Not Acting My Age

Eleven year-old Mitsi loves her dog Dash, her family, school, and her drawing.  She understands that sometimes boys like to bully people, ...

Zach is growing up.  His father thinks he's too old to be playing with action figures and dolls, or for his two best friends (Poppy an...

A mixture of emails, letters, poetry, and other media form the structure of this story of two girls who meet online and determine that the...

In "the tell-me-again times," when Anna was a little girl, she would crawl into her mother's bed and her Mom would tell her,...

Odessa has lots of things that bother her.  She hates the fact that her father doesn't live with them anymore.  She hates that he'...

When seventh-grader Sierra accidentally brings her mother's lunch to school, she's in for a surprise when her mother's paring ...

People have often noted the physical similarities between Marie-Therese, daughter of the King of France, and her chambermaid Ernestine.  A...

Dimple Lala (introduced to us in Born Confused ) is now studying at NYU and has become well-integrated into New York's club scene.  He...

Avery and Nora had been friends since first grade, where they discovered that they were both adopted.  Over the years, however, they had d...

When they were seven, Sphinxie's mother and her best friend made a blood oath to be friends forever, become (respectively) an advertis...

When Zoe and her BFF Olivia get kicked out of their ballet school, Zoe is heartbroken but at least assumes that it is the worst day of the...

In 1918, after her father is arrested for treason for discouraging men from enlisting, Mary is sent to live with her aunt in San Diego.  I...

Being the daughter of the President of the United States is tough!  You're never allowed to go out without a security detail.  People ...

Elise is very driven and successful at most things she tries, except for the one thing that matters the most to her: having friends.  She...

Largely devoted to tracing several generations of the Roux-Lavender family and the people who crossed paths with them, Strange and Beautif...

When Lauren's mother throws her out of her home, Lauren doesn't have a lot of choice about where to go.  Only her aunt and uncle a...

Many years in the future, in the land that was once the eastern Brazilian state of Bahia, the city of Palmares Tres now stands.  Built as ...

Emma had always liked her stepfather and was looking forward to being an older sister to the baby that her mother was carrying.  But that ...

Gerald Faust has an anger management problem.  It's understandable if you knew the years of abuse he suffered from his older sister.  ...

After six months of caring for his depressed father (after his Mom walked out on them) Sam has pretty much had it.  So, when Dad suggests ...