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...

Sincerely Yours... by Sonia D. Hebdon is set in 1989 in Haven Cove. Seventeen-year-old Josie Worthington is an intelligent senior high school student who begins writing the anonymous advice column “Soul Searcher” for the Haven Cove Gazette. Her carefully constructed world tilts when Blaine Cordwell,...

On Blaine Broussard’s fourteenth birthday, while riding in a car with his father to pick up his best friend, Blaine’s father is shot dead at a Quick Stop. The incident leaves Blaine with severe PTSD, anxiety-induced amnesia, and guilt. Despite moving with his mother from...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

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 Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

In Retrouver: The Rotters Book Two, Jordan Elizabeth returns to the captivating world established in the first book of the series, delivering a narrative that immediately drew me into the chaos and intense world that Felicity and Jack must learn to navigate. I found the...

The Girl Who Was by Myunique C. Green is a YA thriller that focuses on the disappearance of Simone Brooks. She is a high-achieving student whose absence has her school and community talking. Everyone, from teachers to social media, seems to be making Simone into...

In Eric Brown’s The Secrets of Seabrook, as winter closes in on Seabrook Harbor, teenager Jonah Harris notices that a missing dockworker’s case is being dismissed far too quickly. When Josh Hoggins vanishes after a public confrontation at the marina, the town accepts an easy...

In A Madness Unmade by E. K. Larson-Burnett, ever since her father's untimely demise, Laurel Rumbroom has been the sole living resident of Underhallow Sanctum. And that's quite a tall order for any teenager. Her home is a dilapidated mansion that offers sanctuary to an...