Aelth Faye presents another standalone installment of the Fairytale Hour series with a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Wave Dancer tells the story of Niya, the youngest daughter of the underwater empire, which has been suffering due to the acts of the...

India is under British rule, and Balkishan, a newly appointed teacher, meets Lakshmi, a 14-year-old girl who is to be married to a 40-year-old man. Lakshmi and Balkishan both feel an instant attraction for each other. Lakshmi, desperate to avoid her marriage, runs away with...

On the Waterfront by Mike McCoy is the coming-of-age story of thirteen-year-old Danny Novak, a child of divorced parents in the early 70s who was eager to get away from his unhappy family by getting a job as a summer camp staffer. He first saw...

The engaging, inspirational coming-of-age novel, Topping the Willow by Lori Closter, is a story about redemption, forgiveness, and healing. Brittany Warner cannot wait to break away from her mother’s control and make her own decisions but for now, she knows fighting her is not worth...

After so much practice, Sloane finds herself at the Olympic games in Beijing representing her country, the USA. She meets Jae Sung, a male swimmer from North Korea. Before they knew it, they had fallen head over heels for each other. However, the future of...

Brazen Summer by Jordan Elizabeth is the second Hayview Manor book. It’s summer again and Annie Carmichael is about to graduate at eighteen years old. She’s hoping that this summer will be better than the last and that she’ll at least have a summer fling....

SPVCE is a work of fiction in the science fiction and adventure subgenres. The work is aimed at the young adult readership and contains some mild explicit language, and was penned by A. W. Karen. This superb space-age adventure tale focuses on the budding career...

Red Clay Suzie: A Novel Inspired by True Events by Jeffrey Dale Lofton is a captivating story of an LGBTQ boy growing up in Georgia, USA. Growing up as “different” in the South, Philbet regales us with stories of his youth and family. He entertains...

If We Were Heroes is a young adult novel by Christine Anna Kirchoff. Set in a dystopian world, Ember is the subject of a documentary about the rise and fall of humanity, both of which were caused by herself and her family. When news that...

In Phoenix Revived by Judy McCluney, classified as young adult reading, we meet a group of teens and parents living in South Phoenix where they must fight prejudice as regards immigration, and the environment as regards oil refineries. These are the big issues that add...