Indigo, The Deep by Kellye Abernathy introduces Condi, a determined 15-year-old surfer who buries her heartbreak in the adrenaline of surfing after the sudden departure of her first love. Her small beach town is completely falling apart between strange earthquakes and a shady corporate research...

Surfing on Dry Land by Sheryl Recinos is a searing story that documents the struggles of a mother and daughter in two timelines. Ixchel is just fifteen and with a baby when she escapes from her home village in Guatemala because of gang violence, traveling...

Phase by James K. West is an impressive novella for young adults. We are transported to the office of a Washington D.C. law firm and meet twenty-five-year-old Alison Riley, a conscientious, high-performing legal secretary who values her job and the living comforts it provides. Alison...

Mayhem in the Mountains by Jane Loeb Rubin opens with eighteen-year-old Ella deciding to leave Brooklyn behind and head to the Catskills with her younger brother, Robbie, in search of relatives. It is set in the 1920s, a time that shapes so much of what...

UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise by Kelly Mooney and Katy Mooney is a frank, practical career guide written by two sisters who spent decades learning the hard way what nobody told them early enough. Kelly grew up in a small Ohio...

In Lana Stasek's Voices Within, Bella: Beyond the Bark, Bella, a purebred beagle, begins life when she's born inside a breeding barn. Sadly, this is what most will recognize as a puppy mill, where puppies are treated as property and survival depends on staying useful...

Kuni Ruto by Llewellyn Burgess is a political fantasy that follows the story of Arinko Xelha. This begins a decade after the Queendom of Xelha’s civil war with Arinko as the new queen. Young and inexperienced in politics, Arinka was passionate about rebuilding her damaged...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

Jorden Casillas isn’t your average 12-year-old boy. He’s a nahual, half human/half monster who can shape-shift into a snake. When we meet Jorden, his parents are dead, and he works at an artifact shop where his boss, Ernie, is an ogre. It turns out California...

When Catalina Kennedy and her brother Robby are sent to Ireland to train to be Masters of Blades, they expect to be back home in Peru in a short while. Fifteen years later, and still not called back home, the pair is curious about why...