Not Acting My Age

VEIL is a new social media app that allows artists to upload their work and comment on other people's art.  It's completely anonym...

Robinson (named after Jackie Robinson) is a tough girl.  When bully Alex Carter teases her, she decks him.  When Alex hurts her best frien...

At 18, Beth is an overweight outcast in a dysfunctional family.  In her own words, she's "fugly." Out in public she tries to...

When Kate's mother died, Kate still had no idea of who her father was.  So when a New York Times  reporter discloses that the leading ...

Red has been passed around to quite a few foster homes, but she's counting down the days until her mother is released from jail and th...

In 2000, sixteen year-old Bridget finds herself pregnant.  Unwilling to terminate the pregnancy and unable to keep the baby, she navig...

For all the reading I do in contemporary children's literature, I have plenty of big gaps in my knowledge of classic children's li...

Life wasn't particularly happy after the death of their mother, but Jack and her little brother Birdie found their Uncle Carl to be a ...

Maya has been putting up with her boyfriend's violence for the past three months, but when he blackens her eye, something snaps. She...

Marinka would like to have a friend, a living  friend for more than an evening.  But when you live with Baba Yaga and your line of busines...

Young ladies may obsess now over to which college they will be accepted, instead of to whom they will marry, but in this modern send-up of...

Lenora is bored out of her mind.  Dragged from one dull place to another by her inattentive nanny, she longs for an adventure.  So, when s...

For the past five years, Coyote and her father have lived on the road, driving a converted school bus all over the country.  They live a f...

After the death of her older brother, Rain's parents decide to relocate to New York City from Vermont for a change of scenery and to s...

Clara is horrified to find out from her school's librarian that there is a list of banned books.  Worse, the list has just been signif...

When Allie and her father are out and about, everyone can tell that her Dad is an Arab and suspect he is a Muslim, but Allie takes after h...

Veronica Clarke is a stone's throw away from graduating and being her class's Valedictorian.  She's popular and surrounded by ...

Addie Emerson plans to win the coveted Athenian Award so she can use the prize money to fund her attendance at Harvard.  To do so, she...

(I never thought I would read a YA book that opens with Olga's Revenge. This colorful anecdote from Russia's foundation legend for...

At an isolated inn the Colorado Rockies called Havenfall, lies a place where portals join our world to the Adjacent Realms.  Every summ...