Angered by the oil spill in her hometown on Santa Barbara's coast in 1969 and being sent to Catholic school, fifteen-year-old Jolie absconds from her family with her twenty-four-year-old activist boyfriend, Will. Hoping she would now be free from her parents' control, she is instead...

Facing Up is a young adult coming of age story written by Carolyn Gilpin. Carly is one of thousands of young adults attending university, but she feels isolated and oh, so different from everyone else. One side of her face is scarred from a disastrous...

Luz, Rebound is a young adult romance written by Jeania Kimbrough. Kara Jagger's back from her exchange year in Tasmania and Australia. Trinity, the small preparatory school she boards at, feels strange and different now. Ryan, her best friend and ex-boyfriend, won't even look at...

Imagine growing up in a world that has always been at war. In fact, at war so long that no one actually remembers why they are at war in the first place. This is the world that Ann Denton has created in Kiah's Soul-Shifting Journey:...

Joshua's Island by Patrick Hodges is the story of Joshua and Eve, two 13-year-old kids who face something many kids have to deal with in real life, too: bullying. And not just verbal bullying, but bullying that includes physical violence. Joshua is a small boy,...

Tommy Ellis Goes to Sea is a coming of age story written by Jes Parkin. It's set in 1959 in Hull, a fishing community in Northeastern England. Tommy has just completed his first year of high school and is anticipating the six-week summer vacation, but...

Wind Catcher: A Chosen Novel is a young adult fantasy novel written by Jeff Altabef and Erynn Altabef. Juliet Stone feels like she's being torn in two different directions. Her mother, a successful Native American lawyer, has enrolled her in an exclusive preparatory academy, Bartens....

Gunther's Cavern is a young adult fantasy/science fiction novel written by Edward Etzkorn. Eleven of New Calar's kids went missing one day in July, and no one's seen them since. The authorities figure they've run away, but their parents fear kidnapping or worse. It's been...

When you are young, musically talented, and full of ambition, starting a band sounds like the best career out there. Oh sure, the fame, the fun, the money, all the attention, and of course the perks seem like a dream come true until one day...

The Crystal Navigator: A Perilous Journey Through Time by Nancy Kunhardt Lodge is a children's fantasy book in the same tradition as The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Within the pages we find young Lucy Nightingale, a girl who can make things happen...