In Elizabeth Mowery’s The Unwanted Alliance, Adeline Bigsby is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives with her family. She unlocks a rusty gate behind her backyard and enters a hidden realm where time in her world stops. There, she trains with a fighter named Jesse under...

The Treasure of Askelon by Daren Hatfield is the first book in the Dragonrook series. It introduces orphan Arthur Cross, whose journey becomes a swashbuckling odyssey across desert wastes and pirate-infested seas. Marauders led by the brutal and fearsome Thaddeus Schark raid the orphanage, seeking...

In Retrouver: The Rotters Book Two, Jordan Elizabeth returns to the captivating world established in the first book of the series, delivering a narrative that immediately drew me into the chaos and intense world that Felicity and Jack must learn to navigate. I found the...

Misty isn’t too pleased when her family moves to Palmdale, California, far from the big city. Good news: she quickly grows to love the desert’s natural beauty and wildlife. Bad news: her home life is nowhere near as beautiful, despite the facade of a happy...

In the stunning and excellent young adult novel, Too Deep to Drown by Stacy R. Ward, Meg’s life with her mother has always been difficult, and now she is determined to be free. After an unfortunate incident, Meg becomes emancipated and leaves home to take...

In The Moth Dreamer by Amy Lynn Farrell, Aubrey is a teenager trying to reconnect with her Ojibwe roots while coming to terms with her newfound, shocking psychic ability․ She’s spending the summer on her family's traditional lands when she finds an old flint arrowhead....

In Gripped (Part 6: The Dunkin Legacy) by Stacy A. Padula, Taylor Dunkin’s life is in turmoil, and it’s hard to see a clear way out. He used to be a college football star with everything going for him, but a knee injury ended it...

In Dear Dairy by Steve Goldsmith, the story follows Justin Case, a twelve-year-old boy who writes about his life in a diary while dealing with school, family struggles, and the challenges of being dyslexic and mildly autistic. His entries, full of misspellings and made-up words,...

In Rae Knightly’s Doomstar, after surviving imprisonment aboard the battleship Grimstar during the Remnant assault on Enillon, Trinket emerges from the wreckage of war with far more than the memory of the Doomstar crash. A dying prisoner has entrusted her with living beads linked to...

V for Victory by John McKay is a most interesting story set during the occupation of Paris by the Germans from June 1940 to July 1944. Events are seen through the eyes of a young Parisian boy, Charles Mercier, who is 13 years old and...