Not Acting My Age

After Flor and Zach broke up, Flor's friend Willa took it on herself to make sure that the Girl Code was upheld, warning their friends...

At a party, Eden and Will almost kissed.  A short time afterwards, he was dead.   Will’s grieving mother, misunderstanding the seriousn...

Everyone knows that the prince must find and slay the dragon and rescue the damsel.  Everyone knows that then the prince will become the k...

Strickland County is a poisonous place, whether it's the soil damaged by mining and chemicals or the spread of opioids among the popul...

While exploring a deserted house in a mining ghost town, Sonnet finds is transported back in time to 1895. In a similar fashion, Emma, t...

Seventeen historical short stories that share in common the idea that the protagonists are gender queer.  It's a concept that could ha...

Elle is bright and used to getting good grades, but with her Mom in jail after a long descent into addiction and dealing, Elle’s life ha...

The day finally arrived when Southern California’s taps went dry.   The great “Tap-Out” they called it.   After years of using up more w...

Fourteen years ago, I started this blog with a review of Speak – a book that, at the time, was already a best-seller and just starting ...

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...