Shelly Reuben’s My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree is the work of great imagination, as inspiring as it is engaging. It’s a story about the life of a community, centered on a park and told by a climbing tree. Sam Swerling is...

Two young women, from opposite ends of the spectrum, are set to collide in L.C. Perry's dystopian fiction Gold Shadow (Bronze Rebellion Book 1). Eighteen-year-old Ebony, born a slave, has only ever known the horrors and struggle for survival underground as a slave in the...

A coming of age story about a tenth grader named Tommy Baher, aka Johnathan’s younger brother, aka Johnathan’s less intelligent and less impressive brother. Tommy has made it his ultimate goal to get out from under his brother’s shadow by any means necessary. And then...

Mirror Me is a coming-of-age psychological thriller written by Tara St. Pierre. Hannah doesn’t like to look in mirrors, and she especially avoids looking into the judgmental gaze of her reflection’s eyes. Her life has been closely monitored and scrutinized by her all-too-perfectly coiffed and...

Summer Seventeen and You by Sara Daniell is a tender young adult novel about growing up, and learning who your true family is. Samantha “Sam” Scott is a young, wealthy teenager whose boyfriend, Logan Hart, is the star baseball player. But when a newcomer, Elliot...

The Stronghold by Sebastian Bendix is a futuristic, post-apocalyptic young adult novel. Bowie Neville grew up in a secluded island stronghold. His parents and others like them escaped the world when the system collapsed, spiraling humanity into a death spin. Raised on stories of man-eating...

Life for the early settlers in Nova Scotia wasn’t easy. But neither had it been easy in the homeland, in Ireland. Ira Stewart, a blacksmith by trade, brought his wife, Merry, and family to the New World in the hopes of a better life. When...

The Still Sad Music by Shawn Merritt is a sometimes melancholic, but always interesting journey through the coming of age of a troubled young man. Jeffrey is an awkward adolescent, just coming to terms with his feelings and emotions, when both his parents are killed...

Lord Banjo is a dog. He’s actually a royal dog. At least, that’s what he claims based on his lineage to the Great Pyrenees, the breed declared by King Louis XIV to be the Royal Dogs of France. It doesn’t matter that Lord Banjo is...

In a brilliant start to this new science fiction series, Mary Fan’s writing is fluid and poetic. Starswept centres on the fate of fifteen-year-old Iris Lei, a talented violist who has lived under the protection of the Papilio performing arts school since birth. Earth, 2157,...