“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

In Deception, D. Rebbitt’s first book in The Cyborg Wars series, Prince Gregor of the frontier world of Evergreen, an independent principality beyond the Human Empire, drifts through a privileged life. His father, Emperor Mikolavich, wants to unite Evergreen with the neighboring enclave of Berane,...

Lights & Sirens by Elizabeth Raum is a heartwarming tale about Annika “Anni” Sawyer, a quiet sixteen-year-old still dealing with her dad’s death. After seeing a poster in a store window for volunteers, Anni decides to join her town’s ambulance squad. At first, Anni wants...

Ingefaer vod Renku: Aere Warrior by Rene Vecka introduces us to Ingefaer, a tall, red-haired ten-year-old who vows to get justice after scale-skinned monsters kill her mother and father. Her new life with her uncle Thadir is a battle of wills, especially when his drinking...

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...