Not Acting My Age

When Ashley gets separated from her friends and then lost, she has to survive in the wilds of Tennessee for days.  With no proper equipmen...

While Cass was adopted shortly after her birth, she's never felt that she somehow didn't have "real" parents.  Her Mom a...

Danny lost one of her eyes in a childhood accident.  Shortly afterwards, she lost her father as he up and left her and her mother.  Convin...

One unforgettable summer, Devon met Ashton on the beach.  As beautiful and wonderful as their summer romance was, it ended badly when Asht...

Marin is a bright and intelligent senior nearly guaranteed a spot at Brown, her first pick, in the fall.  Editor of the school paper, she ...

A year ago, Ava was the sole survivor of a fire that took the lives of not only her parents, but also her cousin.  It left her covered wit...

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a transplant center and it was an eye-opening experience.  Few of us understand UNOS, ...

Trix possesses a near-magical talent for stealing things without being detected.  It's a skill that has come in handy while she and he...

For her first sixteen years, Tal has had only her mother in her life. But a few years ago, Tal came across a shoebox of clipping and devel...

Sammie and David have been friends for ages.  But when a new kid Luke moves to town, things start to get weird.  David, who's never re...

"Lucky in love, never lucky in life," Beau's father likes to say about their family. He's laid up from a work injury and...

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...