Not Acting My Age

Straight-A student Jamie has messed up badly.  Blinded by her desire to impress a boy that she has a crush on, she's been caught viola...

Perhaps one of the most iconic photographs from 9/11 is the one of “Baby Hope.” You know the one with the one year-old baby girl in a pr...

Almost ten years ago, Biz lost her father to depression.  While his suicide made her sad initially, she felt better when he came back to...

It's bedtime for Anne, but before she can nod off, she wants to wish everyone a goodnight.  Whether it is Marilla or Matthew, her boso...

A whimsical biography of Edgar Allan Poe's early years, set mostly on Poe's year away at UVA.  Torn between two muses (one that em...

Astrid is a thunderbolt, a force of nature in her mountain home of Glimmerdale.  Her joys in life consist of sledding down hills, singing ...

Sara is looking forward to spending the last year of middle school with her best friend Nadine.  However, at the end of summer Nadine anno...

Eventown is a perfect place.  In it, the most beautiful roses grow, food is delicious, everyone is perfect, and every house looks the same...

In this sequel to Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer , Sophie continues her explorations of raising chickens.  Now the pr...

Gaia and her sisters are mermaids, living off the coast of Ireland.   In their society, men are in charge and their duty is to be demure...

Willa has issues with things around her that feel wrong.   A sensory processing disorder makes certain sights, sounds, smells, tastes, ...

In this most striking science fiction novel of 2018 that you've never heard of, Mun Mun  describes a world where your net worth define...

Ellie is having the worst Monday ever.  Her parents are fighting, she gets a ticket for running a red light on the way to school, and he...

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...