By Jemma Mahadeo ** Publication Date 2019 (not set yet) ** Billy is a teenager with a problem. For some unknown reason, he has become the most hated kid in school. It may be that he’s kind of a nerd. Or it may be that he is a bit awkward, but aren’t most teenagers? He …
By Jo Treggiari ** Publication Date 24 September 2019 ** When D’s twin sister Kat dies in a plane crash, she finds it hard to piece her life back together. Spider’s brother was also in the plane crash. Spider was Kat’s best friend. D happens to see a photo of a survivor from the crash …
By Tim Wynne-Jones ** Publication Date 10 September 2019 ** Braving the outdoors to head up to his family’s camp in Northern Ontario, Nate has a mission. His friend Dodge went missing several months ago when his family decided to deliver a refrigerator to their own camp, down the road from Nate’s. In a terrible …
By L.D.Crichton ** Publication Date 7 May 2019 ** Kyler and Lennon are teenagers and broken. Kyler suffered severe burns to his face as a young child, disfiguring him for life. Lennon suffers from extreme OCD, and just lost her mom in a tragic drunk driving accident. Now Lennon has had to move to Los …
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes ** Publication Date 7 May 2019 ** The Lovely and the Lost is a story about teenagers, family, and dogs. What drew me to reading it was the dog part of the story, but I had no idea that it would be a story with so much heart. Meeting Kira, Free, …
By Aubrey Hadley ** Publication Date 16 July 2019 ** What would happen if you found yourself all alone in a quarantined neighborhood where all your neighbors were dying of sleeping sickness, and your mother and brother and sister had escaped prior to the quarantine? What if you started noticing glowing creatures out in the …
** Publication Date 30 April 2019 ** By Adi Alsaid This was anything but brief. Great concept and story, but rather long winded. Alsaid does a fabulous job of sharing the trials of being a teenager in and out of love, but takes far too long to get to the whole story. Lu Charles is …
By Gytha Lodge ** Publication date 8 January 2019 ** This book left me wondering almost until the end what went wrong one fateful night thirty years ago. A well played mystery by Gytha Lodge, this first novel in the Jonah Sheens series left me wanting more. More mysteries, more tales to tell. While this …
By Jessica Barksdale Inclan Prime takes us to a world covered in water. A future place where the ice caps are melting and the human race has been forced onto the high ground that’s left, or living in squalor in water-filled areas. It’s not such a stretch, if you believe in climate change. This YA …
By Sharon Myrick **Publication Date 14-August-2018** At first I wasn’t quite sure what to think of School Tales. It came across haltingly, as though it struggled to find a voice. Or perhaps too many voices. It felt like a manual for how to teach high school. But it definitely kept my attention and made me …