In Limbo Over Lyme Disease is about a teenage boy who had been sick for a long time, only to find out that he had been suffering from Lyme disease and co-infections caused by said disease. We learn that Lyme disease comes from ticks that...

Entering her first year in high school, a gifted teen determines to be a typical teenage student in the brilliant coming of age novel, Needing Normal (Freshman Year) by Emme Grange. Jett Harper's intelligence is above average. Accustomed to excelling in school, she is expecting...

Molly and her best friend Nicole have been inseparable since the day that they met back in kindergarten. Now entering fifth grade, the two girls are accepted into a new school in a better neighborhood because of how gifted and smart they are. Molly soon...

In Daphne’s Questionable Bet by Sara Jo Cluff, it’s just 16-year-old Daphne and her mom ever since her dad passed away. After moving back to California, her mom’s old high school rivalry is somehow reignited through Daphne and the rival’s daughter, Sierra Winters. The girls...

Lauren Clark's novel At Least I Can Dream: Voyage is a young adult adventure story. Evangeline, or Evi, is the narrator. She is 17 and a patient with terminal cancer in a Spokane hospital. Every night she has disturbing nightmares. The hospital has a program...

The Yellow Dinghy Café by Sophie Chenoweth is a touching, gentle, coming-of-age novel set in Australia. Three young women, Jasmine, Michaela, and Cybelle, were high school friends who had just completed their studies at an exclusive Sydney girls’ school and were setting out on the...

Broken Dreams is the second installment in the Spiraling series by H.L. Karhoff. Here you follow a deceptively simple young adult drama about the coming of age of Tori Douglas. If you put yourself in Tori’s shoes, you won’t have a second thought about punching...

Rock and Roll Children: An 80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story by Sean Frazier is a rollicking ride filled with nostalgia that will have an irresistible appeal to fans of Rock 'n’ Roll and the culture in which it burgeoned and blossomed. The story follows...

On the Way to Birdland by Frank Morelli is an enjoyable coming-of-age story that is deftly written. Cordell Wheaton feels like living in a shell after his brother Travis goes off without warning. He has had one of his habitual quarrels with his father. Now,...

Nate and Gabrielle are two teenagers in love, eager to start their junior year of high school. However, their lives turn upside down when Gabrielle discloses that she is pregnant with Nate's child. Struggling to process the momentous news, Nate and Gabrielle slowly try to...