Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey is an edgy YA novel that you'll long remember. The main character is a young teenage girl named Iphigenia out to find a missing mother and escape things going on at home. But things go from bad to worse as...

Felicia Farber's Ice Queen is a young adult novel that on the surface appears as many young adult novels do – there's some kind of arch-nemesis and some form of a love story. But, beneath the surface, Farber weaves a dynamic cautionary tale that teenagers...

In Independence Day by Rachel Teller, a beautiful yet cranky teenage girl named Candace Wisenhardt is on the verge of having everything she ever wanted—a life of relative peace being the girlfriend, fiancee, then wife of her hockey star boyfriend, Mitchell Harlow, as he joins...

It Never Happened by H. Pike is an admirable debut novel. To venture into writing a credible psychological thriller can be a challenge even for seasoned authors, but H. Pike has pulled it off. The author has created an engaging protagonist in Campbell Richards, whose...

I Love You Like That: A Novel by Heather Cumiskey is the second novel in a series about a young girl who finds that loving someone is not as easy as it is said. Hannah was just trying to get back on her feet after...

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. How many times do we hear this in a lifetime? Jennifer Taylor seems to have it all. The money, the looks, the grades, the boy… Carolyn Samuels has lived in Jennifer’s shadow...

Kyle has no money to buy his dad a birthday gift and so he decides to sell his dad’s old shoes in the story I’m Selling My Dad’s Shoes (My Crazy Story Series) by Daniel Georges. He takes them from the shoe cupboard and sneaks...

It’s Free: So What Could Go Wrong? by Carol Hadley is a book written for young adults and tells the story of Andi who ‘wins’ a horse in a competition. She has always been mad about horses and this thoroughbred is exactly what she...

A.M. Watson’s Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story recounts the story of a handful of boys all but enslaved by a master chimney sweep. With his widowed mother desperate for money, Egan Whitcombe, aged six, is apprenticed to Daniel Armory for three crowns,...

Sixteen-year-old Hannah Zandana is not a conventional good looker. She has a spotty complexion and wild hair. Her parents also make her feel ugly and constantly criticize her looks. Her father calls her a dirty harlot and her mother always turns her back on Hannah....