After finishing Jennifer Gibson's book Sway, which is the first book about the life of Jessie, a hearing impaired and bullied teenager, I immediately started reading Compass, the second book in the series. In Compass, the story is mainly focused on Jessie and Karate, from...

So many adjectives come to mind while reading Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite by Lianne Simon. Yet when you speak them aloud, they all seem so inadequate. Poetic, cautionary, bittersweet, eloquent, and even tearjerker just don’t accurately convey the essence of the story. Yet, it...

Capria Rodalia: Special Illustrated Edition by Sidney Grace McPhail tells the story of how a young girl named Amaryllis goes from being a member of the lowest class to the girl who went up against the system (with a little help, of course). When Amaryllis...

The author uses a great beginning to start this outstanding story for older children. It will keep you glued to the pages and you’ll forget to breathe a few times. If you like faery people and where they come from…you are going to love this...

Beneath the humdrum reality of life as most know it, there lies a secret, intriguing world that only a privileged few can access. Willoughby, a lonely and bored young mathematician genius, is drawn into this world where he befriends a group of similarly gifted eccentrics,...

Maggie is a senior in college when she enters an internship with none other than her high school crush, Sawyer. But Sawyer isn’t the way she remembers hi; now he is in a wheelchair. As they grow into a friendship, Maggie questions if they can...

Caught in the Current, the debut novel by Daniel Hryhorczuk, is a bildungsroman that explores the identity which Alec, a Ukrainian-American college student, struggles to create for himself throughout his journey through Europe and the places he grew up in. On the “Offbeat Europe” tour...

Clear Winter Nights gets right to the heart of many people's Christian experience. Chris has been pushed to a crisis point. He is about to make a decision about God in a time of desperation, right after being cruelly hurt by a person who was...

Chaperones by Megan Karasch is a fantastic novel of self discovery and growing up, even when the main character is already 26. Andrea was so over protected while growing up she never learned anything about life or herself. Her only enjoyment came from behind a...

Ciao by Bethany Lopez is about Melissa and the challenges she faces in her sophomore year at Dearborn High. It's the beginning of a new academic year for Melissa after an enjoyable summer of relaxing and hanging out with friends. She is aware of the...