Not Acting My Age

Jelly is the class clown.  Adept at mimicking her classmates and their teachers, she makes everyone in eighth grade laugh. But the truth is ...

Annie and Pete are that rare set:  the boy and girl who have remained friends from childhood without drifting into romance.  What has allowe...

Sanna is not like the other mermaids.  She knows that she obviously has a mother, but no one can remember who she is.  They know that her mo...

Back when Lydia's mother was still alive, the two of them would work on collages.  Their collages, built off of pictures taken from an o...

Brie loves soap operas, but she never counted on her eighth-grade life becoming one.  She gets caught by her Mom looking at nude pictures of...

A lot of things lately haven't been going well for Hadley.  Over the last few years, she's been undergoing the loss of her vision an...

Lina has never known life outside of captivity.  Born inside a Soviet prison camp, she ekes by with her mother and her best friend Bogdan.  ...

June and her friends are super psyched about attending ZombieCon! They've been saving all summer for the passes and this is going to be ...

The art scholarship was supposed to be Sabine's ticket out of poverty.  After her mother died, she's ended up on the street.  The sc...

The Narrows are a dangerous place, where traders try to make a living sailing treacherous waters and navigating trade between people who hav...

In 1964, Trudy Mixer discovered the Beatles and she founded the first Beatles fan club in Rhode Island at her middle school.  They would sen...

Margot hasn't had much in the world except her mother (which isn't saying much).  Their relationship could at best be called "a...

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...