Heart Shaped Rock by Laura Roppé is a coming of age, yet moving tale about a girl named Shaynee. She is sixteen and is still coping with the raw pangs of grief from losing her mom to cancer. Her dad and little brother have their...

For the last couple of years Julia has dreamed of the high school golden boy, Michael. She has used him to inspire her poetry and music and she has thought herself in love with him. At the graduation ball, he finally asks her to dance...

The Akasha Chronicles, Book 1, Emily's House by Natalie Wright is an epic coming-of-age novel that throws fourteen-year-old Emily into the Sacred Grove, a world she never knew existed. She initially wants no part of it, but she exits from it as a very different...

Lyn Fairchild Hawks' book How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought is the story of a teenage girl (almost 16) who loves Michael Jackson and has nothing else that is stable in her life - everything changes all the time because her...

“I don’t know about this house. It’s old, the floor creaks up here, and sags in places. It’s the second floor, and there’s no window. There’s no window so there’s no moon. I can’t hear any crickets. There’s a window in the hallway, though. A...

In Kharishma, a novel by Jenny L.R. Nay, based on Native American lore, Kharishma, the titular heroine, has just returned home to America after staying in London to escape her past and perhaps change who she is, only to discover she didn't quite like the...

At the End of the Line is a historical novel written by Kathryn Longino. It's also a coming of age story set in the 1950s and 1960s, featuring Beanie, a young Mormon girl who is forced to marry an older Church Elder at the age...

Lemonade Revealed by Will Chluho is a somewhat ground-breaking novel for those wanting a personal philosophical study without spending classroom time. Initially, a boy is discovered unconscious on a Pacific Island beach and when he awakens, he is startled to find three entities attempting to...

Prophase, A Present Tale, is a young adult contemporary fantasy novel written by Mitchel Street. Piper is a senior in high school who lives with her father and younger brother. When her mother died, her father seemed to shrivel and become an angry and bitter...

Balancer by Patrick Wong starts off fast and exciting and doesn’t let up. Two best friends, Nicole and Amy, are on a camping trip that also doubles as the backdrop for their latest YouTube video while also serving as an excuse for Amy to ‘accidentally’...