Not Acting My Age

Of all the books I've reviewed in the past year, this one has probably had the most buzz of any of them.  Aside from the fact that Hazel...

Lena has spent her life wearing gloves and avoiding close contact with others.  Thanks to a curse from a witch, she is unable to touch peopl...

In the wake of a global flu pandemic that has killed the vast majority of the human race, pockets of survivors attempt to eke out a living b...

Combining Olivia's love of history and political science with her shrewd observations about high school cliques and her struggles for po...

Viv has a reputation in her small West Virginia town of being difficult and unfriendly.  But while she's carrying a grudge against some ...

Seventh grader Eren isn't thrilled that her mother has started dating a creepy lawyer.  And she's even less thrilled about the idea ...

Borrowing some characters from her previous novel, Hot British Boyfriend and repurposing that story's key ingredients, this light surpr...

Every year or so, the hala makes its appearance.  Fox-like, it lurks in the woods causing increasing amount of damage to its surroundings un...

Trying to cope with her mother's descent into opioid addiction and a traumatic encounter at school, Larkin ends up bruised and drunk in ...

When an auto accident causes Tessa to lose her sight, the promise that the loss is probably temporary is small comfort.  She holes herself u...

Three months after Emily's sister Holly has died, she is still processing the loss.  Her mother is always sad and Emily's friends ar...

Autumn and Finn grew up together as best friends and next door neighbors.  Their mothers always assumed that they would end up together as a...

Princess Solimar loves to watch the Monarch butterflies as they pass through on their annual migration.  This year, they have given her some...

Thirteen year-old Breda has been caught one too many times stealing from others.  It's all petty stuff and mostly done for attention, bu...

For 900 days during the height of World War II, the city of Leningrad was under siege and blockaded by the Nazis, trapping over two million ...

Jessica hates Tegan and the only reason she ever agreed to attend Tegan's end-of-the-summer party was because Jake convinced her to go. ...

Annie's father is fond of telling her stories from the Old Country, fairy tales from faraway Litvania.  They are strange stories and alw...

Summer Uzoma has been managing through her senior year alone.  Ever since her parents fled, going on the lam after being accused of credit c...

Ever since Lily's twin brother Anders died, Mom has been lost in her grief, spending time (and money) on a woman who claims to be able t...

Niko and Ali meet each other at an exclusive summer program for art students in New York City.  Underachiever Niko barely squeaks in on the ...