In the years following the Flare, an electrostatic disaster that literally fried all technology on Earth, people had to relearn the basic art of living. Some did; many didn’t. And the repercussions saw many children abandoned and placed in government-sanctioned homes. Saylor, so named because...

The Battle for Darracia by Michael Phillip Cash combines three books in one and plunges the reader into a world where chaos is about to tear it apart. The setting is on a planet called Darracia, a place where class distinction is rank and rife....

Kade, the protagonist of Golden Dreg Boy by D.K. Dailey, is a Golden, which means that he is part of the rich society. Everyone who isn't a Golden is called a Dreg. Those are the poor, who often do not have a fixed home, and...

Davey and Derek are twins. They do just about everything together, including solving mysteries and learning a little bit of magic from their Great-Aunt Gigi. On a recent visit to their great-aunt, the boys learned a new magic trick and discovered “a large brown scraggly...

The title Known Shippable, Will Not Fix is computer game developer speak - a language with which the author Roy W. Russell seems intimately familiar. A rollercoaster narrative revolves around the central character, Casey, who is employed as a game tester by an unnamed organisation....

The Dark Solstice by N.L. Willcome is the first book in An Empyrian Odyssey series. When a Lord in the city of Empyria dies, Tamsin Urbane is ushered out of the only place she's called home and into the desert. While exploring the city with...

Amy Martin’s In Your Dreams follows teenager Zara “Zip” McKee as she navigates the small-town high school of Titusville, Illinois. Although Zip is the basketball star and top of her class, Zip’s junior year is anything but typical after she meets new kid Kieran Lanier....

Through Dragon Eyes by Catherine Milos is the story of dragons, and the coming war that could destroy them. Zoe's family was killed by the Black Dragon when she was a baby and grew up to be the future Wise One Earthana's scaler. When she's...

The kids at school called Charlie a nerd and a brainy one at that. All because of a presentation she did in Grade 2 that described her family holiday as an archaeological dig in Egypt, while everyone else in the class had a typical beach-like...

In The Patchwork Girl by Sebastian Bendix, 16-year-old Padget Beaumont is trudging through life－her scientist dad has mysteriously disappeared for months, she is shunned at school, and lost her best friend because of a boy. Padget is determined to face these annoying hardships and everything...