In The Old Person Curse: Between Dark and Light by Chris Von Halle, Azie is 12 years old and has just moved into a new house with her parents. The house has a secret of its own. On her first day at school, Azie made...

Raju is home alone when a girl on the television directly addresses him and calls him by name. He decides to play along and asks for her name. She says her name is Mangalika, and she helps him with his homework. Raju tells his...

The Black Fog: A Cosmic Horror Short Story is a work of fiction in the short story subcategory, and forms part of Newton's Macabre Tales. It is best suited to the adult reading audience for its horror theme and descriptions of graphic violence. Penned by...

The Key House: The Noland Kids Adventure Series Book 1 by Mike Curtis introduces readers to brothers Caleb and David Noland. They are twelve and ten years old, respectively. The brothers move into an inherited home with their parents and younger sister, where they settle...

The Beast in the Shadows is a thrilling second book in Douglas L. Hoover’s Dirt Bike Detective series. Oliver and his friends have succeeded in saving the world from mayhem and are happy to pick up another mystery to solve: what happened to the pizza...

Eleven-year-old Vivien and her parents moved to Camp Breckinridge on the orders of the United States Army. Her father served in the military, and they met other families at the camp. Although her parents warned them not to visit an old abandoned hospital building, curiosity...

The Fox’s Tale by Samuel Woodly is a charming and enigmatic fantasy that puts a bright twist on the themes of love, dreams, and sacrifice. At the core of this tale are two protagonists whose lives are destined to intertwine. Allen Clarke is a young...

The Liminal: Book 1 by Michael Padjen is a young adult urban fantasy set primarily in modern-day Holly Springs, North Carolina. Callie, a fourteen-year-old girl, can travel into The Liminal, a space between worlds where all manner of creatures and realms exist. She can find...

The Black Queen by Jumata Emil commences with a confrontation between Nova Albright and Tinsley McArthur over the homecoming queen campaign. Tinsley feels it is unfair because the school has introduced “quotas” and attempts to perpetuate white privilege by bribing Nova to withdraw. Ironically, it...

Sally Royer-Derr presents The Tracks, a young adult mystery about a young woman who spends her free time down on the train tracks in the woods behind her house. Emily uses her time on the tracks to enjoy the momentary escape from the reality of...