Not Acting My Age

I wanted to take a break from heavy teen books and pick up a middle reader for something light.  Unfortunately, I picked poorly.... Carl...

Scarlett does not have much of a life IRL, but she's a major force in Lycanthrope High fanfiction.  And when the show (a thinly veile...

Naila is looking forward to finishing high school, going away to college, and to finally being able to spend time with her boyfriend Saif....

After Lou fails to qualify for the British Olympic swimming time trials, she feels lost.   Her best friend has made it and left her f...

At a three-week summer camp for talented (but troubled) young people, Samantha and her peers learn how to cope with crippling anxiety atta...

Waverly can't sleep so she runs through the night.  And when she does sleep, she finds herself transported to the bedroom of Marshall....

When they were little, Rider always took care of Mallory.  Living in an abusive foster home, it was Rider who literally took the blows tha...

Castella and her five siblings live in the woods in upstate New York, in a state of fear.   Their mother is crippled and their father...

Told in the voices of ten young people in ten separate chapters, their lives interact with each other over the course of a day.   Wha...

David is a young teen struggling with gender identity and the lifelong belief that he should have been a girl.  His parents just assume he...

For Wil, the next few weeks will be especially critical:  a brief period of planetary alignment means that she will have to face her worst...

After her mother dies, Lina discovers that she has a father in Italy whom she’s never met.   With her only other living relative (grand...

Sophia, her Mom, and her Dad have moved to her late great uncle's farm in Gravenstein.  Her Mom is busy writing free-lance articles al...