Annalise Grey completely captures the highs and lows, dreams, and insecurities of the average 14-year-old teen through her protagonist, Carleigh, in I, Girl X. Carleigh’s hopes for a happy future are slowly sabotaged by her younger brother’s erratic and unstable mental and physical behavior. As...

A Kiss for Maggie Moore by Micki R. Pettit is a coming-of-age drama novel that follows the lives of three childhood friends in rural Wyoming from the late 60s to early 70s. Margaret Emma Moore and her best friend Buckingham Howard Majors welcome another addition...

Bridgette Dutta Portman's YA fantasy novel The Twin Stars: Book One of the Coseema Saga is an incredibly imaginative space fantasy and coming-of-age story with strong themes. Olive Joshi, 16, is the principal character. She has OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Driven by fears and anxieties, she...

The Souvenir Game is a young adult coming-of-age thriller written by Christopher Renna. Sixteen-year-old Spencer Newhouse spends his time hanging out with the Wyatt Five, a group of five upper-class and somewhat privileged kids who are inseparable from each other. While playing the Souvenir Game,...

The Diary of Anne Monroe is written by Heidi Andrews and tells the story of a 13-year-old girl, Margaret Sorenson, set in Alexandria, Virginia in 1952. Margaret is adopted and feels that she is not entirely accepted by her adopted mother and father who went...

Brilliant White Peaks is a survival adventure tale written by Teng Rong. Written from the perspective of a young wolf, it follows a small wolf family as they battle harsh weather conditions, scarcity of food, and other predators to survive in the wild. Raised by...

Sins of the Parents: A Shady Corners Tale by K.C. Sprayberry is an absolutely delightful coming-of-age novel set in the small Georgian town of Shady Corners. Luci and Skye are cousins, who remarkably look like twins and were born on the same day. They have...

Ballad of the Blacksmith's Son by Rick Taylor is a young adult adventure tale with religious undertones. Set in the dark ages, the book follows the lives of the inhabitants of a Viking village. Keri Ellison is a blacksmith's son. Like other young men of...

The Battle Maid is a work of fantasy fiction by Claudia Callander. Karma, at fifteen, is invisible, metaphorically speaking. At least, most of the time. When her peers get it in their heads to torment her, the bullying can be intense. At least Karma has...

Gallant: The Call of the Trail, exquisitely written by Claire Eckard and magnificently illustrated by Phylicia Mann, tells the story (“two horses, two people, one journey”) of Gracie’s lifelong love and devotion for her stallion Gallant as the story is read to Tommy, age 7,...