High school can be complicated, dramatic and sheltering and author A. Anon brings these struggles to life in How to Talk to Black People. Knowing she will never fit in, due to coming from a poor and broken family, Ivy has built a strong defense...

Breaking the Barriers by B.B. Swann is the story of Cindy Wilson and Mike Ryan who are high school seniors and in a relationship. Their relationship is a secret mainly because of Cindy's mother who does not want her to be in one until she...

Inspired by Paul W. Rice’s personal experiences in Ethiopia, The Orphan: A Portrait of Courage is an inspiring historical novel about a strong woman named Yodit. Her story begins in 1983, during one of Ethiopia’s worst droughts. An orphan after her father murdered her mother,...

Will’s life is unconventional enough, living with his mentally unbalanced mother in a less than desirable neighborhood while doing his best to maintain a passable high school persona. He really doesn’t need the added pressure of advice from the strange gypsy woman who appears to...

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...

Seventeen-year-old Liam lived in an unusual house with his grandfather. It had no windows. They had a messy store in the front part of the house where they sold a variety of used items. Liam helped his grandfather in the store and tried to restore...

The Tunes of Lenore: When You Go to Boarding School Bring Your Friends by J.T. Blossom is a gripping coming of age story that features a compelling female protagonist. Set in the future in 2026, the novel tells the story of sixteen-year-old Ella, an intelligent...

Set in the 1970s in New York State's Catskill Mountains, Liberty Loomis by Susan Denman is about Mayzie Jenkins who wants to become a doctor. She starts working at Liberty Loomis Hospital for eight weeks one summer. Liberty Loomis does not look like a typical...

The Little Light is a fascinating fairy tale style story for children and young adults written by author Dipa Sanatani. Promising ‘A Story of Reincarnation and the Crazy Cosmic Family’, the book seeks to awaken philosophical and spiritual considerations within its young readers by presenting...

It all starts with a simple incident in which Ela gets lost in the woods. Though she was only a foot in, she was invisible to her frantic parents. After being chalked up as a one-time incident, life is relatively normal until her sixteenth birthday....