Isabel Scheck’s Shades of Blue is a heartbreakingly beautiful story about young love. Skylar and Ciel take the same school bus and share a science class. They have hardly spoken to each other, aside from the one occasion when Skylar asked him about their science...

Summer of '82 is a coming-of-age young adult novel written by T. Allen Madding. Set in the early 80s, the book follows the lives of three young friends growing up in the small rural town of Haggard in Whitaker County, South Georgia. Ricky Mann, Jimmy...

Saving Lonesome Carsten is a slice-of-life drama novel by Emily Stalder Johnson. After recently moving with her family to her new home, junior high schooler Kacey Harlow finds a kindred spirit when she meets Carsten Hayes, a shy kid who instantly opens up to Kacey....

Spirit Talker, a novel by Rebecca Laffar-Smith, relates the story of Sara Brooks, a young Australian girl who for some reason is followed by ghosts. Since her mother’s death, six months earlier, Sara and her dad move across the country for a fresh start. ...

Sugar Birds, a novel by Cheryl Grey Bostrom, accomplishes so much that you can’t help but fall in love with it. Aggie Hayes enjoys the outdoors and loves climbing trees and sketching the bird nests that she finds. Her father introduced her to sketching and...

In June of 1879, Brett Tompkins traveled by train from Baltimore to Snow Shoe via Arlee to visit his father, who worked for Stewart Creek Logging Company. Brett stops in Arlee overnight and stays at a hotel owned by Hank Johnson and his wife, Nancy....

Space Jelly by author and illustrator Reginald P. Howard is a humorous graphic novel suitable for adult and young adult readers. Sports fans everywhere are so turned off by the amount of time devoted to political and social issues during coverage of televised events that...

Sins of the Parents: A Shady Corners Tale by K.C. Sprayberry is an absolutely delightful coming-of-age novel set in the small Georgian town of Shady Corners. Luci and Skye are cousins, who remarkably look like twins and were born on the same day. They have...

Salmon Croquettes by Glodean Champion is the coming-of-age story of a young girl called Zayla who feels like she doesn’t belong anywhere. Zayla is confused and believes she is not normal. While her father loves her just as she is, her mother is borderline obsessed...

If coming-of-age romantic comedies are your forte, grab yourself a copy of Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land by Nicole Schubert. The only single teenager amongst her group of friends, eighteen-year-old BookTuber and blogger Saoirse Berger has romantic fantasies of being swept off...