Not Acting My Age

Karina does what she can to make her parents proud.  She works hard in school.  She follows her parent's strict rules (5PM curfew, no bo...

Ostensibly a road trip story told in verse, Me (Moth)  is a complex tale  tackling grief, depression, and suicide (with a few quick shots on...

A collection of short stories that promise to "transform" tropes suggests some exciting original storytelling.  Heaven knows that ...

If you're an overachiever, you probably have not spent much time thinking about the possibility of not putting everything into your work...

For this retelling of The Grimms Brothers' Six Swans , the setting has been transported to Scotland, throwing in a bit of Highland brava...

Emory has always tried to be who others told her she was.  She wasn't as beautiful as her older sister, but she was the  good  one.  Tha...

Ciel is starting high school this year.  They have always had a complicated identity, being non-binary, but in middle school people knew Cie...

Liv is starting middle school this year.  There will be lots of new things to get used to:  being the youngest instead of the oldest, having...

Tabby, the girl next door, has always been there for Matt.  They've hung out with each other since they were babies and know each other ...

One of my standing pet peeves about contemporary fiction is its strong urban and suburban bias.  Just as the mass media and popular culture ...

Steffi suffers from anxiety-induced mutism.  In front of strangers or presented with stressful situations, she is unable to speak.  The hard...

Arsalan has been raised and homeschooled by his great grandfather Nana.  Since his mother died in a car accident a few years ago, it's j...

In this sequel to the pacifist allegory  Pax , years have passed and both boy and fox have grown.  The war which raged through the first boo...

Having come of age, Prince Tal is now on his traditional coming out tour of the kingdom.  Few of his subjects know him because he has been h...

Kate and Anderson have been friends for ages.  One of the best parts of having a gay friend is their ability to crush on the same guys as yo...

Clarice is just a little ship mouse.  Since her mother was washed out to sea, she's looked after her intelligent (but largely impractica...

The family trip to Hawaii (ostensibly for her mother's professional conference) has been something that Ada and her sisters have been lo...

Ciela has inherited her great grandmother's talent for intuiting what pastry someone at her family's pasteleria would most enjoy.  ...

After the death of his beloved sister, Jude and his family deal with their grief.  His parents are both deeply lost in depression, but for t...

Catalina was supposed to be a seer -- a person blessed by Luna with the ability to perceive the future -- but she's failed miserably at ...