Not Acting My Age

Another graphic novel from Libenson, the creator of Invisible Emmie  (reviewed back in December).  This one traces two girls in middle sch...

After living nearly her whole life inside the compound of the Lord’s Legion and believing with all of her heart that Pastor John was the...

Alena’s mother died when she was three years old and she’s been raised by her brother ever since.   He doesn’t talk much about it, nor d...

Up until fifth grade, Emma has been home-schooled, but now she is going to start attending public school.   She is conflicted between fe...

Clea gets easily distracted but she’s always been able to cope and get her work done up to now.   But in seventh grade the work has gott...

Kennedy always wondered what her life would have been like if she had gone to Windsor Academy instead of public school.  As far as anyone ...

Felicity Montague has been waging a helpless fight against the stodgy physicians of Edinburgh, trying to convince them to let her study me...

Lark and her boyfriend Alec are canoeing on the lake when they hear a little girl crying for help.   They both jump into the water to sa...

It was the crime of the century in Twin Lakes, Vermont.  A girl named Summer is brutally killed in the woods.  When news that the killing ...

In East Rockport, TX, school is hell.  And if you're not a football player (and especially if you're a girl), it's far far wor...

Megan Harper seems to have an uncanny ability for finding the perfect guy and losing him to someone else.  She's always the girlfriend...

Leah has been carrying around her heart -- an artificial pump -- in a backpack while she waits to find a donor.  In a strange twist of fat...

An anthology of short stories about young people with disabilities, which features a wide variety of approaches to the topic.  Some of the...

Stacia and her best friend Clio, along with their friend Pol, have been inseparable on their quiet agricultural planet on the far reache...

Ever since her best friend Lizzie died from cancer, Emily’s felt a distinct pain she’s felt unable to explain to others.   Except perhap...

Floyd is an up and coming tennis star on the youth circuit.  But he's haunted by a boy named Mike that only he can see.  Mike is more ...

A historical novel is most satisfying when it either addresses some familiar event in a new way or finds an event that is largely unknown ...

When Brooke sees police cars outside their home, she’s convinced that her abusive father has finally killed Mom.   Violence has become s...

Melly gets called "mouse" by her friends and family because she is usually so shy and quiet.  But put her behind a drum set, and...

When Lily was a little girl, she announced to her father’s best friend Luke that she wanted to marry him.   Luke  promised her that he w...