Not Acting My Age

The billboard mocks River.  Everyday, he has to drive by the picture of his late best friend Dylan, adorning a PSA urging teens not to text ...

Having spent several months in the hospital recovering from polio, Charity is having trouble adjusting to life back home.  Her schoolmates a...

Dura and Ariminthia have been at war for ages, each side convinced that they are right and neither prepared for peace.  But despite strong f...

Jane has a pretty decent life.  Her family lives in a nice suburb and has enough money for her to enjoy nice clothes and the things she want...

Flora and her three friends are the Arden String Quartet, a talented group of middle schoolers.  They are always getting asked to perform at...

Traveling alone on the train from Cork to Dublin, Margo nearly passes out and suddenly finds herself in another world.  In danger from the v...

For most of her life, Valerie's family has been part of a conservative Christian religious community.  And to keep her away from rival i...

Maeve has been hiding her true identity for the past seven years.  Her father, a scriptomancer , brought infamy on her family by causing the...

Maisie, at eighteen, has absorbed everything she can learn about painting portraits from her parents, but she longs to develop a style that ...

In the present day, Zinnia is working on her admission essay for Harvard but it isn't coming together.  Zinnia's decided to write ab...

For Esme, the single greatest obstacle in her life is her own body.  She loves to dance, truly coming alive when her body is in motion, but ...

For years, Evie's family has moved every year or so as her mother got promoted to better and better jobs.  But now, Mom says that she...

Nav and Hallie are best friends.  And while Nav is a lesbian and Hallie is bisexual, friends are all that they have ever been.  It's pro...

After the traumatic death of Lucia's best friend, her mother decides that Lucia needs to get away from Pittsburgh for a while.  Mom'...

Birdie is an obsessed social media influencer who ignominiously crashed her boyfriend's car on a live broadcast (it was justified -- she...

When Lynda's father gets remarried and Lynda gains a stepsister, it seems like it is Lynda who always has to make the sacrifices.  While...

When a scheduling mishap in her senior year lands Eliza in a Culinary Arts class instead of AP Physics, she worries that her stellar GPA and...

When Mari dies, she finds herself in Paradise Gate, a way station where one decides if your next stop will be the Afterlife or the Eternal A...

Mia, her little brother, and her parents are adrift on an old boat in the Caribbean and it is all Mia's fault.  When she had a breakdown...

For the past six years, Dexter has been raised by his grandmother and the other residents of The Pines, a retirement community.  Being the y...