Not Acting My Age

In Rose's town, people collect magic in jars.  Big magic, small magic, magic that makes rain, magic that turns your finger nails pink fo...

It all begins in the nurse's office where Meg and Riley meet and share a bag of jelly beans.  The two girls are very different.  Riley h...

Josie peaked in high school.  Back then, she was the indisputable star of the stage.  When she won a nationwide drama contest, her teacher e...

Charity is a modern-day fairy godmother.  Thanks to powers she inherited from her grandmother, she receives "glimpses" of the futu...

Rani is the type of girl that parents and aunties always point to when they want to show other children what a good girl should be like.  Sh...

Isabel is a good kid.  She doesn't cause any trouble at home, she gets good grades, and she doesn't make waves.  With her popular bu...

While subject to ridicule at school, Kira is a precocious science wizard.  She has learned how to use her skills to win science contests to ...

Juliette is a multi-lingual flapper girl and heir to lead the Scarlet Gang.  Roma and his fellow Russian are their competitors, the White Fl...

Recent kidney transplant recipient Andre considers himself pretty lucky to be alive. He's not simply gotten a chance to live his life, h...

Mel lives for the theater and she has the fortitude and the organizational skills to have earned the right to be the youngest stage manager ...

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...