Micki Janae’s novel "Of Blood and Lightning" sizzles with excitement as a diverse group of high schoolers are swept into a world of myths. Seventeen-year-old Ophelia is a recent orphan following the death of her father. She moves to... Read More

In K. M. McKenzie’s spirited fantasy novel "The Civilization", a skeptical girl with a heroic destiny learns about dark magic threats to the enchanted, hidden world of her ancestors. Raised by her rambling, nomadic grandfather in North... Read More

A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The Forbidden Book". In a shtetl whose rabbi possesses a text... Read More

In Jordan Ifueko’s novel "The Maid and the Crocodile", an orphaned girl fights to make a home for herself while contending with a cursed god. In Oluwan, while trying to find employment as a maid, Sade accidentally binds herself to the... Read More

Thrilling plot twists, tantalizing clues, and suspicious characters abound in "The Hennessy Lie", a novel about inheritance and identity. In Annette Masters’s intense thriller "The Hennessy Lie", a long-lost family and a surprise... Read More

A sweet, anxious agender teenager comes into their own while facing new challenges in the involving novel "Ugliest". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Ugliest" is the earnest continuation of an agender Oklahoma teenager’s coming-of-age story.... Read More

A high achiever risks all that she’s ever cherished in the hope of realizing a dissipating dream in the exciting thriller "A Lie for a Lie". In Jane Buckingham’s psychological thriller "A Lie for a Lie", a star student forges a... Read More