Not Acting My Age

(After all those heavy dark novels, I needed to take a break...) Madison has received an ultimatum from her parents:  no more strays!  If sh...

A group of incarcerated youth at a remote correctional facility in the Ozarks suddenly find that their jailors have gone missing and the doo...

I had no idea how innovative mecha literature could be!  But between War Girls  (reviewed in January) and this novel, it would appear that ...

Before she dies, Charlie's grandmother wants to be taken back to Georgia, to the town of Eureka where she was born.  Charlie who grew up...

Willodeen lives in the village of Perchance.  Perchance is known for its annual Bumblebear Faire, where the cute little winged bears and the...

After yet another year of being bullied at school, Kaitlin is looking forward to a summer away from her peers.  So her mother's sudden d...

After her father leaves the family for another woman, Evie decides that she's given up on love.  All it seems to do is leave people hurt...

Her father's suicide has taught Lila that loving and trusting people is too dangerous.  In her "handbook" for 'half-orphan...

Mona's magic isn't big and spectacular.  Her skill is manipulating bread:  she can make dough do what she asks it to do and she has ...

At a fundraiser the day before, Nora's ex Wes found Nora and Iris kissing.  Now, the three of them are having the most awkward moment to...

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 ...