Some biographies can touch you in ways you wouldn’t have imagined. Walking the Line: There is No Time for Hate by Joshua William Clauer and Judith Gwinn Adrian is one of those. Although written to inspire teens and pre-teens to reject the gang lifestyle, this...

We Don't Matter by Juliet Rose is a coming-of-age story of a young man who discovered himself in the strangest of ways. Aidan was just 22 years old and was on his way to graduating from college. However, Aiden wasn’t so sure what he wanted...

Get ready for an emotional journey that is impossible to put down. Wildfire by Adriana Gisselle tells the story of two polar opposite teenagers whose rivalry begins when they are thrown together for a science fair project in the eighth grade. Catherine is the perfect...

What Is Coronavirus? is not only a question on the lips of millions of people, it is also the name of a very informative book on the subject by Sabbithry Persad. Sabbithry seeks to clear the air concerning the what, how, why, and how long...

Whatever Tomorrow Brings by Claire Nance takes me back to my high school years with hanging out at lockers, sliding into class as the tardy bell rings, and all of the drama with boyfriends and girlfriends. The story revolves around Dee Anderson, her boyfriend Slate,...

We the Wild Things is a young adult, adventure novel written by Brian McBride. Peter has been bouncing from one foster family to another. His caseworker, Eddie, is optimistic for him. He assures Peter that the Donahue family are good people. Eddie is trying hard...

Whereabouts is a coming-of-age story set in the rural south during the 70s. Seventeen-year-old Missy Belue's life turns upside down when her father dies of a massive heart attack, leading to her mother marrying the town mortician. Feeling emancipated in her humdrum life, Missy sees...

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...

Words We Never Say by Heidi Dischler is a moving young adult romance that pulls on your heartstrings. It centers on college-age Emery McQuain, who thinks she has her life pretty much in hand--plans for college, a boyfriend who loves her even if she is...

Winter Light by Martha Engber is a coming-of-age novel that gives us a stark reminder of the narrow line between success and failure, sorrow and joy, contentment and destruction that so many of our teenagers are forced to navigate in those dangerous and yet potentially...