A teenage spy falls for her sworn enemy and faces impossible choices in Leah Angstman’s novel "Falcon in the Dive". Ani’s comfortable childhood was cut short by the greed of the wealthy, merciless Beaumercy family. As the French... Read More
In Jessica Flory’s novel "Oceans of Sand", teenagers travel across a desert world plagued by famine to save their people. Zadock is the most powerful shaker his age. He’s able to control the sands that his people live on. His father... Read More
In the entertaining historical mystery novel "A Skeleton in Every House", addiction and ambition fuel crimes that strike close to a young journalist’s home. A journalist is enmeshed in a murder case in Isabella Duke’s erudite... Read More
Bianca Goddard, an alchemist’s daughter living in the last years of Henry VIII’s rule, is called upon by the local constable to help solve a murder in Mary Lawrence’s "The Lost Boys of London". The victim is a boy, found hanging at... Read More
2019 SILVER Winner for Political and Social Sciences
On Good Friday, a white high school student, Shawnee, shoots his black classmate, Gunther, before attempting suicide. Alice Lichtenstein’s provocative novel "The Crime of Being" covers the fallout after both teens survive the hate... Read More