Before You Can Fly by Jase Peeples is a coming-of-age novel with a twist. Fifteen-year-old Clayton Wheeler is not your average high school boy. He feels he is too tall, too awkward, and he has feelings and urges he doesn’t totally understand. At school, he...

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...

Always Here: Widowed With Young Children by Jesse Kuhn is a grief companion written specifically for parents raising kids alone after losing a spouse, a narrow, deeply specific audience that most grief books overlook entirely. The book unfolds across four parts, from understanding grief in...

The Urban Legend of the Gold Key by D.K. Zier follows Cate Smith Cruz, who just wants to belong. Cate is a music-obsessed teenager who has moved around her whole life. Living next to one of California's largest cemeteries, Cate has always been drawn to...

Beyond Her Selfie by Preston Copeland is a heartwarming coming-of-age story that follows two endearing friends throughout their international travels. Robi and her best friend Marquetta travel through San Francisco, New York City, Lisbon, and Edinburgh during the summer following their high school graduation. Robi’s...

C.S. Pascoal’s Accidental Tribes charts the unexpected path of eight isolated teenagers thrown into a strange disciplinary space known as Solitaria. This high-pressure environment in Room 359 at PS 555 unites several tech-loving rule-breakers overseen by school advisor Dr. Miryam. The moment a sudden theft...

The Farmer's Wife and the MenoClucks by Barbara Elizabeth takes the touchy subject of menopause and explains it through her hens as they grow older and can no longer meet the demands of a rooster who rules the yard. He doesn't account for the fact...

The Boy Who Lost His Voice by Ellen van Schoten combines striking black-and-white illustrations and lovely storytelling to create an unforgettable book. In it, a twelve-year-old boy named Willem loses his voice, which sends him on a journey throughout his hometown of Delft in the...

Searching for Full: How GLP-1s Changed My Eating-Disordered Life by Paige Gordon is a memoir that traces many years of bulimia nervosa, beginning in childhood and tangled up with trauma, family strain, and years of treatments that never quite worked. The book opens with an...

In Shami Stovall’s The Last Rift Dragon, seventeen-year-old Richter Whitlock is training to become a Knight of the Silver Fog, one of the dragon riders who protect Bridgehaven, a city spread across 112 islands. Only three dragons remain in the known world, leaving the order...