Dad’s the one who messed up in my family, but I’m the one who has to go see a therapist. On what planet does that make sense? In "Alex and the Amazing Dr. Frankenslime", a novel by Margot Desannoy for children ages nine to fourteen,... Read More

Young women yearn for romance, for prince charming, and sometimes for more than one suitor. Those fantasies are reality for Kelsey Hayes, an eighteen-year-old American college student, who in an earlier book in Colleen Houck’s Tiger... Read More

"Leaving Yesler" encounters seventeen year-old Bobby Vincente in the wake of his older brother’s military death. Faced with the challenge of caring for his aging father, this young man from urban Seattle’s housing projects is forced... Read More

Jason Smallfield’s father, Trevor, is a professional stuntman and karate instructor. To everyone else in the world, Trevor might seem like a hero, but for Jason he is the exact opposite. Trevor left his wife when Jason was very young... Read More

“The rain crashed against the deck’s wooden planks with fury, and the wind howled with no remorse,” Angie Brijpaul writes. The scuba boat suddenly lurches, the captain’s limp body lies across the steering wheel, and the boat... Read More

Diaphanous and deceptive, Light Beneath Ferns is a subtle ghost story narrated by Elizah Rayne, a critical and thoughtful fourteen-year-old girl who prefers her own dark and insightful thoughts to the prattle of her classmates. At the... Read More

When Betsy Franco’s young Ovid reflects Seems like we’re all just groping our way through a labyrinth fighting our personal minotaurs morphing into who we really are like it or not he seems to be chan-neling his namesake sharing the... Read More

“He’s going to die…and it’s going to be your fault.” When Princess Christa hears this chilling prophecy, she fears it refers to her secret boyfriend, Daemen, a peasant who works as a groundskeeper at her castle. Christa and... Read More