What would you do if you had superhuman powers that others didn't know about? For fourteen-year-old Gem, it's just another incredible part of her identity that she has to hide. Precious Gem by K. N. Martin introduces us to a courageous and resilient teen girl,...

ARCA Academy: La Chouchoute by J. S. Gentry is the story of Emma Blakely, who is starting her new life at ARCA Academy. Emma grapples with self-esteem and fitting in at a new school where everything is new to her. However, her life is brightened...

Loss of the Unguarded is the first book in the Descendants of Angels series by Tracy Daley. This imaginative and exciting paranormal young adult novel will have you sitting on the edge of your seat until the end. Treadon Nelson is a high school football...

Two by Nathan Nicolau is a riveting coming-of-age novel for young adult fans of drama and mystery. Howl studies business administration at UNCC. He loves to read in Charlotte's Romare Bearden Park. There, he notices a weird girl passionately speaking to a statue in Italian....

In A Disappearing World by Julia Kitlinski-Hong, Violet Chen has always been the black sheep of her family. Her clothes get disapproving looks, she can never measure up to her older sister Bella, a student at Johns Hopkins, and her anxiety weighs heavy on her,...

It’s 1976 and Harmony McVeigh has a love for music. She has a musical name, but she was actually named after her father’s boat. Harmony’s rise to fame begins with Chopin and the fervor of a music teacher inspired by the nineteenth-century great piano composer....

The Secrets of Olthamol is a young adult sci-fi novel by Jed Saba and Jeff Prahl. Ayden Ladders has always felt different. Since moving to Springfield, Missouri as a young boy with his father, inexplicable events have occurred around him. After losing control of his...

There’s a fairy curse on Mairi’s family. After her father’s death, Mairi and her brother, Jamie, are living in the mountains of northern California, with their grandfather. It is here she learns of the curse and is transported back in time to another Mairi, in...

Spirals of Stardust is a young adult sci-fi novella by Diane C. Jerome. In the 23rd century, all the rainforests have vanished from Earth except one. Animals have been implanted with cloned human genes, and humanity has ensured its survival by merging itself with the...

Alina: A Song for the Telling by Malve von Hassell is a coming-of-age novel that will draw readers into an intriguing and historical journey back to twelfth-century Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. Alina and Milos are siblings who have been left orphaned after...