Silencing Sharks by John Hope is a book about Peter, an awkward, gangling 13-year-old, who also happens to be deaf. Isolated from the world due to his hearing impairment, his only source of comfort, aside from his eccentric Uncle Sverrir, is the ocean. He feels...

Stress, sexual and mental abuse, depression, and mental illness are all factors that can lead to not only suicidal thoughts but suicidal actions. Suicide rates are high amongst young adults primarily within the gay, military, and college communities. Suicides are close to author Mark Waters's...

Saladin, or Chalky as Mal March has always called him, may not be family by blood, but he is the closest thing to a brother Mal has, and Mal has always been there for him. It stands to reason that when things get difficult for...

Six teenagers have been preparing their entire lives to combat the forces of evil that are determined to take over the world – except they knew nothing about it. Brought together as the Northern and Southern Alliances through amazing guidance from a higher power, Shanti,...

Sunflowers in a Hurricane by Anne M Faye is a tender and sensitive story that is also heart wrenching and emotional. George and Dottie share a powerful love that is cut short when Dottie dies in childbirth. George is left alone to raise his daughter,...

Surf Shop Sisters is a novella written by Laura Kennedy. Sixteen-year-old Brooke Bentley and her best friends, Sudsy and Tamara, are looking forward to Coral Cove High School’s homecoming dance. Their friend, Maria, however, is devastated when her parents forbid her to attend with her...

Sophie's Different (James Madison Series Book 3) by Patrick Hodges is a children’s story for middle school students about the negative aspects of bullying. This book is the third in a series. In this story, a few years have passed since the end of Hodges’...

Saving Honor is a novel by Melissa C. Water, presented in an extraordinary first-person narrative. Honor O’Neill is plagued by strange visions on a daily basis. A seventeen-year-old victim of high school bullies, she sometimes pictures herself getting revenge. When one of those revenge scenarios...

Scarred is an incredible story by Elizabeth Montgomery, which literally took my breath away. Avery is a school student who has lived most of her life with being bullied due to the scar on her face left by many surgeries to correct a cleft palate....

Sade on the Wall by Kaylene Campbell is a young adult novel that follows Sade saving Jackie, her best friend, from a secret she thought wasn't a big deal. That's until Jackie had gone destructive. Sade depended on their code of secrecy until she realized...