Centering an Armenian boy, N. T. McQueen’s outstanding historical novel "Never Hide from the Devil" roils around a genocide, as Turkish forces surround the city of Van. Most of the story takes place over one month in 1915, when the... Read More

A girl uncovers the truth about her family and community in Sheri Yutzy’s atmospheric fantasy novel "The Seller of Secrets". Bell is a scentmaker who lives on the island of Bardia, where some people have elemental magical powers. Bell... Read More

In Israel Moya’s engaging coming-of-age novel "Monarchs in the Wild", an aimless teenage boy living in a place with few options considers life after high school. In a small California town in the 1990s, Cal is about to graduate high... Read More

In Lee Wind’s exciting novel "A Different Kind of Enemy", teenage spies scramble through an alien panic and a strained marriage. Nineteen days into their marriage, unbeknownst to each other’s callings, Nico and Sam are separately... Read More

Historical abuses haunt a girl’s new seaside home in the intriguing novel "The Secret of Spirit Lake". In Jane Haltmaier’s earnest supernatural novel "The Secret of Spirit Lake", the inhabitants of a Victorian home contend with... Read More

A resourceful teenager comes into her own while working as an intern on a research vessel in the affecting novel "Too Deep to Drown". In Stacy R. Ward’s aching, ecoconscious novel "Too Deep to Drown", a teenager matures while working... Read More

"The Reel Life of Zara Kegg" is an evocative romance novel in which teenagers fall in love during their beach town’s offseason. Featuring vintage cinema, carnival work, and vulnerable, misfit teenagers, Brad Barkley’s novel about... Read More

A girl explores a strange world of magic in K. B. Spangler and Alexandra Presser’s fantastical graphic novel "SideQuested". Charlie trains to be a librarian. Her plans are upset when she learns that her caretakers of eighteen years are... Read More