November 1, 2024

Not Not Normal

Jordan and Nathan couldn’t be more different, but when order and chaos collide, opposites attract. Jordan is a bit of an oddball at school. He likes rules, routine, old sci-fi novels, and is often the victim of his bully’s torment. When new student Nathan joins the school, he wears down Jordan’s walls and, with his love, empowers Jordan to stand up for himself. Nathan’s parents are going through a divorce, and at a new school in a new city Jordan provides him with the stability he can’t find at home. Through their friendship and eventually their romance, Jordan embraces his […]
July 5, 2024

The Forest Demands Its Due

Regent Academy had a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious–and even more entangled with the forest–than anyone would suspect. Seventeen-year-old Douglas wants nothing to do with Regent’s king-making; he’s just trying to forget his previous life and survive his present. But then a student is killed, and no one except Douglas and the groundskeeper’s son, Everett, remembers him ever existing. As Douglas begins to research what he finds […]
May 3, 2024
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Infinity Alchemist

Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love and extraordinary power. Acclaimed author Kacen Callender turns their formidable skill to young-adult fantasy for the first time. The story follows Ash Woods, a young alchemist who must hide his practice of alchemy due to strict laws governing its use. Magic used to be believed as a gift only for special people. Now, it’s known that anyone can become an alchemist. But legally, only licensed alchemists can use advanced energy. The first tier is open to everyone, involving basic life […]
May 3, 2024

Deficient

The near future is progressively free from discrimination based on race, class and sexual orientation. But in a world populated by the gifted, fifteen-year-old Alejandro Aragon (Alé) is part of the only remaining minority – he’s a Deficient. Powerless. The one that accelerated genetics left behind. Ale knows that he’ll need a miracle to graduate and pursue his dream of a legal career in the capital. His only ally is his best friend Yalamba, an outspoken and exceptionally gifted artist renowned for her unique ability to draw things into existence. But when she’s kidnapped in a hate crime against her […]
March 1, 2024

A Crooked Mark

Matt has grown up skipping from town to town alongside his father, hunting anyone whose soul the devil has marked. They have one purpose: Find these people, and exterminate them. But when Matt starts to fall for Rae, to make friends for the first time in his life, he’s not sure who or what to believe anymore. How can someone like Rae, someone who is thoughtful and smart and kind, be an agent of the devil? With the lines of reality and fantasy, myth and paranoia blurred, Matt confronts an awful truth: What if the devil’s mark doesn’t exist?   […]
March 1, 2024
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With a Little Luck

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love. Jude just wants to draw comics, work at his parents’ vinyl record store and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, his art is being published. He helps his friend’s song become a finalist in a songwriting competition. And he wins a pair of coveted concert tickets he can use to ask out the popular girl he’s been crushing on. […]
March 1, 2024

I Loved You in Another Life

A poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the ages. Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father’s departure. But after his mom’s unexpected diagnosis, as Evan’s plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer. Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she’s headed to performing arts college. But when a drunk driver takes her sister’s life, all […]
January 5, 2024

Running Mates

In the quaint yet politically charged town of Edgartown, North Carolina, two worlds are about to collide. Meet Gabe Delgado, the quintessential all-American boy, molded by his conservative, Cuban senator father. Across town there’s Annabelle Morningstar, an impassioned, quirky high school activist raised by her news anchor and surgeon mothers, both champions of progressive ideals. Edgartown is a town literally divided―the Liberal East and the Conservative North coexisting as neighbors but rarely as friends. But what happens when the two sides meet in the least likely of places: a local bookstore? Running Mates is not just a heartwarming coming-of-age tale. […]
January 5, 2024

Call Me Iggy

Ignacio “Iggy” Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian-American teen whose world is spun around when he bumps into Marisol at school. As he stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito dead, but he also gives terrible love advice. This is the story of Iggy searching for his place in his family, school, community and country. The novel challenges assumptions about Latino-American identity while reaffirming belief in the hope that all young people represent.   Quirkiness aside, this graphic novel has a lot to offer aside […]
January 5, 2024

Stranger Danger

No phones. No internet. No social media at all. That’s what it’s going to take to finally get serious about school and focus on exams. Nova, Vin and Lotus even rented a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere so they won’t get distracted. After that, everything can go back to normal. But they aren’t alone. Someone is watching them from the forest. Someone who knows their secrets. Someone who wants revenge. And things will never be the same again.   This dramatic, contemporary thriller involves inappropriate sexual relations, bullying, counter-bullying, blackmail, romantic triangles and revenge. What makes it particularly intriguing […]