My Boyfriend Is a Swamp Monster: My Monster Meet Cute Book 1 by Paige Lavoie is a romance that quickly became my next obsession. For years, Marina had been convincing herself that her first and only friend was simply the imagination of a lonely child....

Cheryl Carpinello’s Feathers of the Phoenix follows Rosa and her cousin Jerome after the ancient Atlantean Mneseus arrives with news that the second Phoenix Feather is ready to be found. The five Feathers must one day reunite with the Atlantean Horse so Atlantis can rise,...

Jane Frances Ruby’s The Azurite Encounter is about a high school geology field trip to the Grand Canyon that is disrupted by inclement weather. High school senior Desiree Sumner still misses her grandpa, who has hiked the canyon several times. Now she carries his journal...

D. Michael Hewlett’s And All Because I Couldn’t Sleep One Night follows Carter Jackson, whose restlessness pushes him into the humid night in Williamstown, where he sees a mysterious figure planting For Sale signs on the Bonners’ lawn. That figure turns out to be Lindsey...

Jay had already lost his father at a very young age, and later he lost his mother, making him an orphan. Jay doesn’t want to be sent to foster care, so he runs away and boards a train to escape, with the intention of eventually...

The Secret of Tu'ku's Peak: A Tortoise Odyssey by Randy Stollar follows a curious tortoise on his quest to discover a nearly forgotten treasure. Tyler is old enough to want more from life. He doesn't like the ancient rules that all tortoises live by or...

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...

Beach Camper Caper by Katlee Davis starts with 14-year-old Mandy Mardell trying to survive a bummer of a summer at a California campground. She is already brooding over failing cheerleader tryouts when things get worse. Someone sneaks into her tent, steals her grandmother’s precious childhood...

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,...