Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Missing Heiress is a sleuthing adventure novel for preteens and young adults written by Carrie Cross. The first day of a new school semester always made Skylar a bit nervous, but this one, the spring semester of her seventh...

Compulsively readable, The Key is the opening entry in the Secret Defenders series by Felicia Rogers, deftly written and well balanced. It’s a beautiful story for fans of paranormal romance and those who enjoyed I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. Maddie Clevenger is in...

Time Next by Carolyn Cohagan is the second installment in The Time Zero Trilogy, preceded by book one, Time Zero. Manhattan has been taken over and is being ruled by hard-core fundamentalists. The main character, Mina, and her friends – known as the Manhattan Five...

Touching All Bases: Going Home is an interrelated collection of baseball stories written by George Ruszat. Augie Rausch fell in love with baseball from the moment when his dad first started having catch sessions with him when he was a little kid. Augie was a...

My Monster is a paranormal coming of age novel for young adults written by Einat Segal. Sophie Green was most likely the only senior in her high school who was still a virgin. She hated that, yet she really hadn’t found anyone worth doing the...

Lost Boy by Chanda Hahn is the second book in the Neverwood Chronicles. Wendy has returned to her family, but she has no memory of anything before. She was found years prior by her adoptive parents who pulled her out of the water. She struggles...

Secrets & Lies in El Salvador: Shelly's Journey by Sherrie Miranda is a personal journey in war-torn El Salvador in the early 1980s when the country is ravaged by a fully-fledged civil war that lasted for more than 12 years. Extremely violent, the war resulted...

Set against the backdrop of the summer of 1956 on a farm in Michigan, with reminiscences of WWII and the threat of nuclear war, The Cherry Pickers by Gregory C. Randall is a coming of age story that follows the life of Howie, a teenage...

Nila: Water by Daniel G Linsteadt is a spellbinding opening into a fantasy series, a tale with great originality and that features themes with strong appeal to environmentalists and advocates against climate change. Meet young Seth, torn between a devastating illness and strange dreams —...

A.D. Pritchard’s young adult novel, The Pebble Champion, tells the poignant story of fifteen-year-old Chris in the aftermath of surviving the car crash that killed his mother. Sent by Auntie Wendy to live on the Isle of Wight with the father he has never known,...