Not Acting My Age

Prenna and her mother live in a tight secretive community that lives by twelve key rules designed to keep them at arm's length from ot...

After Dennis's mother moves out, Dennis finds it hard to express the feelings he is having.  Neither his father nor his older brother ...

Alex is an absolutely atrocious driver.  It isn't that she's reckless, but quite the opposite:  nervous and terribly afraid that s...

Willa has been seeing things (dead people, flashes, water on the floor, writing on the wall) that no one else sees.  It appears to be tied...

The first thing that Samantha remembers is walking along a road in her bare feet.  She's badly injured.  She doesn't know it then,...

When Alice got sick with leukemia, life went on hold.  Alice's problems with her ex-, the knowledge that her mother was cheating on he...

It's a beach story (there's a boy who's off-limits and best friend to betray), but it's also not your typical summer roman...

Felix is a first class geek with two geek parents (they are both teachers at a local college), but Felix can't help the fact that he...

Torrey has always liked being in the public eye.  Her popular fashion VLOG has been a dream come true, garnering plenty of attention.  But...

Nawra (a refugee in Darfur) and K.C. (a high-schooler in Richmond VA) make an odd match.  Through a correspondence sponsored by an NGO, th...

Alex has a lot of trouble in her life.  Her father recently died in a car accident, her best friend has cancer, and there's a guy (Leo...

Flora is a natural-born cynic, while Ulysses is a might-be superhero squirrel.  After an unfortunate encounter with a powerful vacuum clea...

After Violet's father moved out on them, Mom went through a string of disastrous relationships.  Violet has had enough of these losers...

Valley and her brother Bo have been raised by their Da to survive in a frightening world.  They've been living under the radar and in ...

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 ...