In 1925, Rita Reilly was born to a middle-class Irish family and grew up in a sheltered home with lots of love. Her family is well-off financially, owning a booming grocery and newsagent store with their living quarters above. When her family travels to Wicklow...

Tempting Fake by Tracey Morait is a YA novel about growing pains. Adam and Cherry are two boarding school students living at opposite ends of England. Cherry's mother is newly married to a womanizing rich pedophile, and Cherry is glad to be away from him...

This gripping tale of determination and grit is a celebration of female resilience. Crafted in poetic language, The Ascenditure by Robyn Dabney follows Klarke Ascher, a passionate young woman who wants nothing but to become a member of the kingdom's elite climbing team. She wants...

In Katherine Tirado-Ryen’s The Secrets Inside, Connie had everything mapped out. A promising future with a scholarship meant boys never turned her head. She’d much rather have a new project to focus on. Chemistry was her passion, her love, until a different kind of chemistry...

The Accidental Education is book 2 in Kos Play’s System School series. To us, the Los Angeles Times is just an old newspaper building. But its age and history mean it has another use. Unknown to mere mortals, those of the non-magical world, the place...

The Train from the Atlantic by Cezar-Adrian Șercan is a coming-of-age gem that follows the vibrant life of Alin, a Romanian-American high school student in Detroit. Filled with a passion for life, Alin navigates the exhilarating highs and challenging lows of adolescence. Along with his...

The 1950s saw a pivotal transformation and boom in the availability of entertainment and luxuries. However, these were not primarily intended for children, which meant youngsters had to find their own forms of entertainment. For 12-year-old Robert Gunkel, most of his fun came in the...

Trail Magic: Lost in Crawford Notch by M.H. Sullivan is a YA adventure story. Alex Jackson runs a campground in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire. After losing his wife to a bombing, he wanted to start again with his daughter Angie. While Angie is meant to...

The Thief and the Historian by Brendan Corbett is the first book in the Runetree Chronicles. Aeda has made a living working as a thief for the Grey Society and, though she has misgivings about stealing, she does what she has to. But when a...

The Rogue of Darkfae City by Richard T. Drake is the first novel in the Wardens of Lor series. It begins with Kado Tacano, a poor orphaned street thief tasked with hunting down an evil creature, a job assigned to his gang by their overlord,...