A Yankee Airman and his Southern Belle by Rita Morrin opens at 3 A.M. on December 8, 1973, with a phone call in a cold Anchorage apartment that no military wife ever wants to receive. Rita's husband Ken, an Air Force man from upstate New...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....

And Then He Pressed Play: Track One by Robert Halliwell is the story of Arlo “A.J.” Walker, a shy yet musically gifted Canadian exchange student at Glenbridge Secondary in Ireland. The cultural differences are overwhelming for him, and in addition to his unique accent, he...

A Sanguinary Rose by E. L. Luengo follows Scarlett Rosenbaum, a high school student who lives in Farpoint, Washington. After a terrible night at a party, she is attacked while walking home and wakes up as a vampire. As she tries to manage new urges...

When Paige Turner, a high school student and aspiring writer from San Francisco, receives an email invitation to a young sci-fi writers' conference in Michigan, she is elated and in disbelief. She was finally going to meet Pymm Jatterson, a renowned sci-fi author and her...

In Angel of Ashes by Erika Kathryn, Audie has dreamed about discovering what else is out there. At thirteen, all she’s ever known is what she’s learned in homeschool and what her father, August, has taught her. She never asked for wings and certainly never...

A Summer Lasts Forever by Tamar Anolic is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel told through alternating perspectives that capture the emotions of a teen uprooted from her familiar life into a very different one in a small Vermont town. Readers meet Ginny and Sam as they...

A Summer to Treasure by Leslea Wahl revolves around Luke, Celia, and Austin, three siblings who aren’t remotely keen on spending their summer vacation together during a family road trip. But when their vivacious grandmother—who may be nearing the end of her life—suggests they reenact...

Avatars of Destiny: Reckoning by Ess‑Jee Rautenbach brings his epic YA series to a breathtaking crescendo. We’re back with Kael and his allies, who are scarred but triumphant from past battles. It’s time for them to confront the collapse of the prison that once bound...