In Joe Paul’s The Trouble with Troop 94, fourteen-year-old Robbie McDaniel moves to Seattle with his mother in 1999, two and a half years after his father’s death. At Queen Anne High, Robbie finds himself alone until he discovers a photo album documenting his father’s...

Brent Newcomb’s Of Inklings and Willowpillars is a Victorian fantasy adventure set in 1877, when five young friends in Vanover call themselves the Inklings. Mary Doyle shares the club with her twin brothers, Charles and Jules, while their neighbors Charlotte and Edgar Precious complete the...

The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume I - The Fall of Edmond Dantès, by Alexandre Dumas and Ian Kirs, is the first of twelve graphic novels and begins with Edmond, our handsome hero, at only nineteen. He is a humble youth and obedient to his...

In The Road Beside by Fred Gracely, Willow Barnes wakes up in a grim Warwick apartment to an “URGENT!!!” message from the father who vanished after her mother's death. It is her first birthday since her mother died, and she wants nothing to do with...

Marius Trevelean’s Area 52 follows twelve-year-old Sally Parker, who hopes to join the University of Edinburgh’s hidden Faculty of Weird, where her aunt, Doctor Jemima Whatsit, investigates creatures dismissed as myth. A field assignment gives Sally her chance when legendary beings begin disappearing from sites...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a tiny animal-being known as a Ses, who belongs to London’s Pride, disappears after receiving a forged message that sends him to Venice on a secret assignment. His friend Jaspa, the primary protagonist, leads a small group...

Cities are burning across the world, while their inhabitants die from a strange and terrifying madness that leaves nothing standing. No one knows where the sudden onset of insanity comes from. It’s like an unidentified virus creeping through the population. Emile and Ian are outliers...

In Carla Beene’s The Twin Within, our seventh-grade protagonist, Cassie Cortez, has a tough time navigating school in Santa Fe while dealing with cruel school bullies and the physical limitations of mild cerebral palsy. Although her parents provide her with a loving home, Cassie has...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...