Who wants to live forever? This is the question that the husband and wife team of Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl explore in their YA novel, Merged. An elite group of scientists called the Darwinians wants to shatter the belief that we only live once, so...

Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey is an edgy YA novel that you'll long remember. The main character is a young teenage girl named Iphigenia out to find a missing mother and escape things going on at home. But things go from bad to worse as...

One Golden Day by Charles D'Amico is the story of a man who reminisces about his past as he waits for his bride to walk down the aisle to marry him. Travis Golden was a 27-year-old man about to get married to the woman of...

Signs in the Dark is a YA novel written by Susan Miura. Haylie is a 17-year-old Deaf girl who attends Beethoven High School. After Haylie goes missing, Nathan - a fellow student who had been looking forward to their first date - becomes number one...

Scotty's Junction by Andrew Arthur is an impressive YA coming-of-age novel. Centering on an artistic genius named Scotty Madaki, we are introduced to this teenager and his father in a New York park. Scotty's father, who he calls Pops, places a high value on education,...

In The Elementals by Michelle Knohl, Mia had never been a normal girl. From the time she was little her mother feared her ability to tell a person's future, keeping her away from peers her own age. At her wit's end, Mia’s mother takes her...

Hannah is the Vice President of her school's Students Against Destructive Decisions club. She gets good grades and is called Mouse by her close friends because she often doesn’t make decisions for herself and lets others make them for her. She gives in to her...

Rocket Queen by Julianna Morgan is a mesmerizing coming-of-age YA novel that follows sixteen-year-old Wren Evans as she deals with depression and seeks deeper levels of connection with herself. She forgets dates, often feeling moody and lonely. But her depression becomes stronger when she is...

Club Fed by Stephen Arrington is the story of finding a purpose. Jake, Raoul, Walt, Clayton, and Jessie are an unusual bunch. They meet at a minimum-security prison camp. They are randomly chosen and put together as the inmate fire crew for the town of...

Time's Up is book three in the Time Zero Trilogy by Carolyn J. Cohagan and a terrific conclusion to an intriguing dystopian story. Mina and Juda are forced to return back home to Manhattan and they don’t want to. They spend days trying to find...