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...

Set in 1975 Michigan, Julie A. Swanson’s South of Superstar is the second book in the North of Tomboy series, and it follows Jessica “Jess” Jezowski, who asks her small school to allow her to play on the boys’ seventh-grade junior high basketball team after...

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...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

Beach Camper Caper by Katlee Davis starts with 14-year-old Mandy Mardell trying to survive a bummer of a summer at a California campground. She is already brooding over failing cheerleader tryouts when things get worse. Someone sneaks into her tent, steals her grandmother’s precious childhood...

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...