Firecracker: A Young Adult Fantasy by A.L. Knorr is the first book in the Arcturus Academy series. Saxony is one of the few who have survived a forbidden ritual that can take a fire magi from Unburned to Burned. Those that survive obtain power beyond...

Quinn is ready to start her perfect summer. She's secured a spot at Fullerton Castle in the archives department. Fullerton Castle is also a tourist destination, with a gift shop and medieval reenactors. Quinn's best friend Frankie will be working in the gift shop so...

Father's Violin by John Hope is a moving historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of post-World War II Germany, where Soviet and American forces have solidified their stronghold over Berlin. It follows a thirteen-year-old boy named Hertz, who must survive starvation and the hostile...

Floating in the Neversink by Andrea Simon is an extraordinary novel. In the summer of 1955, nine-year-old Amanda Gerber has to say goodbye to her best friend, Francine. She travels from Brooklyn to deep within the Catskill Mountains, where Grandma Sarah lives. Although she is...

Fear of Flying by Kate Allen is an absorbing coming of age drama. It's big on characterization and has enough inner conflict to have you completely involved as the story develops. When the main character, Liz, loses her last surviving relative, it throws her into...

Flashpoint Stentorville 2003 by Helmut and J.E.H. Roth has the makings of a YA icon. It's about two young teens, Bart and Ollie, whose lives intersect later, but whose stories are told separately at first. Bart hops a train out of town and goes east,...

Retta Brooks is a fifteen-year-old starting actual school for the first time in her life. Her mother, being a paranoid worrier, homeschooled her until Retta finally convinced her mother to let her attend high school like a regular kid. The more she tries to fit...

Finding Home is Duaah Hammad's first poetry collection, published when she was 18. The collection focuses on Hammad's experience of growing up in America and visiting her homeland of Pakistan, never feeling truly accepted in both countries. She is seen as an outsider, too liberal...

Finding Fate is the first entry in the Tied by Fate Series by Keelan Storm, a coming-of-age, young adult romance with unforgettable characters. Tucker Patterson has lived all his life in the beachside community where he’s developed a relationship with Isabel “Izzy” Dearly. He’s never...

Fig Newton Summer is a tale for readers of all ages about a tween’s coming of age, written by Lisa Gammon Olson and illustrated by Lauren Rutledge. Lizzie is a 12-year-old girl who travels on vacation with her parents and younger sister, Lori, to the...