"Silent Fortune" by Janet Carafa captures your attention from the very first illustration and the introduction to the silent land in the sky. In nonsense rhyme and colorful prosaic imagery we meet Fortune, the mime who secretly wants more than this magical rainbow cloud life,...

Chicago teen Kasey Simon returns in this sequel to "How to Rock Braces and Glasses". Now that she is complete with braces and contact lenses, Kasey is ready to return to teenage music group Gravity and her heart-throb Zander who is a Gravity member. Then...

Young Danny Firoth was just an average middle school kid, just like everyone else, or so he thought. Then, one innocent school day turned out to be like no other day. Danny’s day started out like any other. But, one fateful event would change the...

"Thrall" by Jennifer Quintenz is a zesty and very enjoyable YA paranormal novel. The opening seems a little conventional. We meet teenager Braedyn, bright and gutsy but a bit of a social misfit, against the usual background of American high school with the moody beauties...

"A Part to Play" by Jennifer L Fry is a punchy YA novel. The author doesn’t shy away from dealing head on with difficult issues including bereavement, mental breakdown, uncontrolled anger, emotional insecurity and pressure to conform. Heroine Lucy has recently lost her sister Kate,...

A Horse Named Viking is the tale of the life of one horse, whose future seemed doomed from the beginning. His mother was an intractable mare whose temperament was vicious and unmanageable. It was so vile that she was put down after she killed a...

"The Xavier Mosaic" by Emma Austen is a beautifully crafted fantasy novel. The author has meticulously constructed a complex, menacing yet intriguing world in Larasca for her rich variety of characters to inhabit. The unpleasant Queen is slowly dragging the realm into crisis with persecution...

Poppy Johnson, an exemplary, exceptional and a super-focused high school junior, is given the prestigious Denton Award. The full paid scholarship to Columbia University has been Poppy’s and her family’s dream ever since Poppy could remember. It is awarded only to one outstanding student. In...

Nathaniel, Orah, and Thomas, best friends since childhood, live a peaceful, bucolic existence in Little Pond, a place as small as its name suggests. Their lives are simple, governed by the teachings from the Temple, and the ministrations of the Vicars and their squadron of...

Five talented young basketball players from Rockwood, Georgia's high school, were all killed at different times and in different ways, but they were all much too young to die. Now they have been given a chance to come back to earth for six months to...