August 11, 2026
This intense YA story follows 15-year-old high school sophomore Henry Wilton, who has been bullied at school for years, as he turns the table on the teens who torment him and the adults who stand by and let the bullying go unchallenged.
Set in an unnamed American city, this contemporary novel is driven by the […]
August 4, 2026
Author Gregory Rizzi’s science fiction adventure follows a colony of human settlers who—hundreds of years after crash-landing on an inhospitable planet named Ares and slowly building a glorious civilization from the ashes—are on the verge of ideological hatred-fueled self-destruction.
Jakob Daedalus is a young lieutenant in the Praetorian Guard, an elite unit that protects the […]
May 26, 2026
Charles Rellex’s The Benevolent School of Witches is a fantasy tale that chronicles five women’s courageous attempts to protect their school from a powerful, unrelenting force.
Tiffany Galloway is the Mother Supreme and owner of the School of Benevolent Witches, which she has inherited through her family line. She’s determined to safeguard its legacy and […]
May 5, 2026
Stacy R. Ward’s absorbing young adult novel explores deep issues of childhood neglect and environmental contamination through the eyes of its teenage protagonist.
As soon as she receives emancipation from the courts, Meaghan Pullman leaves Ohio and hightails it to San Diego to live and work with her Aunt Tessa, captain of the oceanic explorer […]
April 21, 2026
Jeff Ingber’s novel Collateral Dreams centers on a handful of people caught up in the record-breaking gains of the stock market in 2006.
Everett Webb is a young bond trader, married to Hannah, with a young child, a country club membership and great ambition for much more. His world revolves around the rich and powerful, […]
March 17, 2026
In this winning coming-of-age novel, a young man struggling with ADHD re-captures his childhood sense of wonder on a cross-country road trip with his grandmother.
Eighteen-year-old Oscar is a good kid who can’t seem to get out of his own way. He’s unable – or unwilling – to finish his final few requirements to graduate […]
March 17, 2026
Janelle Gabay’s young adult novel focuses on two rival tennis players, ultimately offering a moving message about friendship and love.
In 2017, Alex Calvo is a charity student at Florida’s T.R. Tennis Academy, desperately working towards earning a college scholarship. Her mom works at Starbucks, and her younger sister is intellectually challenged.
Meanwhile, Madison Nash […]
October 14, 2025
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Singapore, Phineas Cricket’s third novel, aimed at young adults, focuses on a 13-year-old American boy who reluctantly agrees to espionage.
Mike Turner’s parents are missing. Mr. Turner, an American diplomat, worked for the Public Safety Division of USAID. Mrs. Turner accompanied her husband to Da Nang, Vietnam, leaving Mike […]
March 12, 2025
In this upbeat sequel to the middle grade novel The Pet Nanny (2024), readers again encounter Libby Lancaster, the enterprising owner of a pet sitting service, as she’s about to turn 13.
With her parents’ impending divorce, Libby and her mother relocate from her happy suburban life to a downtown Chicago apartment where pre-teen angst […]
June 18, 2024
In Wallace Martin’s young adult novel, set in a small Georgia town in the 1960’s, a 14-year-old boy plays detective, believing the “Goatman” is behind a recent spate of murders.
The Goatman is a matter of controversy. Zeb Barton’s maid, Thelka, tells him she’s seen the man. He has a long beard, she says, raises […]