Not Acting My Age

Since her mother died, Glorieta has mourned the fact that her aunts won't speak about their sister.  Suicide is a sin and Tia Diosonit...

Ryann is so busy taking care of her family and her set of misfit friends, that she barely has time to worry about the things she can’t h...

When Alyssa collapses in the midst of a hurricane recovery fundraiser, only Janelle knows that it’s her diabetes and that her condition ...

In Leora’s world, people tattoo their bodies with the story of their lives:   their family trees, their failures and accomplishments, an...

After her roommate is seriously injured in a fall, Hannah is accused of causing the accident. It is all just a result of a love triangle i...

Shayla is a good girl, follows the rules, and keeps out of trouble.  But starting junior high this year, the rules seem to have changed.  ...

When her drunken boyfriend causes an accident that nearly kills her younger sister, it's the last straw for Harley.  The fact that she...

Disfigured by a blood tumor, Sophie has learned to cope with unwanted attention by hiding.  And she's created a complicated narrativ...

When a fisherman hauls home a great white shark that got snared in his nets, Lucy and her friend Fred are entranced by the creature.   T...

When Grace’s mother is accused of running a Ponzi scam, only Grace believes in her mother's innocence.  And when Mom suffers a strok...

Will knows what it means to be looked down upon.   At 4’11”, he’s stuck wearing kid’s clothes.   His stepbrother Drew towers over him at...

One night Louisiana's grandmother wakes her up and herds her out to the car.  It's only when they've crossed into Georgia that...

Rupert's family is unbelievably poor.  He doesn't own a coat and he has to sleep under the bed with his brothers.  His family subs...

As a kid I told my mom I wanted to be a bird when I grew up. She never said I couldn't. So for years I bird-sang my words. And...

Susan and her family have immigrated to Canada from Saudi Arabia, but the family tie is strained by her father's decision to stay back...

Sarah Anne has never really thought much about her dedication to the Nightshade series.   But  when she stumbles across a contest to i...

When Spindrift washed ashore after the sinking of her parents’ ship, she was found with a defective crystal ball.   Unlike the balls in ...

How much thought have you ever given to Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters?   The ones who (in the original version of the story) chopped up ...

With her mother working in California this year, Lucy and her father have their hands full taking care of her little brothers back in Chic...

Louisa and her little brother Theo get dropped off on a remote island to stay with their grandparents while Mom and Dad go off on a birdwa...