Have you ever felt you were different from everyone else? That there was something very strange about you and you must keep it a secret? That’s how Ana feels in S.A. Larsen’s Marked Beauty. She senses other people’s emotions through their life energy auras. Imagine...

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...

Pride Be Damned: The Toby Garrison Chronicles, Book One is a young adult mystery novel written by Ellen Boyd. Toby was not going to allow his father to dictate the terms of his life and existence, and he was determined to do something about it...

A young man must accept his painful past and face an uncertain future in the young adult novel, The Staircase of Fire by Ben Woodard. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is no stranger to heartbreak and grief. After an unfortunate accident leaves him an orphan and the...

Riley McCullough's summer in The Summer the World Ended by Matthew S. Cox does not start out very promisingly. She and her best friend had planned to spend the summer together, but then her friend's parents take her on a two-week holiday in Puerto Vallarta....

The Wonderful Whippet of Winifred Weatherwax is a mystery novel for young adults written by Philippa Stasiuk. Eleanor Weatherwax was beside herself in blissful anticipation that she’d finally be getting a Lucky Dog Whippet. She had been waiting so long for that phone call from...

Codex: Codex Special Edition by World Codex Staff is a short book that brings to the modern day a fragment of history that many have heard of, but not many know of: the first and last publication that was dubbed Planet Poetry. A poetry contest...

Life for seventeen-year-old Abby Renshaw has not been easy. Her father died when she was young, her mom moved her from Florida to New Jersey away from her Granma, and she started having vivid dreams and visions. Of course she was treated by a psychiatrist...

In Lost and Found (Mysterious Tales from Fairy Falls, #1) by Sharon Ledwith, Fairy Falls Animal Shelter no longer has the financial resources to take in and provide for its animals. A fifteen-year-old calico cat named Whiskey overhears the news and decides that the animals...

It's Not Always Rainbows by Joey Paul is one of the very few books I have had to read twice before posting a review; yes, because the writing is gorgeous and the thematic development exceptional; a book that will appeal to readers interested in LGBTQ...