Squad Goals by Shequeta Smith, Qazzran Alamry, and Alivon Ortiz begins with four different young women who are arrested for crimes committed under complicated circumstances. After being sentenced to the Wiley Moon Juvenile Detention Center, they are forcibly united through an unorthodox rehabilitation project: competing...

The Saving of Verano is a sci-fi novel by Ken Helfer. It's the 27th century, and humanity has successfully colonized Mars and set up bases on Luna. Selby Ricks, an Earthian, is on his first trip to Mars when he is unexpectedly visited by a...

Mother Knows Best is a short story by Valerie Allen. Bobby has finished high school and is working as a dishwasher in a restaurant to pay for his car insurance while he continues to live at home. His parents Maggie and Jimmy are extremely agitated...

Cheers! The Path You Choose #3 is a “choose your own story” book. As the title implies, it’s the third book of a series by Jill Ammon Vanderwood and a continuation of the previous book. However, people don’t need to have read the earlier book,...

On Being Jen: A Short, What If Story by S. R. Mallery is a quick read aimed at the young adult market. Jen Mitchell appears to have it all. Looks, popularity, the perfect nuclear family, and the sports captain for her boyfriend. Susan, on the...

Novels and films about girl friendships that end up in backstabbing are a dime a dozen, and most of them are dumb and forgettable. Zachary Ryan changes that with his intriguing and smart novel, The Perfect Sister. Tinsley is the main protagonist, a girl who...

Finding Zane by Eliza Tilton is the second book in the Dreamscapes series, but it serves as a standalone novel. Meredith works at her family's toy shop, and she's taken on even more responsibilities now that her dad is sick and her uncle is away...

Why do we still find ourselves in love with those who hurt us? Is it because we still perceive their worth - directly related to how little we value ourselves - or is it a result of unresolved relationship issues? Susan K. Hamilton's Stone Heart...

A couple of young teens in 1960s-era California find a new outlet for their reckless sense of adventure in Culver City, a novel for young adults by Brant Vickers. Cassady and Kyle are buddies who get along well and tire of the drug-laden experiences their...

Seventeen-year-old Alexandros was the only child of his farmer parents. They were dirt poor and lived on the island of Anafi, where there was nothing to do except farm and fish. Alexandros was very annoyed at his father, who refused to grow anything but beans...