Summer of Dust and Ash is the second book in the Stone and Scale series by Ana Lee. The story of Wilder continues as he faces yet another high-stakes challenge. An attack on the New Orleans Council House forces Wilder and his friends to escape...

In Eric Brown’s The Secrets of Seabrook, as winter closes in on Seabrook Harbor, teenager Jonah Harris notices that a missing dockworker’s case is being dismissed far too quickly. When Josh Hoggins vanishes after a public confrontation at the marina, the town accepts an easy...

In the stunning and excellent young adult novel, Too Deep to Drown by Stacy R. Ward, Meg’s life with her mother has always been difficult, and now she is determined to be free. After an unfortunate incident, Meg becomes emancipated and leaves home to take...

In Rae Knightly’s Doomstar, after surviving imprisonment aboard the battleship Grimstar during the Remnant assault on Enillon, Trinket emerges from the wreckage of war with far more than the memory of the Doomstar crash. A dying prisoner has entrusted her with living beads linked to...

In Nell by L. K. Campbell, two siblings, Nell and Ben Howard, run away from home after a bad argument with their mother into the dense woods. There, they are transported into a world that shares similarities to ours, Drayward. In Drayward, Nell discovers that...

After King Anu’s death, Prince Anton emerges as the heir at the very moment Aries comes under threat. While Queen Falani works to keep the court united and the kingdom stable, Anton is pulled into direct action when attacks on a vital river crossing place...

Murasaki: Seasons of the Sword Book 4 by David Kudler is about Kano Murasaki, also called Risuko, a girl growing up during Japan’s civil war. After her father is disgraced and sent away, her mother ends up selling her to a hidden school where girls...

What We Found Last Summer by Javier De Lucia follows twelve-year-olds Calvin and Derek as they try to enjoy a carefree summer in their quiet Connecticut suburb. The summer has a distinctly 1980s feel as they build treehouses, ride their bikes, and hang out with...

In Outsiders by C. L. Richardson, the story follows Robin Winters, a young Legion officer whose life unravels after one mistake turns her into a target of the very system she once served. Cast out of the fortified city of New Manhattan, she has to...

Billy struggles to cope with his mother's passing to the point that he becomes miserable when his father remarries. All attempts to draw him out of his shell fail, as the young boy prefers to comfort himself with memories of his late mother. When his...