Rise of Howlers by Bob Bannon is a dystopian young adult novel set on the high seas. Around ten years previously a massive meteor shower struck the earth and, along with almost wiping out civilization, much of the earth’s land mass was forever altered and...

Even though she was a princess, Julia had never known the luxuries that came with her title. Her mother, the one person who loved and cared for her the most, died shortly after she was born. Her father left her with the servants and the...

Hollywood via Orchard Street is an historical fiction novel written by Wayne Clark. It all started when Charles Czerny found that typewriter in the refuse left by the firefighters after a fire on Mangin Street. Just the fact that it was found on Mangin Street...

Petunia isn’t quite sure how she managed to become a heroine, but now that she is one there’s no way out. It seems that everyone has heard of her and her ‘amazing’ feat and there’s no way that she can come clean about it. That...

In Accidentally Perfect by Elizabeth Stevens, Piper Barlow is perfect, or so everyone thinks. In reality, she finds herself feeling sad and all alone, even though she has a loving family and plenty of friends. She just doesn’t feel comfortable expressing herself since she thinks...

Where Dragonwoofs Sleep and the Fading Creeps is a coming of age fantasy novel for young adults and preteens written by A.J. Massey. Ben’s life was rather more complicated than that of most 13-year-olds. All he had left of his dad was a broken watch,...

Dreamcatcher by Ann Curtin relates the story of a young boy, Jesse, living with his dad and moving from ranch to ranch. But at the current ranch, his dad manages to get the foreman’s job and it’s not a broken-down ranch. Maybe things will look...

Leeway by I.O. Jones is a novel that captures the tensions and the stress that accompany life in a high school in a city like New York, a book with a strong appeal for young adult readers, especially female adolescents. We encounter a young protagonist,...

We read a lot of war memoirs from those who have been at the front, but what happens to those left behind? In Home Front: A Memoir from WWII, C.D. Peterson chronicles life in a rural community just before, during, and after the war, following...

Alone at War by AM Brussel takes us into the life of 14-year-old Sara, who has been left on her own through tragedy to care for her younger sister in France during the raging of WWI. Sara is forced to do things she might not...