Mixing a teenage romance with political and environmental commentary, The Year Without a Summer is an inspiring novel. In Arlene Mark’s novel The Year Without a Summer, two teenagers cultivate their empathy and global awareness while... Read More

For Noah, who is grieving, familiar sights take on new, morose dimensions. For brave Mia, a girl without a home, her cat’s adventure is worth an open tag-along. Destiny—and the love of their furry companions—brings Noah and Mia,... Read More

Cool tones of rippling waves and weathered wood contrast with patches of orange and pink in the splashy illustrations of this story about working together and never giving up. Gus wants to swim and refuses to accept his best friend... Read More

In Robert McGill’s speculative novel, complex social problems are met with an innovative, controversial technology that bursts onto the black market scene. After eighteen-year-old Regan decides to kill herself, she orders a toxic... Read More

An observational tragicomedy that follows five days of a holiday weekend, Chloe Lane’s novel "The Swimmers" puts life’s unsparing absurdities on full display as a family tries to execute an illegal, life-terminating request. One year... Read More

In Jill Frayne’s heartbreaking novel Why I’m Here, a teenager’s struggle to find her place in the world requires making difficult choices. Helen is a social worker who is asked to help Gale, a ticking time bomb of a teenager who... Read More

The line between figurative and literal beasts is blurred in the inventive stories of Sam J. Miller’s Boys, Beasts & Men. The book’s conjured funhouse worlds are both familiar and alien. Small-town family tensions are exacerbated... Read More

“Wellness is something we work for and achieve with daily practices, choices, and behaviors,” Jovanka Ciares writes in "Reclaiming Wellness", which combines dietary advice with information on traditional curative techniques to craft... Read More