With nods to The Chronicles of Narnia and even Alice in Wonderland, The Lost Story begins with an intriguing premise. Two fifteen-year-old boys are lost in the woods for months. When they return, one cannot remember anything and the other refuses to talk about it. Fifteen years later, they meetContinue Reading
The Arcadia is a cruise ship carrying hundreds of passengers. The passengers and their ancestors have been stuck on the ship for over forty years. War and a pandemic forced The Stranded onto a destination free voyage. It is survival but at what cost? Teenagers Esther and Nik both hopeContinue Reading
I haven’t read a novel where I really wanted to the slap the main character in years. But Don’t Let In the Cold is that kind of book. Lottie is a troubled seventeen-year-old who is tasked with watching her brand new fifteen-year-old stepsister Jade for one night in an isolatedContinue Reading
Akari is a typical girl trying to fit into her clique in Japanese high school. All the boys look the same to her. None seem hot to her. But Yuki intrigues Akari. Yuki doesn’t feel the need to blend in with the other girls. In fact, her calmness makes herContinue Reading
You are (not) Deadpool is a fun and engaging mashup of Dungeons & Dragons with a Chose Your Own Adventure book plot! Join Deadpool on a search for alien guns in New York City. Don’t forget your paper, pencil and dice because there is quite a bit of recordkeeping requiredContinue Reading
In Friend of the Devil, insurance investigator Sam is looking for a missing rare book at the hoity-toity boarding school, Danforth Putnam. He is helped, and hindered, by the school’s faculty, staff, and students. But what he ultimately finds will be miraculous. Friend of the Devil is marketed as aContinue Reading
In the new graphic novel Girl on Fire, Lolo is fourteen but already in tenth grade with her older brother, James. Their father, Billy Wright, owns his own moving company. Their grandmother, Vivian, lives with them in the projects. High school in the inner city is tough on Lolo. SheContinue Reading
The love-hate relationship between teenage girl bffs is explored in Cherish Farrah. Farrah is the child of upper middle-class black parents. Her best friend, Cherish, is the black adopted daughter of even wealthier white parents. When Farrah’s parents have financial difficulties, she decides to take over Cherish’s life of beingContinue Reading
Sometimes you feel like reading a light breezy romance. When You Get the Chance is that type of book. Millie is a drama kid in a NYC high school. But she wants more. Her goal this summer is to get parental permission to go to a prestigious drama school inContinue Reading
Get ready to go on a grand adventure! Sherlock Holmes is melancholy so Enola, his younger sister, steps in to help a young woman whose twin sister has died mysteriously. Sherlock can’t stop himself from joining the chase to discover what happened to the recently married Flossie. But Enola hasContinue Reading
It’s Cody’s first day of high school. When her sister won’t let her sit with the cool kids, she is stuck at the loser’s table. There she meets Faye, a girl in a witch hat with similar life skills. Faye’s a witch—but not a Witch for Hire—at least not yet…Continue Reading
In An Unkindness of Ravens, a girl named Waverly goes missing at Danforth High. A new girl, Wilma who looks uncannily like Waverly, is given her old locker. Because of her psychic abilities, Wilma can see an invisible message left in her locker filled with satanic imagery. Waverly was partContinue Reading
Ace of Spades is set in a private prep school that is rocked by the text revelations of Aces. Aces is going after the school’s most popular girl, Chiamaka, who has her entire life planned meticulously, and musician, Devon. It’s best to know nothing about the plot going in. IContinue Reading
In Evelyn and the Kung Fu Headmaster, it’s 2130. The Internet of Things has expanded exponentially. Even the couch cushions massage, heat and emit perfume. Everything from cars to helicopters are self-driving. But there’s a problem. Recently, self-driving vehicles have been crashing, killing everyone on board. A virus named VictorContinue Reading
Abby opens a You have a Match link on a DNA ancestry site. What would you do if your DNA test locates a completely unknown older sister? Would you rejoice? Or would you obsess over why your parents never mentioned a sister before? Abby decides to sneak off to summerContinue Reading
Being a teenager is hard enough. But add in the stress of being a perfect influencer on social media and it is a powder keg just waiting for a lit match to set it off. Influence tells the story of newly transplanted Minnesotan, Delilah, as she tries to climb theContinue Reading