Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
★★★★☆ Sea Witch by Sarah Henning is the story of how a young girl, desperate to protect those she loves and find a place in her society, becomes the villain in “The Little Mermaid”...
Category: YA
Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill
★★★★★ Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill is the story of a boy fighting for survival and discovering who he wants to be. The novel begins with the narrator refusing to give his...
Whisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
★★★★★ Sarah Tolcser’s Whisper of the Tide follows Caroline Orestia and Markos Andela in an action-packed sequel to The Song of the Current (2017). Caroline and Markos are living in Valonikos and planning their next move...
Zen and Gone by Emily France
★★★★☆ Emily France wastes no time plunging her readers straight into the crisis of Zen and Gone. No sooner do we crack the book’s spine than we find our heroine, 17-year-old Essa McKree, searching...
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
★★★★☆ Moonrise by Sarah Crossan is a heartbreaking story of life and death that reveals how death sentences affect prisoners and their families. Joe is a teenager who’s brother Ed has been sentenced to...
Folded Notes from High School by Matt Boren
★★★☆☆ Folded Notes from High School by Matt Boren is a story about teenagers in the early 90’s. Through handwritten note format, the reader follows senior Tara Maureen Murphy, as well as her boyfriend,...
A Tyranny of Petticoats Edited by Jessica Spotswood
★★★★☆ A Tyranny of Petticoats contains 15 action-packed historical short stories featuring ambitious and awesome women. With an eye-catching cover and subtitle (15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, & Other Badass Girls), the reader...
A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho
★★☆☆☆ After graduating high school, Finley leaves her mom in NYC to visit her dad in Maine for the summer. But as Cristina Moracho shows in A Good Idea, everything has changed since Finley’s...
Signs of You by Emily France
★★★★★ Riley’s mother has been dead for two years when Riley spots her in a Heinen’s supermarket, nonchalantly perusing bubble bath as though she wasn’t even supposed to be six feet beneath the cold...
