Meg and her family are in Witness Protection and have been relocated six times in the past ten months.  Each time, they are forced to assu...

Minty and her friend Paz love to roller skate.  They dream of becoming roller derby stars together.  And while their older sisters warn th...

Five sophomores struggle through family difficulties.  While the specific details of their obstacles differ (and encompass some pretty hea...

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...