Persevere by Greg Ramsay is a superhero story with a strong message about turning weaknesses into strengths. The story follows different protagonists, but mainly Dave, a boy who acquires superpowers when his dad gives him and other family members disks that mysterious aliens drop around...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

Extropia by Jae Darcy is set in a future where the wealthy live wired into a virtual world called the Inside while everyone else survives in the ruins left behind. Bache Parker lost his own connection to that world years ago after a hack went...

Liam Kincaid’s Operation Lockdown follows Birn “Books” Tylandine and the young agents of the Bayside Insurgents after Fellstone City is sealed under an Imperial lockdown. Books lives inside the Labor Compound with his friends Cheff, Mid, Sable, Lery, and Buttons, a group recently recruited into...

Time Travel Academy: Kurt Rogers and the Four Crystals of Time by Reginald Williams follows Kurt Rogers, a twelve‑year‑old boy who has spent a year trying to hide an ability that shattered his classroom windows. When an invitation to the Time Travel Academy arrives, he...

Brent Golembiewski’s Flick of the Switch follows fourteen-year-old Sydney “Syd” Yazzie, a Michigan gamer whose mother accepts five million dollars from a government recruiter to send her to an exclusive academy. Syd expects a school built around video games, but the students are called cadets...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

In R. A. Dines’s How I Hacked the Moon, thirteen-year-old Moon Girl has spent half her life at the Lunar Coding Complex, a corporate school where children maintain the artificial intelligence systems housed in server farms. She is the only fifth-standard Lunie admitted to an...

The Everling and the Balefire Monster by J. Christie follows Chezzy Nithercot as he attempts to solve a terrifying kidnapping inside his school. Already isolated by his unique genetic status as the last living everling, Chezzy’s thrown into total turmoil when a classmate is snatched...

In Brendan O’Meara’s Sculpted With Steel, book four of the Crafting Humanity series, Federation commander James crosses an engineered ocean into the BlankZone, an isolated territory ruled by the Order. His assignment is to destroy the Odyssey, a military mothership preparing to carry the Order’s...