Not Acting My Age

At Greenpoint High, nobody knows more about who is doing whom or who got in trouble than the anonymous poster of Rumor Has It.  For years, t...

Loma loves little children.  Living in a big family, Loma has plenty of younger siblings and nieces and nephews to take care of.  While she ...

After Tori's uncle touches her in a bad way, she wants to be a good girl and tell an adult, but she has trouble getting the words out.  ...

Beck has spent the first sixteen years of her life trying to live down her notoriety as the girl who was born in the bathroom of the local p...

Ever since the last hurricane hit, Clara has had trouble remembering what happened last summer, but she senses it must be a bad thing becaus...

Being the only South Asian in her school has always been difficult.  Lekha has managed it by keeping a low profile -- ignore the teasing, sm...

It may be hot outside, but the only way that Lydia is going to be comfortable is by covering every inch of exposed skin.  She's roasting...

Life could always be lonely for Emma, so she cherished the time she spent with her grandmother.  Gram filled Emma's world with stories o...

Kit's loves her job at the Castle as a serving wench.  She loves the excitement and adventure at this medieval-themed dinner theater (he...

My wife never asks me why I read children's books, but she does ask me why I read the depressing and distressing ones.  Complete with a...

As if middle school, with all of its emotional drama and body changes, were not stressful enough, Molly is tired of the way the school's...

When Mila ages out of foster care, she is offered the opportunity to be an intern at a remote farm on the coast that takes in foster kids.  ...

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...