Not Acting My Age

Nine short stories loosely tied together around the funeral of a nineteen year-old named Kevin Nicholas.  Hearing the premise, I figured t...

A giant asteroid is hurtling towards Earth and expected to impact somewhere in Idaho in slightly more than twenty-four hours.  While no on...

Two noble children at the center of curses:  Aurora (who lies at the center of a prophecy that the spilling of her blood will plunge the w...

In a story that can best be described as a cross between Cashback and The Breakfast Club , six young adults get detained on Christmas Eve...

Penny Farthing is the girl with the clockwork heart. "Augmented" through an artificial organ, she is the first girl child in her...

Hannah hates the fact that her best friend next door has moved away and that a new girl named Emme has moved in to the very same house.  S...

In the mountains of western North Carolina, there isn't a lot to do besides partying with hikers and abusing prescription meds, and th...

Brother is the youngest in the family, but with his brothers away at school and his father deployed in Iraq, he alone has to share respons...

I love a great picture book, and while I don't normally review them here, I wanted to call this one out.  A Fine Dessert is the story...

When May and Libby were younger, they devised a fairy tale about a sword-wielding Princess X, which Libby would illustrate.  But then, Lib...

Chance Cesar is totes fab, whether he's flipping off the resident Neanderthals or werking the runway and his tiara at the Harvest Moon...

Emi and her friend Charlotte have been entrusted with her brother's apartment for their first summer after graduation.  In exchange, s...

In verse, we get to meet two girls with Crohn’s Disease who share the same semi-private room at the hospital.   For Chess, this stay ...

At the start of the year, Laurel's English teacher gives her class an assignment to write a letter to a dead person.  Laurel chooses t...

M. T. is a bright student and ought to have a great future ahead of her.  But instead, she has a huge black cloud hanging over her:  her l...

After a traumatic sexual experience with her boyfriend, eighteen year-old Kristin visits an OB-GYN to find out what is wrong with her.  Sh...

Jude and Noah were as close as twins could be even through all of their differences.   At fourteen, Jude was the popular normal one, ...

Skylark, her little brother Gully, and their dad live by a second-hand record shop run by their father in the beach town of St. Kilda.  Mo...

Years ago, Coley and Sadie were best friends, but they grew up and grew apart.   Coley never quite understood why and Sadie never explai...