Not Acting My Age

It's early March, six weeks away from the eighth grade dance, and Quinn can't believe that Isaac (the class president) isn't tak...

Mia is trouble.  She's never found a drink she wouldn't drink, a drug she wouldn't take, or a guy she wouldn't hook up with....

Whenever Alma asks her mother about her father, Mom either gets evasive or angry. Alma knows that he died when she was really young (her Nan...

Emma Harris has lived a life of privilege for her first twelve years. Like other girls of her status, her father has now enrolled her in Mis...

Soraya has lived her life to date as a prisoner in her own home.  Cursed at birth as a result of her mother's rash decision, Soraya is u...

I don't often review picture books, but that doesn't mean that I don't read them!  And when a really good one comes along, I wan...

Zelda is dreaming of breaking into the Big Time in comedy, landing a job at Second City before getting plucked up by Saturday Night Live .  ...

Ever since her older sister was permanently crippled during a high school prank run amok, Ember has wanted to wreak vengeance against the se...

Cordelia is feeling pretty smug about her senior year.  She's going to ace her senior project, basically by copying her older sister...

When Frankie and Benjamin start liking each other, things follow their natural progression, except that when they hook up for the first time...

When Maggie dies in a car accident, her girlfriend Corinne has no one to turn to.  Publicly, Corinne and Maggie aren't even friends.  Co...

Continuing a model Atkins used successfully in Finding Wonders, this book explores the lives of seven women who made a difference through ma...

Ana has always had a way with words in her old home in Argentina, but when she and her mother emigrate to New Jersey to join her father, she...

Things have been tough since Beckett's father died from an overdose of the OxyContin he was taking to numb his battle injuries.  In the ...

Ruby can't deal with her mother starting to date her water polo coach.  She can't deal with her best friend Mila, whose life is goin...

Thanks to Hulu, the true political subtlety of Margaret Attwood's Handmaid's Tale  was long ago lost to the spectacle of exaggerated...

Ever since the DavyTron (which can convert tomato juice into any delicious vegetable you want) came out, the family farm stands of the world...

Perry Ackerman is a known pest.  All of the waitresses at The Goat know that he'll try to get his hands all over them given the opportun...

By an unusual chain of events, Callie's family find themselves heirs to a castle in Scotland.  While renovating it will present quite a ...

Sophie is a good princess, but she won't make a good queen, so says her stepmother and anyone else who dares to speak of the matter alou...