Not Acting My Age

Violet has been shipped off to her uncle in Maine.  It's their family's ancestral home and Violet's family has been there so lon...

Most YA stories about rape focus on recovery.  The victim works through the trauma and gets on with their life in some way or another.  The ...

Seventh grader Libby has big dreams.  When she hears that there is a contest being sponsored by the Smithsonian for the best essay on a fema...

Mae and Hannah are close to each other, but there are forces in the universe trying to pull them apart.  In the middle of their senior year,...

Thirty years have passed since Mr. and Mrs.Willoughby froze on a Swiss mountaintop.  Now, thanks to global warming, they have thawed out.  C...

The Willoughbys have four children: the eldest Tim, the twins (both named Barnaby), and little Jane.  Being an old-fashioned family such as ...

Ten year-old Della likes to think of herself as a wolf, in the sense that she is brave and fearless.  But wolves don't act alone.  Like ...

Veronica lives with death.  There's the tumor in her brain that causes her unbearable migraines and whose severity she hides from her Da...

Natalie's parents take ten months to get around to telling her -- on Christmas Day! -- that they are getting divorced, her two best frie...

Nora is really excited to be spending the summer in an elite tech summer program at Winthrop Academy.  She's hoping to win the camp'...

Skye loves dancing and singing.  She dreams of one day becoming a K-pop performer, but the reality is that Korean culture expects female per...

In post-apocalyptic Alabama, Ami lives with her grandparents, aunts, and uncles at the Heavenly Shepherd compound.  Great grandfather packed...

Ben and new girl Ani hit it off at the beginning of senior year.  It's a great relationship.  Ani is spunky and spirited and knows how t...

Piper dreams of becoming a journalist.  But to realize her dream, she needs to get into a journalism program and to do that she needs someon...

When Anna's ex-boyfriend creates a revenge porn site dedicated to her, she and her mother change their identities and move to a town up ...

There is a subgenre of YA and NA literature that I like to call "tour guide romance" which basically consists of a story about a y...

When Genesis and her family get evicted, it's just the latest in a series of hardships she and her mother have had to endure.  Neither o...

Diana is fierce and brave.  She loves her home on Themyscira and is immensely proud of the work the women of the island perform guarding the...

In January 1986, Bird and her classmates are infected with space fever.  The Challenger  is about to send the first teacher into space and s...

Mia is spending the summer helping her grandmother manage a new venture growing crickets as a food source.  It's an uphill battle trying...