The Stone Doorway by Cassandra Scherer is an enjoyable, fast-paced YA fantasy. As we learn about the life of Tori McKenna, we are transported from a typical suburban life of a troubled teenager into a fantastical world filled with both wonderment and anguish. For Tori...

Desert Rain could have been adored and showered with gifts like any other Hijn. Instead, she sought isolation, visiting the town on rare occasions, but keeping to herself led the people there to believe her to be a charmer ... until her secret was revealed....

A young man must accept his painful past and face an uncertain future in the young adult novel, The Staircase of Fire by Ben Woodard. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is no stranger to heartbreak and grief. After an unfortunate accident leaves him an orphan and the...

Riley McCullough's summer in The Summer the World Ended by Matthew S. Cox does not start out very promisingly. She and her best friend had planned to spend the summer together, but then her friend's parents take her on a two-week holiday in Puerto Vallarta....

In The Adventures of Anuk by Suzanne Mondoux, Anuk has spent a happy childhood in the Inn with her guardians, Julea and Lucca. On her sixteenth birthday, she discovers that she has to return to her place of birth, Roese Island. Anuk is not pleased,...

The Clan Calling: Chronicle Two – Sadie by Wendy Terrien is part of the Adventures of Jason Lex series. Sadie's life is just getting back to normal when her best friend, Jason, and his uncle suddenly take off for London and her grandmother becomes mysteriously...

The Juniper Sawfeather Trilogy by D.G. Driver consists of Cry of the Sea, Whisper of the Woods, and Echo of the Cliffs. In Cry of the Sea, an oil spill drives Juniper's activist parents into action, but her life changes drastically when they pull mermaids...

Time of the Stonechosen by Thomas Quinn Miller is the second book in the Soulstone Prophecy series. Ghile has left home to begin his journey as the Stonechosen with Gaidel, Riff, and Two Elks traveling at his side to protect him. After a battle sends...

The League of Governors: Chronicle Two – Jason by Wendy Terrien is an Adventures of Jason Lex novel. Jason saved the world, but he wasn't able to save his mom. He's trying to get his life back together now that he knows a secret world...

Princess Oona Talomir is quite strange. Her somewhat testy manner and appreciation for the finer things in life mark her as a pampered girl, even as her pure heart and dedication to her gods hint at the strong woman she will become, provided the assassins...