Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella is the heartbreaking story of a 13-year-old boy as he is forced to face a harsh world that doesn’t seem to understand him, yet he understands the world pretty well. Charlie’s mother is an addict, and somehow he pays the...

Growing up can be challenging. During our teenage years, we're more aware of the world around us. In Dreaded Dinner Party by Destiny Henderson, Aucuria 'Curi' Andrews is learning a lot about herself, her neighbors, her parents, and their friends. Curi's parents frequently have parties...

Death and Other Side Effects by Rose Maldonado is a beautiful story told from the perspective of a sixteen-year-old girl with an inoperable brain tumor. Alexis lives in a nursing home and has all but given up on life until she meets Jonah, a one-legged...

Daughter Departed by Claire Merchant is a wonderful coming of age story. After her graduation, Amelia Saber worked at her father’s public relations group. A great and respectable job, but she felt “like a caged tiger... alone in the castle but not in the world.”...

Detention Land: Lip Service by Susan Orion is a great read with compelling characters and an interesting plot, a story with great psychological depth. A teenage boy finds himself trapped in a small room, not knowing why. He is devoid of any contact with the...

Dawn is a very enthusiastic freshman. She is also a very talented singer. So when she attaches herself to second year Rose, a songwriter in secret, she opens up a part of Rose’s talent that even she didn’t know existed. And, with Rose’s friends, they...

Dare to Dream: A Novel by Heidi Thomas is an inspirational book for women. The story is set in the 1940s and is about cowgirl Nettie Brady Moser. Nettie has dreams of riding the big broncs, but since she is a woman she is not...

Elizabeth Waters is a young girl with a secret in Devil’s Playground by Heather Eagar, and in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, that is not a good thing. During the rush to purge witches from Salem, Elizabeth gets caught up in trying to protect innocent women,...

Desert Dwellers Born By Fire is a young adult science fiction novel by author Sarah Bergstrom, and the first book in The Paintbrush Saga. The desert dwellers of the title are a young trio - Khalid, Lahcen and Qeriya - siblings cut off from the...

In Dreamscape: Saving Alex by Kirstin Pulioff, Alexis Stone's life as she knew it was coming to an end and there was nothing she could do about it. Her mom had just informed her that instead of the three months they had promised her before...