The Ghost Ring: Lost Souls of Caligo Falls by Tom Hoffman is book 5 in the series. Simon Moody and Clara Barley are ready for a quiet summer in Caligo Falls until attorney Marion Jaggers hands them their first paid job: a derelict Manhattan hotel,...

Jay Horne’s The Hamper of Horrors is the story of thirteen-year-old Tanner, a normal teenager struggling with babysitting duties, family friction, and the embarrassments adolescents endure every day. What begins as the ordinary annoyance of Tanner leaving dirty clothes on the floor takes an unexpected...

In the 1830s, settler-colonists passed laws to enforce the mass removal of Native Americans from their land. The Chickasaw tribe in West Tennessee was among the many tribes displaced, but before leaving, they cursed their ancestral land. In 1940, a wealthy land developer purchased land...

In Harry Allen’s YA novel, Children of the Sun, Ra Eun Seo is a gifted singer in a poor North Korean town who dreams of performing at Pyongyang’s Festival of the Sun. She and her friends, the guilt-ridden Nari and the resourceful Min, stumble upon...

Daniel Royer’s Aben Almighty follows Aben, an Astroknight returning from the Rift war, as his squad is sent to Planet Taggert to secure an alliance with a people who judge outsiders through ordeal. To pass among them, Aben and his team accept mutations that turn...

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...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

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...

In Lotte Skale and the Wyvern Hatchery by Shanna P. Lowe, fourteen-year-old Lotte helps her father operate a hatchery and sanctuary for endangered wyverns, winged, serpentine creatures that are hunted by the tyrant, King Bouldermaul. The regime in Asoleenya is anti-magic, and this means Lotte...

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...