Not Acting My Age

The injuries that Hayley's father received in the war are only partly physical.  Rather, it is the psychic traumas, the ones that can...

One evening, in her home above her parent's antique shop in a small bayou town in Louisiana, Larissa answers a phone call on one of th...

At the age of seventeen, in this version of America's dystopian future, every one has to take a test which determines their future.  K...

At the start of the summer after graduating from high school, Elizabeth receives a notice from Berkeley about her room arrangements for th...

Shy comes from a town on the border just south of San Diego and his job on a luxury cruise liner opens his eyes to the immense wealth tha...

Taylor, a nineteen year-old woman with Asperger's Syndrome, spends the summer in the south of France with her mother and the family of...

Alice McKinley has grown up.  She's left home and started school at the University of Maryland.  But unlike the other books in the ser...

So, if I'm reading YA literature in my late 40s, what was I reading when I was actually in the demographic?  Mostly science-fiction an...

Seventeen year-old Olivia comes to visit her brother in Princeton for a month in the summer.  Away from her home in England, she lets down...

String theory and giant panda bear shamans, oh my! Sophie, like her father, is obsessed with late 80s alternative rock.   She con...

Over the years, Taylor has watched her older sister being brutalized by her boyfriend, and she has copied her sibling and acquired an abus...

Thanks to redistricting, Reyna gets assigned to a different junior high school than her BFFs.  As one of the only "new" kids at ...

Carter loves her small town of Little CA.  She loves its beauty, quiet, and solitude.  And while other kids dream of getting away, Carter ...

Travis and his friend Chantelle have long been a focus of unwanted attention from the local bullies.  If you ask Travis's uncle, howev...

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 ...