Not Acting My Age

Having a large chest presents all sorts of problems, ranging from finding a dress that fits to participating in sports comfortably to enduri...

Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko can't stand each other.  To Valentina, Oksana is a bully who wants only to taunt her at school and...

Cassie's mother used to be a bigger-than-life person. But since she started forgetting things, that energy seems to be slipping away.  S...

By the late 1930s, thanks to economic pressures and the rise of anti-Semitism, it was becoming clear that Esther's family could not stay...

When Nephele enters ninth grade, she discovers that her obsession with math is no longer cute.  In fact, it's decidedly un-cool.  Her be...

When the Great Depression came, Ellie's family lost everything and were forced to move out of town and into the woods, to live on the si...

Cade and Logan are shocked when their World History teacher assigns the class the opportunity to debate the Nazi's Final Solution.  The ...

What if all those spell books and guides to witchcraft you checked out of the library and studied had actually worked?  Where lighting candl...

Senior year and a life of avoiding life's questions has left Cham (short for Chamomile) with anger issues and a serious case of writer...

Now that they are in middle school, Elizabeth worries that her best friend Maddie is drifting apart from her.  Maddie no longer seems to enj...

Lou has a great singing voice, which her mother likes to put out front and center when they are busking.  It brings in better tips and, heav...

The town of Auburn is struggling under a freak migration of crows.  Thousands and thousands of the birds have arrived and cover everything. ...

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...