The Crystal Apple by Thomas Stacey follows fourteen-year-old Steve Tikowski in 1980s Detroit, where a broken bicycle chain leads him to an object no one can explain. Near Michigan Central Station, Steve sees the black glass device appear from a small opening in the ground....

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

The Dangerous Shipment is the first book of The Cogs and Gears of the Cosmos series by Simon Drayton. In the near future, humanity has reached the far trenches of the Nebula. Godwin Dirteon is a seventeen-year-old prodigy among the Gearsmen of the Nebula-Class Ship,...

In Lotte Skale and the Wyvern Hatchery by Shanna P. Lowe, fourteen-year-old Lotte helps her father operate a hatchery and sanctuary for endangered wyverns, winged, serpentine creatures that are hunted by the tyrant, King Bouldermaul. The regime in Asoleenya is anti-magic, and this means Lotte...

Eafin Lokdore and the Altar of the Sun is the second volume in R.G. Edwards’ The Eafin Lokdore Trilogy. Master Magician Eafin Lokdore is fifteen years old and grief-stricken when he sets out on the impossible mission to overthrow Sorfin, the usurper, and restore the...

In R.G. Edwards's Eafin Lokdore and the Magician's Lost Medallion, after young border scout Eafin Lokdore discovers that the armies of Maggoria are advancing toward the peaceful hamlet of Qualdor, he carries a warning across the dangerous wilderness to the leaders of the Realm of...

In The Junkyard by Bryan Reilly, after escaping a dog-fighting ring run by a violent junkyard owner named Mr. Fergusen, a battered pit bull called Ninja is taken into a hidden settlement beneath piles of wrecked cars where abandoned dogs survive under the leadership of...

Kuni Ruto by Llewellyn Burgess is a political fantasy that follows the story of Arinko Xelha. This begins a decade after the Queendom of Xelha’s civil war with Arinko as the new queen. Young and inexperienced in politics, Arinka was passionate about rebuilding her damaged...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

In the epic fantasy Zodiac: The Talismans Rising by Kyrie Dunphy, X takes an artifact called the Yin Scroll from a hidden chamber beneath a jungle cenote, and in doing so triggers a massive chain reaction. This disrupts the system governing a realm called Sheng...