February 3, 2023
Nick Pappas—a teenage boy with nascent superpowers—has his world turned upside down when he’s taken into witness protection after his superhero father is murdered on national television. But things are not what they appear to be in the small town to which he’s relocated. He soon discovers that not only is it populated with family members of super villains, but it’s also a prison and he’s considered one of its most dangerous inmates. He can’t be sure who to trust, and to make matters worse, he’s developing powers of his own—with no way to control them. This novel is pretty […]
February 3, 2023
There are no cheat codes for showmance. Seventeen-year-old gaymer Noah Mitchell has only one friend left: the wonderful, funny, strictly online-only MagePants69. After years playing RPGs together, they know everything about each other, except anything that would give away their real-life identities. And Noah is certain that if they could just meet in person, they would be soulmates. Noah would do anything to make this happen―including finally leaving his gaming chair to join a community theater show that he’s only mostly sure MagePants69 is performing in. Noah has never done anything like theater―he can’t sing, he can’t dance and he’s […]
January 6, 2023
Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn’t fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth. Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self. Laz has no idea what happened to the world he remembers as vibrant and bustling only yesterday, and he struggles to survive in the barren […]
January 6, 2023
Some people dream of happily ever after, but all 17-year-old Josh Roberts wants is a roof over his head and for his little brother to be safe. Josh’s father has gone missing without a trace. Now Josh and his 9-year-old brother, Twig, are stuck living with Gran in her trailer. Problem is, Gran didn’t ask to take care of any kids, and she’s threatening to call Social Services unless Josh can find his dad. After paying off Gran to take in his little brother, Josh risks truancy and getting kicked off his basketball team to take to the streets and […]
January 6, 2023
Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged into service on Sorcerer, the airship that’s haunted his dreams since the last midnight games, and quickly discovers its terrifying secrets. Now Nate is headed just where he doesn’t want to go, to the Pacific Ocean, where a Great Old One, […]
January 6, 2023
From the artist of Marvel Comics’ daredevil Marco Checchetto, comes a thrilling new adventure! Where were you when the cloud arrived? Where were you when the world changed forever? Where were you when people started dying? It’s at the limits between science fiction, action and horror. This graphic novel is gritty, with zombies and hard choices, heartbreak and tortured, war-weary characters. Note that there’s some language and graphic violence–if it was a movie, it’d be hard to escape an R rating, or a “not for people under 17.” Up to you, but consider yourself warned. A mysterious cloud spreads across […]
December 2, 2022
There’s plenty of tension and gore in this supernatural thriller, which is lightened up by an on-again/off-again pursual of romance between the lead characters. The story features a family of monster exterminators (headed by co-lead Liam, age 18) and a family in need of monster exterminators (featuring Olivia, age 18). The monster-chasers eliminate vampires, ghosts, witches, ghouls, indigos, wendigos and more, and come supplied with enough spook-demobilizing equipment and know-how to impress James Bond. The writing pulls you right along; it’s good enough to override some of the less believable aspects of the plot. For example, Olivia’s willingness to have […]
December 2, 2022
A coming-of-age teen is thrown into a world of ancient secrets when he discovers a supernatural artifact that protects a weapon of mass destruction. With the help of a diverse group of friends, he embarks on a global adventure, seeking the truth about his sister’s death, and uncovers two clandestine, supernatural societies waging an epic, hidden war that threatens the future of civilization. D. J. Williams’s suspenseful, page-turning style whisks readers into a wildly exciting, supernatural adventure that grabs hold of the imagination and never lets go. As Jack races to collect ancient artifacts critical to the survival of the […]
November 4, 2022
Under a persistent rain, which seems destined to never subside, Stavros lives and moves through the streets of a dark and gloomy nameless city…. Several different voices talk to him – sometimes whispering, sometimes whining or yelling – whenever he hears the water running. One day, Stavros wanders the city under a heavy rain; voices become insistent, revealing his deepest, unspeakable secrets as well as his dreams and memories. He is tormented by these mysterious voices, perhaps a sign of his madness. Or perhaps of a wider, collective madness, which infects everyone around him, to the point of being transmitted […]
November 4, 2022
This lively graphic novel follows a diverse group of teenage friends as they discover that computing can be fun, creative and empowering. Taylor, Christine, Antonio and Jon seem like typical young teens–they communicate via endless texting, they share jokes, they worry about starting high school and they have each other’s backs. But when a racially-biased artificial intelligence system causes harm in their neighborhood, they suddenly realize that tech isn’t as neutral as they thought it was. But can an algorithm be racist? And what is an algorithm, anyway? Power On! follows the story of four teenagers trying to navigate their […]