Not Acting My Age

As I approached the milestone of my 2000th book review, I wanted to be able to share some sort of profound observations about young adult an...

A year ago, an alien spaceship came to Earth.  No one knew what it wanted, but when it broke up in orbit into hundreds of shards and pieces,...

I'm pretty convinced that the challenge I would face in writing decent YA would not come from the difficulty of remembering the trials o...

Taking place decades before the events in The Hunger Games  trilogy, this prequel gives us a taste of the early years after the war, opening...

Clara Lemlich, an early labor organizer in New York and leader in the Triangle Shirtwaist Uprising, is the subject of this biography in vers...

Stung by a humiliating academic failure when her application to art school is rejected, Khayyam accompanies her parents to Paris in disgrace...

Bound as sex slaves in a seedy Connecticut motel, "Poppy" and the other girls live a hellish existence.  But the trauma doesn'...

Luke has been imprisoned in the Loop for over two years.  Every day is the same:  stuck in isolation for most of time and subjected every da...

After WWII, in thanks for the sacrifices that the United States made both to defend and rebuild their country, the people of France sent for...

Audrey Lee has been planning her whole life for Olympic gold. But in the aftermath of her victorious bid to qualify for Team USA, there are ...

Jane was abducted by a stranger and held captive in a basement cell for seven months until she managed to escape.  Unable to piece together ...

In the spring of 1864, Emmy and her family pull up stakes and leave their home in Quincy, Illinois.  Pa has been out West and has come back ...

In this hilarious piece of historical fiction (stressing the latter), Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok's Traveling Show are pulling of...

Jemima loves her school but hates its sexist traditions.  Chawton Academy was once all-boys and it shows from its dress codes to its prom.  ...

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 ...