Runaway Train is a romance by Simon Doyle. After coming out unexpectedly in front of his devout Christian mother, nineteen-year-old Denis Murphy finds himself without a home as his mother throws him out for being gay. Plagued with thoughts of his father, who committed suicide...

See space in a new light with Parker Lorre’s intriguing space adventure, Helios High. Soar through the skies with a ragtag team of teens as they deal with crushes, self-image, popularity, and a mystery of galactic proportions. There’s the mysterious new student, Thripis; Skreex, a...

Touch by Rebecca Miller is the story of two troubled teens, Megan and Shawn, whose lives intersect in a small town and are changed forever. Megan and her brothers are starting over in a new town, a fresh start their father says, after the tragic...

Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon by D.M. Mahoney is an absolute gem that will have you hooked from the moment you delve into this poignant and powerful novel. In Oregon in the early 1940s, being female, half-Jewish, as well as being a teenage pilot...

My Boys, by Ronald L. Ruiz, is a fictional YA drama. Abel Mendoza finds himself at the end of an unfulfilling career as a Public Defender. He has been passed over for promotions and as he feels more and more unable to help his young...

The Ghost Hunter is a young adult paranormal mystery novel by Steve Altier. After being bullied his entire school life, sixteen-year-old prodigy Gerald Dupickle hopes to turn things around in college. However, mistakenly presuming a group of black t-shirt-wearing students to be pulling pranks on...

Pushing Pawns is the first book in The Chess Club series by Dima Novak. Moses Middleton gathers a team of individuals for a scholastic chess tournament. However, when they lose miserably, Moses is afraid their ragtag team of chess players will split up, and his...

Chasing the Stars is the second book of the Campfire Series by Melanie Hooyenga. Seventeen-year-old Naomi McGinnis runs a popular podcast with her younger twin brother Theo. But she finds herself unwittingly committing to a camping trip with her family to Salt Lake when her...

Hear Me Roar by Mindi Hood is a most interesting yet difficult memoir to read without crying and getting angry with adults and the powers that be. It is very much a must-read for every young girl or even young boy who is starting to...

If We Don’t by Jordie Cole is a dystopian novel that follows the life of Issa Cruz. It is an exciting and heartbreaking story about a young man who is thought to be the prophesied one. He is believed to be the boy who will...