Not Acting My Age

It is now the day after Leora Flint's grand reveal, the event that formed the finale of Ink  (reviewed here on June 21, 2019).  Leo...

As ambitious Zora arrives for her summer study program at the prestigious Halstead University, she knows she’s out of her element.   She...

Grayson, Mike, and Ian have been best friends since they were children.  As residents on a vacation island, the summers have always been a...

After twelve year-old Sunny makes it successfully through a heart transplant, she’s determined to change her life.   In the days leading...

The Buffalo Bayou is a landmark of Houston and in this rather dreamy novel, Appelt uses it as a means of telling four different stories th...

Fig is not a fan of storms.  Their coastal New Jersey town gets a good share of them.   It’s not the wind, dark clouds, or rain, but rat...

When star catcher Mickey and her best friend Caroline (their team's pitcher) are seriously injured in a car accident, the girls are te...

Jack meets Kate at a party during a weekend visit to Whittier, the school he plans to attend.  And Kate is the best thing that's ever ...

When they find Sparrow standing on the edge of the roof of her school, everyone presumes that she was planning to jump.  She knows she was...

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...