Tested by Connie Cockrell is a sci-fi story with strong hints of a dystopian element. Readers are introduced to two young characters, Alyssa and Kyra, navigating a desolate landscape and abandoned neighborhoods. After experiencing the cold of winter and relying on campfires for a long...

The Field by Ian Dawson is a fairly straightforward YA novel about two friends, Daniel and Kyle, and what happens when one of them is kidnapped. The book starts with an introduction to both boys and their friendship, and all of the normal adolescent...

When Kevin first starts receiving the visions, he’s not sure what they mean and neither is anyone else, but what he’s certain about is that he’s not crazy. It’s those visions that lead him to SETI and even further to NASA, but visions aren’t...

The Scouts of St. Michael: Operation Archangel by Dan Morales is set in the summer of 1940. Six orphaned boys who live at St. Michael’s Home for Boys are banned from the local BBS or British Boy Scouts. Wanting desperately to be Boy Scouts, they...

Technology Can Kill You: Attack on Valques by James William Peercy is the first volume in the author's new science fiction series, Ivan, Universal Space Tech. The protagonist, Ivan, is an Earth-born human technical specialist, plucking at wires and fixing the unfixable among the cosmos...

The Resilient: Resisting Urban Dystopia is a young adult war novel by author Braedan Lalor and the second book of its series. The novels are set in a world where teenagers survive purely by being the fittest, the most ruthless, and the luckiest amid a...

The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue: Touring Califaztlan by Ananda Esteva is the first book in the author's new young adult adventure series. It follows Chela Coatlicue and her band as they hit the road and cross the Mexican-American border to reclaim a bass guitar that...

The Chronicles of Arcanilius: The Origin Stories by Antonia Rapheal finds Naherna on a journey as the new Representative to the scribes. As the wizard Wadzviler rises in power, Naherna embarks on her first mission, which sends her traveling to the Ziggurat of Kir. She...

Braedan Lalor’s The Fatherless: Alastar’s Urban War is about three young children learning to survive in a kill-or-be-killed society. Separated from their parents since birth, children are labeled either psychopaths or oracles. Psychopaths are emotionless deadened souls who are perfect for survival, and oracles are...

The Line of His People by C.J. Adrien is set between 799 A.D. and 816 A.D. It begins with Abriel’s town and the nearby monastery being ransacked by northmen, a common occurrence at the time. Abriel is rescued by an order of monks who take...