In Mohammed Zahid’s What Can Not Be Said, thirteen-year-old Arjun loses his mother Kaveri suddenly, leaving him and his father Ashok Kumar to rebuild their daily lives around one another. The return to school restores routine, yet ordinary outings remind Arjun of the home they...

In Adrian Cox’s The Day of Knights, Graham Kelly is a Perth data-entry worker who loves medieval history but has no one to share it with. His colleagues dismiss his interests, his evenings are solitary, and his mother, Patricia, treats every call as a demand...

The Ghost Ring: Lost Souls of Caligo Falls by Tom Hoffman is book 5 in the series. Simon Moody and Clara Barley are ready for a quiet summer in Caligo Falls until attorney Marion Jaggers hands them their first paid job: a derelict Manhattan hotel,...

Jay Horne’s The Hamper of Horrors is the story of thirteen-year-old Tanner, a normal teenager struggling with babysitting duties, family friction, and the embarrassments adolescents endure every day. What begins as the ordinary annoyance of Tanner leaving dirty clothes on the floor takes an unexpected...

In the 1830s, settler-colonists passed laws to enforce the mass removal of Native Americans from their land. The Chickasaw tribe in West Tennessee was among the many tribes displaced, but before leaving, they cursed their ancestral land. In 1940, a wealthy land developer purchased land...

In Harry Allen’s YA novel, Children of the Sun, Ra Eun Seo is a gifted singer in a poor North Korean town who dreams of performing at Pyongyang’s Festival of the Sun. She and her friends, the guilt-ridden Nari and the resourceful Min, stumble upon...

Daniel Royer’s Aben Almighty follows Aben, an Astroknight returning from the Rift war, as his squad is sent to Planet Taggert to secure an alliance with a people who judge outsiders through ordeal. To pass among them, Aben and his team accept mutations that turn...

Downfall by Abigail Morrison is set in Castia, a snowbound city built in strict levels, where engineering student Rebecca Dalton discovers that strange power surges near the great support pillars may be manufactured. When she investigates one signal, she is attacked and wakes up in...

Amoura Awakened by Meg Kramer follows sixteen-year-old Amoura Renly, who discovers she is a witch after she inadvertently performs an insane magical act at her human school. There is only one way out for her: to be transferred to the respected Elderwood School for the...

Jay had already lost his father at a very young age, and later he lost his mother, making him an orphan. Jay doesn’t want to be sent to foster care, so he runs away and boards a train to escape, with the intention of eventually...