Young Adult Fiction, Coming of Age
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Discovering The Essence
by Leanna Byrd
Best friends Leah and Angela love exploring the world around them. Their time being out in nature and discovering new trails in the woods or spending hours by a lake differ from their teenage peers, who seem to be on a more traditional path in...
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The Battle of Islaag
by Josée Lefebvre
Feeling invincible, Overlord Aart Xerxes has arrived at the Bion with an insatiable will for power. The ruthless overlord plans to use the newly awakened Omorfians to help him conquer his rival kingdom, Islaag. But members of his entourage,...
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The Battle of Islaag
by Josée Lefebvre
Feeling invincible, Overlord Aart Xerxes has arrived at the Bion with an insatiable will for power. The ruthless overlord plans to use the newly awakened Omorfians to help him conquer his rival kingdom, Islaag. But members of his entourage,...
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Grampa's Way
by Ross L. Clarke
When thirteen-year-old Nathan loses both his parents, Social Services seems likely to be his next stop. Surprisingly, his maternal grandfather, a freewheeling soul if ever there was one, steps in to offer guardianship and support. Can Grampa...
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The Gala on the Night
by Justin Kanjirakattu
When siblings Joshua and Fuchsia Hilton rediscover their late Aunt Leila’s diamond ring, they soon find out about its hidden powers. When Leila’s old lover, Peter, chases them out of their small Massachusetts town in pursuit of the powerful ring,...
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Lucid
by Lane Catherine Cho
When sixteen-year-old May gets the chance to start over in the small town of Lockwood, she’s determined not to let anything ruin it. Not her chronic exhaustion, not the enigmatic boy she’s drawn to, and definitely not the truth about what happens...
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Chosen by the Blade
by S. R. Sereda
Orion, a student of the Academy, a school that trains devotees of the god Aarus, is about to have his eighteenth birthday. Trained to be a Chronicler, a historian who travels from town to town documenting important events, he is looking forward...
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Burning the Boats
by Christina Minaki
Naomi Demas is seventeen, and her relationship with her mother is conflicted. Irene is obsessive and strange. She has never gotten over Naomi’s disability, or her twin’s infant death. When Naomi was eight, Irene left with Naomi’s older sister....
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All That Remain
by Becca Sandford
When the bus that Jessa is on with her high school’s football team takes a wrong turn into remote mountainous wilderness, she has an ominous feeling. Soon after, a rock slide crashes into the bus and kills half her classmates, the driver, and all...
