Whimsy and Bliss by Angela Grey is a heartfelt exploration of friendship, identity, and the fragile balance between imagination and reality. The story follows Whimsy, a girl who senses the world humming with echoes and finds maps in places others overlook, and Bliss, her steady...

A Summer Lasts Forever by Tamar Anolic is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel told through alternating perspectives that capture the emotions of a teen uprooted from her familiar life into a very different one in a small Vermont town. Readers meet Ginny and Sam as they...

More to Life by Emily Camp is a young adult romance that follows Brynn, a college student, and two brothers, Levi and Noah, each of whom plays a pivotal role in her journey. It goes between the present and the summer she was forced to...

Andrea Beck’s Below the Surface is a young adult novel that examines the challenges of fitting into a new community, the burden of judgment, and the effects of tragedy. Set in the seemingly perfect town of Oak Park, the story follows Emily Libert, a sixteen-year-old...

The Cartography of First Love by Angela Grey is an unusual, but completely compelling story of first love encountered in a most unusual location – a psychiatric institution. Fifteen-year-old Zibby is confined because of her eating disorder, and sixteen-year-old Nico suffers from depression and anxiety....

Diaries of a Borderline by Blue Evergarden is a collection of original poetry, ranging in length, tone, and tenor, each connecting a facet of Evergarden's voice. In Diaries of a Borderline XXIII, she drifts through darkness as monsters steal her joy, but she still glimpses...

Trust and Treason: The Rise by Keir O'Neill follows the lives of Jack Walsh and Tommy O'Connor. It starts with the early lives of Jack and Tommy. When Jack’s mother takes Tommy in to protect him from his abusive father, an unbreakable bond of brotherhood...

Craig Staufenberg's The Girl Who Came Back To Life is the story of a young girl who recently lost her parents. Twelve-year-old Sophie struggles to deal with the loss of her parents, who unexpectedly passed away, sending her to live with her distant grandmother, who...

Harry by Jack Heape follows Sophie Martin, who attends Pine Lake Writers’ Camp where she meets Lucas Walker, who is deaf. Initially communicating through written notes, Sophie begins learning American Sign Language (ASL) from Lucas. After camp, she proposes to her parents that she train...

Summer at Cedar Point by Russell W. Ramsey and Angel Giacomo is a nostalgic coming-of-age story set in the 1930s along the shores of Lake Erie, in the now-iconic region of Cedar Point. At the heart of the story are three brothers—Roy, Bill, and Bob...