When a friend in an online chat room experiences an attack, a teen risks everything to help her in the young adult novel, Waiting On You by Joey Paul. When Angelina Harding was a baby, her father left and never returned. Her mother never got...

M.S.P. Williams writes about his life growing up in Listen Mama. Manny writes letters in his journal that are directed at his mother. At 6 months of age, Manny was burned by a medical error that caused him to be disfigured. His mother settled the...

Being Brothers is a nostalgia-driven, coming-of-age sports drama written by Mike DeLucia. The story is narrated by the character of Mark Marino, a New York-based author whose screenplay "Being Brothers" -- about a man named Jack Amato reminiscing his childhood in the Bronx in the...

Entering her first year in high school, a gifted teen determines to be a typical teenage student in the brilliant coming of age novel, Needing Normal (Freshman Year) by Emme Grange. Jett Harper's intelligence is above average. Accustomed to excelling in school, she is expecting...

Em did not expect her life to change just because of one small, after-school detention. It was supposed to be just another day; her mum would be mad that she got in trouble, sure, but she was always mad these days, especially since she was...

Molly and her best friend Nicole have been inseparable since the day that they met back in kindergarten. Now entering fifth grade, the two girls are accepted into a new school in a better neighborhood because of how gifted and smart they are. Molly soon...

Blade of Truth: The De-Coding of Jo is the second book in the Ascending Angel Academy Series by Lali A. Love. The story and struggles of Jo continue as she makes a place for her found family in her heart and ensures that everyone is...

Saints and Martyrs, a debut novel by Aaron Roe, is essentially a coming-of-age story…with an interesting twist. The coming-of-age that the protagonist, Damian Kurt undergoes is enlightenment about the Catholic Church’s religious control which his well-intentioned mother has been exerting over him and his younger...

In Daphne’s Questionable Bet by Sara Jo Cluff, it’s just 16-year-old Daphne and her mom ever since her dad passed away. After moving back to California, her mom’s old high school rivalry is somehow reignited through Daphne and the rival’s daughter, Sierra Winters. The girls...

Chloe, Sarah, and Charlotte are three best friends who have a lot in common when it comes to misfortune. Chloe’s father died a few months earlier and she’s still having trouble coping with the loss. Sarah and her mother had to move from their house...