Of Life, Love, and Other Noble Pursuits: The Extraordinarily Ordinary Life of Cassandra Jones by Tamara Hart Heiner captures the transformative experience of early adulthood with remarkable authenticity and sensitivity. The novel follows Cassandra Jones through her first year of college, exploring the complex landscape...

Our Bodies Electric by Zackary Vernon is a coming-of-age story that follows a young teenager's journey of self-discovery during his adolescent years. Josh is a sixth-grader raised in a very conservative household with his two sisters on Pawley's Island, South Carolina, in the mid-1990s. Whether...

Princess Harriet grew up in Wonderland. It is all she has ever known, and she loves everything about it. From the poker-themed castle to the magical gardens and friendly creatures, Wonderland is her perfect home, but all this changes when she loses her parents, the...

Debbie Schrack brings us an amazing story of hope and courage in Over the Fence. At the age of six, Eve was abducted from in front of her house by a man known as "Papa." That was eleven years ago. She is now seventeen and...

Our Own Little Underworld is a young adult romance drama by Paige Lavoie. All Percy Bloom wants is to live the normal life of a teenager and do the things she loves. But her ultra-conservative mother has other ideas, as she wants to control every...

Of the Noble and Great Ones by H.D. Logic explores the profound importance in this world and beyond of young men like Juke, a non-verbal autistic teenager who serves as the exclusive narrator. Through Juke's sparse yet evocative single-word phrases and gestures, we gain intimate...

Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life...and a Man by Reenita Malhotra Hora is a perfectly accomplished coming-of-age story with a nerve-jangling twist. Ila is a teenager who grows up in Mumbai and her overprotective, almost domineering single mother doesn't allow her...

On the Waterfront by Mike McCoy is the coming-of-age story of thirteen-year-old Danny Novak, a child of divorced parents in the early 70s who was eager to get away from his unhappy family by getting a job as a summer camp staffer. He first saw...

After so much practice, Sloane finds herself at the Olympic games in Beijing representing her country, the USA. She meets Jae Sung, a male swimmer from North Korea. Before they knew it, they had fallen head over heels for each other. However, the future of...

On Being Jen: A Short, What If Story by S. R. Mallery is a quick read aimed at the young adult market. Jen Mitchell appears to have it all. Looks, popularity, the perfect nuclear family, and the sports captain for her boyfriend. Susan, on the...