Two kids have to move to a small town in the YA novel Wizrd by Steve Zell. Bryce Willems is 14 years old and his sister Megan is 10. Pinon Rim, their new home, was once a booming Arizona mining town, especially after gold had...

Whispers is a young adult social issues novel written by Lynn Yvonne Moon. No one expected the twelve-year-old daughter of the deceased to punch her father’s body in the face as he lay in his casket during the funeral service. Listening to Pastor Johnson go...

After a traumatic car accident, a high school student suffers from amnesia that conceals more than teenage angst in the dramatic Young Adult fiction novel What The Valley Knows by Heather Christie. Molly Hanover and her mother Ann have just relocated to Millington Valley. Ann's...

Every once in a while, I enjoy a good mystery. It is not my favorite genre, but I appreciate a good one. Why Blame the Stars? by Michael Segedy is a good one. I like the way he intertwines mystery and romance. I like that...

Wear White to Your Funeral by Lisa Acerbo is a book with an intriguing title. Yes, the title caught my attention, but when I opened the first page I knew there would be no turning back. This is a paranormal story with great elements of...

Brittany Wright's life isn't going as she hoped. She can't afford to go to college, despite graduating as valedictorian of her class, and is stuck in a small town, working as a cleaner at Happy Hearts Nursing Home. The job goes wrong from day one...

Without You by author Saskia Sarginson is a haunting tale that will stay with you long after you hear the last word. Eva and her father, Max, loved to sail, but one fitful day in the midst of a storm Eva was flung overboard. Despite...

Lemony Snicket is back with part two of his latest series. This time Snicket asks the wrong question: When Did You See Her Last? Lemony Snicket, almost thirteen and “wrong,” apprentice to S. Theodora Markson, seeks to find missing person, Cleo Knight. Still in the...

On one hot summer night in August 2009, teenage couple Simon Brown and Asha Bailey enter Witches Wood, trying to have their time alone away from Asha’s parents. Their romantic evening, however, is disturbed by a ghost of a girl - 16-year-old Katie Blake, who...

During a scholarship funded trip to Washington D.C., fifteen year old Christy encounters dangers of conspiracy proportions. What should have been an educational experience turns out to be a dangerous plot against the US government when Christy and her travelling companions witness the execution-style murder...