If the intended market for To Hide in Holly Springs is young adults ages 14-18, then Sandy Appleyard knows what will interest her readers: stories about love, romance, school, career choices, and friends they can trust. She also knows some of the key social issues...

The Siren is the second book in The Gay Teen's Guide to Defeating a Siren series by Cody F. Wagner. Dealing with the fallout from the Siren's last attack, Blaize Trales has spent his summer at home coping with his parents, who have been awkward...

Whispers is a young adult social issues novel written by Lynn Yvonne Moon. No one expected the twelve-year-old daughter of the deceased to punch her father’s body in the face as he lay in his casket during the funeral service. Listening to Pastor Johnson go...

Heiress to Waitress: The Royal Tea Shop Book 1 by Ginny Clyde is a young adult romance about rising up from where you’ve fallen, and learning how to live by your own strength. Olivia, her younger brother, James, and their mother, Sarah, had recently been...

Freedom for Me: A Chinese Yankee is an historical fiction novel written by Stacie Haas. The character of Thomas Beck, the young Chinese American who joins the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry with his brother, Robert, is based on the true-life story of Joseph Pierce....

The Golden Boy: St. Mary's Academy Shorts, Book 2 is a young adult romance novella written by Seven Steps and Audrey Rich. Clay Roman’s suggestion was impossible to even think about; it went against everything that Meg knew was right, but he had planned his...

We Own the Sky by Sara Crawford is the first book in The Muse Chronicles. Music has always been in Sylvia Baker's blood. Her father is a musician and her strongest supporter. As an outsider, she never felt that she fitted in, but things start...

Beauty by Lori R. Lopez is about a family's ordinary pit stop gone terribly different. The Aches, who are on their way to see the Grand Canyon, had to make an urgent stop after traveling for hours. They had no choice but to go for...

Camilla of Grayville is a wonderful story of social interaction, written by William Baga and illustrated by Donna Secour. Hidden within the gray walls of a town called Grayville, the inhabitants hide behind their phone screens and ignore all that takes place around them. One...

Aging Out is a coming of age novel for young and new adults written by L. Lee Shaw. Soosie, Adam and Myron would be “aging out” of Pitison House within six months, an event that would occur on their eighteenth birthdays. Before that was going...