Vicky’s Victory by Nadine C. Keels is the first installment in the Malt Shop Milestones series. It opens with sixteen-year-old Vicky Phillips spending the last Saturday of summer vacation at Bro Brown’s Burgers and Malts, sipping her favorite strawberry ice cream soda just before junior...

The Lunch Money Treasure is a children's mystery adventure by Gary Rivera. Smoochie, an eleven-year-old girl, is excited to start her sixth-grade classes at Osceola Middle School. Mr. Cavanaugh, the summer camp counselor, regales Smoochie and her classmates with the story of a former school...

Successful Life Skills For Teens by Chad K. Smith is a self-help manual for young adults and adolescents that teaches them how to cope and excel in life. The book explores 12 key skills, the most crucial of which are developing self-confidence, social skills, time...

The Huxian Fox by Nikki Brooke is an action-packed sci-fi novel that follows Fan Sung, a charismatic captain of the ship 'Huxian Fox.' It begins with Gussart, a crime lord whom Fun had tried to steal from, chasing Fan. Fan must get to the Huxian...

At first glance, Jodie Chalker appears to be a typical sixteen-year-old teenager dealing with detachment as part of her growing pains. Yet closer inspection, as you turn the pages, reveals something more disturbing. In Visions of Tomorrow by Luis Ammerman. Jodie is constantly haunted by...

A Summer Lasts Forever by Tamar Anolic is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel told through alternating perspectives that capture the emotions of a teen uprooted from her familiar life into a very different one in a small Vermont town. Readers meet Ginny and Sam as they...

Andrea Beck’s Below the Surface is a young adult novel that examines the challenges of fitting into a new community, the burden of judgment, and the effects of tragedy. Set in the seemingly perfect town of Oak Park, the story follows Emily Libert, a sixteen-year-old...

The Cartography of First Love by Angela Grey is an unusual, but completely compelling story of first love encountered in a most unusual location – a psychiatric institution. Fifteen-year-old Zibby is confined because of her eating disorder, and sixteen-year-old Nico suffers from depression and anxiety....

Fifteen-year-old Jessie Oliver, a late-developing empath, was grappling with her unique abilities, and it was all taking a toll on her. Apart from having seizures and her health deteriorating, she could not control her lapses into the in-between world, a realm between the dead and...

Craig Staufenberg's The Girl Who Came Back To Life is the story of a young girl who recently lost her parents. Twelve-year-old Sophie struggles to deal with the loss of her parents, who unexpectedly passed away, sending her to live with her distant grandmother, who...