Not Acting My Age

At the age of sixteen, Alex is struggling with the growing dissonance between what she is trying to be and who she thinks she is.  She...

When Joseph Brooks comes to Jack's family to be fostered, he's only thirteen years old, but he's deeply troubled and has alrea...

During a summer, Cassie is diagnosed with a psychotic disorder.  As she quickly discovers, it colors people's perceptions of her.  Try...

Ruby's mother is serving a twenty-five year sentence as an accomplice to murder.  To Ruby, it's almost normal that she can only se...

Ever since Maddie learned how uncool comic books and fantasy/science fiction stories are, she's hid her love for them.  Instead, she h...

After transgender teen Amanda is beat up by transphobes, she is sent to live with her father, in a town where no one knows that she used t...

Before Katie's grandmother appeared in their lives, Katie didn't even know that she was still alive.  And now that she has, Katie do...

Summer’s family is having a run of bad luck.   Her parents have had to go to Japan to care for ailing relatives, leaving Summer and h...

For years, Ally has had creative ways to avoid revealing that she can't read.  She tries to read, but the letters just seem to swim ar...

Devon feels like she is drifting through life.   She’s in denial about being infatuated with her friend Cas.   She’s avoiding the ent...

As Theo's grandfather lies dying he tells her to look "under the egg." This cryptic message actually makes sense to her as t...

When Emily and a football player named Lucas confess to failing to report a rape they witness, their school assigns 40 hours of community ...

Nix and her father travel between times and places. But they are far from rootless.   Dad is obsessed with getting back to Honolulu i...

She is a foundling and her mother and father a mystery.  But when she is brought to Ma Dane's home she is taken in without a word.  He...

Go big or go home .  Willowdean (or "Dumplin'" as her Mom calls her) has always been a husky girl.  And while she's gene...

When Georges and his family move in to the building, and he's urged by his father to meet some new kids, he’s not sure he wants t...

Taking a brief break from traumatized teens to pick up a light and thoroughly enjoyable middle reader.... Ava is a whiz with words.  She...

Kate and Aidan are both battling their private demons and more alike than they (or anyone else) realizes.  She's struggling with a rec...

When the other two members of their band start dating each other, Riley and Reid decide they need to start doing serious research and catc...

When Lexi’s mother finds her secret portfolio of drawings, Mom freaks out at their homoerotic content.   Mom’s been unstable since Da...