Jay had already lost his father at a very young age, and later he lost his mother, making him an orphan. Jay doesn’t want to be sent to foster care, so he runs away and boards a train to escape, with the intention of eventually...

In Adelma, Where It Is Always Dusk by Roderick Makim is a wide-ranging collection of poetry and prose that moves between outback Australia, Southeast Asia, Antarctica, and the inner landscapes of memory, anger, and wonder. Makim grew up on a farm in the Gulf Country...

The Secret of Tu'ku's Peak: A Tortoise Odyssey by Randy Stollar follows a curious tortoise on his quest to discover a nearly forgotten treasure. Tyler is old enough to want more from life. He doesn't like the ancient rules that all tortoises live by or...

Embrace the Truth is the third book in the Desert of Dreams Series by Amanda LaPera; the story of Misty and her coming-of-age in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Antelope Valley, California. She grew up in a household with a father with a...

Beach Camper Caper by Katlee Davis starts with 14-year-old Mandy Mardell trying to survive a bummer of a summer at a California campground. She is already brooding over failing cheerleader tryouts when things get worse. Someone sneaks into her tent, steals her grandmother’s precious childhood...

The Dangerous Shipment is the first book of The Cogs and Gears of the Cosmos series by Simon Drayton. In the near future, humanity has reached the far trenches of the Nebula. Godwin Dirteon is a seventeen-year-old prodigy among the Gearsmen of the Nebula-Class Ship,...

L.R. Merriman’s The Truth Dancer centers on Elenden deArthis, the isolated third son of a Northern noble family whose ability to perform truth dancing draws attention from hidden spiritual groups, Imperial authorities, and ancient enemies connected to the old elemental schools. After surviving an assassination...

Eafin Lokdore and the Altar of the Sun is the second volume in R.G. Edwards’ The Eafin Lokdore Trilogy. Master Magician Eafin Lokdore is fifteen years old and grief-stricken when he sets out on the impossible mission to overthrow Sorfin, the usurper, and restore the...

Nebraska Avenue by Vincent Rubino is a coming-of-age novel set during the summer of 1976 in North Bay Shore on Long Island. The story centers on Artie Mooney, Wally Tazowski, and Vinny Perino, three boys navigating adolescence in a neighborhood called “The States,” where streets...

After meeting for the first time in months, Taylor and his youngest brother, Marc Dunkin, have reconciled, and Taylor has even agreed to go home to Montgomery, Massachusetts, for Easter. And because Jordan Dunkin was also flying in from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,...