The year is 1989 and the first Tuesday after Labor Day may seem like any other day but for the pupils at Forestville Elementary School, life is about to get a lot more interesting. Josh Brady looks like any other 12-year-old kid, but he soon...

As Adam balances himself on the icy iron rails of the Golden Gate Bridge, he contemplates the forces that brought him to this point. It isn’t as if he hasn’t thought about suicide before. This day just seems to be a good end to a...

It’s weird being in love with your best friend. Mel doesn’t want to be, but she is and always has been in love with Sam. Best friends since childhood and all through high school, Mel and Sam share dreams and often finish one another’s thoughts....

With Shadow of the Darkwood by Andrew Alexander Miller, the Trials of Arden begin. Arden, who had to choose his own name, is the heir to the throne. One day, he makes a new friend, Taril, who is the youngest of three brothers, and usually...

Teenage angst, unreasonable parents, family secrets and ghosts – Lost on the Water by D.G. Driver has it all, and more. Fourteen-year-old Dannie is uprooted from her home in California and sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in rural Tennessee. Almost immediately she...

In M. Ainihi’s second book, Lost, from her Blood Inheritance series, Amanda is plagued by visions and a monster that invades her sleep and wakes her with bruises. She doesn’t know what the visions are trying to tell her, so she tries to find the...

The Silver Six is the second novel in the Uncanny Valley series by C.A. Gray. Readers are once again taken on an exciting adventure. Rebecca Cordeaux has learned that her mother is the mysterious leader M of the renegades. Considering that her mother had...

Where You Lead is an adventure mystery novel for young adults written by Leslea Wahl. Eve was a somewhat typical high school sophomore who suddenly found herself confronted by something so strange that it made her wonder if she had something physically wrong with her...

Cradle Gift is the second book in the Faerie Legacy Series by Patricia Bossano, a fantasy with a strong appeal for young adult readers. When Maité is born, Nahia bestows on her a precious gift, an event she would not remember until fifteen years...

Kameron Williams has written a novel about the world before the moon shone in the night sky. The Time Before The Moon is the story of Omi, who, at first, seems like any of a dozen other boys. He seeks the best flint for his...