The Yellow Dinghy Café by Sophie Chenoweth is a touching, gentle, coming-of-age novel set in Australia. Three young women, Jasmine, Michaela, and Cybelle, were high school friends who had just completed their studies at an exclusive Sydney girls’ school and were setting out on the...

Broken Dreams is the second installment in the Spiraling series by H.L. Karhoff. Here you follow a deceptively simple young adult drama about the coming of age of Tori Douglas. If you put yourself in Tori’s shoes, you won’t have a second thought about punching...

Rock and Roll Children: An 80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story by Sean Frazier is a rollicking ride filled with nostalgia that will have an irresistible appeal to fans of Rock 'n’ Roll and the culture in which it burgeoned and blossomed. The story follows...

On the Way to Birdland by Frank Morelli is an enjoyable coming-of-age story that is deftly written. Cordell Wheaton feels like living in a shell after his brother Travis goes off without warning. He has had one of his habitual quarrels with his father. Now,...

Nate and Gabrielle are two teenagers in love, eager to start their junior year of high school. However, their lives turn upside down when Gabrielle discloses that she is pregnant with Nate's child. Struggling to process the momentous news, Nate and Gabrielle slowly try to...

That's How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers is an incredible tale of past meets present. Written by Hazel Pacheco and illustrated by Katie Risor, it takes the reader on a journey of a family who visits with the family matriarch, only for one curious child...

A License To Practice by Valerie Allen is a gripping short story about parenting, and how they can misjudge certain situations in their teenager's life. It shows how they can go off the handle at the slightest point of misinterpretation through snooping. A License To...

Elizabeth Stevens’ Lady in Training, the second book in the I’m No Princess series, continues with Anya adjusting to royal life. No longer in the king’s palace, Anya is now at her family’s estate. With the media constantly talking about her rumored romance to either...

Avery never thought the chance meeting with a young street musician while in New York City with her parents would ever resurface. Who would have thought that the brilliant young violinist who captured her heart on a cold blustery day would appear years later? That...

The story K. L. Frase tells in her novel UnKnown Lands is special, which means it requires a special protagonist, too - a book. His name is ESARF (or better, the Great Magnificent ESARF) and, as a book, he is very unusual. He has developed...