Not Acting My Age

One of the truly rarest themes in YA literature are stories with a strong respectful approach to religion.  In these days of no holds barred...

As the eldest daughter in her Chinese-Australian family, Anna carries a lot of responsibility.  Her younger sister and little brother need h...

Alkaf's new middle reader is a contemporary story based on Malaysian folklore.  Suraya is a lonely child but she has one true friend, an...

Sorrel is very good at following rules.  So good, in fact, that she is a shoo-in for Headmaster Grittysnit's new contest for the most we...

After the death of her mother, Willa returns to the Washington coast to live with her father.  Before she died, Mom was a marine biologist a...

Davidsburg, Virginia in the 1950s was a place where everyone knew their place, white or black, man and woman.  But in 1959, after years of f...

Saoirse isn't much of a believer in love.  Aside from one major girlfriend and being the handy available partner to every girl in school...

Marva is eighteen, which means that she finally gets to take part in her first election.  She's completely on top of this.  She's be...

At Red Creek, life is simple and straightforward.  The Prophet speaks for God and rules all.  His Patriarchs administer his will over their ...

This is no greater hell on Earth than a middle school square dancing unit. Lupe Wong has a hero:  Fu Li Hernandez, the Chinese Mexican pitch...

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...