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...

Youth of Planet Earth Are Rising is the sequel to Ben Storm's Youth of Planet Earth: Arise. It's been a year since Sean Dempsey and his family moved to the village of Eastport, Pennsylvania. Sean is a senior at Eastport High and has taken an...

In Eafin Lokdore and the Ancient Secret by R. G. Edwards, a teen sets out from his homeland on a quest to recover an ancient power meant to return light to a struggling world. Guided by the writings of his late father, our young hero,...

Indigo, The Deep by Kellye Abernathy introduces Condi, a determined 15-year-old surfer who buries her heartbreak in the adrenaline of surfing after the sudden departure of her first love. Her small beach town is completely falling apart between strange earthquakes and a shady corporate research...

Phase by James K. West is an impressive novella for young adults. We are transported to the office of a Washington D.C. law firm and meet twenty-five-year-old Alison Riley, a conscientious, high-performing legal secretary who values her job and the living comforts it provides. Alison...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

In Midnight Reverie by Hermione Lee, Cyndi Osmond wakes up from a dream of a royal wedding to the nightmare of her real life as a housemaid. In this version of the Cinderella story, there was no magic to get her to the ball, so...

Endymion and the Fae: A Tale of Liamec by J. Steven Lamperti follows a young shepherd named Endymion. He is living a quiet life in the mountain village of Woolford. But that changes one day, when he notices that his simple midday meal is mysteriously...

In the epic fantasy Zodiac: The Talismans Rising by Kyrie Dunphy, X takes an artifact called the Yin Scroll from a hidden chamber beneath a jungle cenote, and in doing so triggers a massive chain reaction. This disrupts the system governing a realm called Sheng...