Nebraska Avenue by Vincent Rubino is a coming-of-age novel set during the summer of 1976 in North Bay Shore on Long Island. The story centers on Artie Mooney, Wally Tazowski, and Vinny Perino, three boys navigating adolescence in a neighborhood called “The States,” where streets...

Youth of Planet Earth Are Rising is the sequel to Ben Storm's Youth of Planet Earth: Arise. It's been a year since Sean Dempsey and his family moved to the village of Eastport, Pennsylvania. Sean is a senior at Eastport High and has taken an...

After meeting for the first time in months, Taylor and his youngest brother, Marc Dunkin, have reconciled, and Taylor has even agreed to go home to Montgomery, Massachusetts, for Easter. And because Jordan Dunkin was also flying in from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana,...

Versology is an enthralling collection of poems written without using colons or semicolons. Taking inspiration from the nature of life, Avalok has crafted this collection seeking answers to some profound questions. Pursuing meaning and purpose, the author chooses to rely on question marks and exclamation...

Surfing on Dry Land by Sheryl Recinos is a searing story that documents the struggles of a mother and daughter in two timelines. Ixchel is just fifteen and with a baby when she escapes from her home village in Guatemala because of gang violence, traveling...

Mayhem in the Mountains by Jane Loeb Rubin opens with eighteen-year-old Ella deciding to leave Brooklyn behind and head to the Catskills with her younger brother, Robbie, in search of relatives. It is set in the 1920s, a time that shapes so much of what...

In The Junkyard by Bryan Reilly, after escaping a dog-fighting ring run by a violent junkyard owner named Mr. Fergusen, a battered pit bull called Ninja is taken into a hidden settlement beneath piles of wrecked cars where abandoned dogs survive under the leadership of...

Misty isn’t too pleased when her family moves to Palmdale, California, far from the big city. Good news: she quickly grows to love the desert’s natural beauty and wildlife. Bad news: her home life is nowhere near as beautiful, despite the facade of a happy...

In Gripped (Part 6: The Dunkin Legacy) by Stacy A. Padula, Taylor Dunkin’s life is in turmoil, and it’s hard to see a clear way out. He used to be a college football star with everything going for him, but a knee injury ended it...

In Dear Dairy by Steve Goldsmith, the story follows Justin Case, a twelve-year-old boy who writes about his life in a diary while dealing with school, family struggles, and the challenges of being dyslexic and mildly autistic. His entries, full of misspellings and made-up words,...