These are books, print or digital, for young adults or YA enthusiasts.
On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously stated in the case of Brown vs the Board of Education, Topeka, that facilities segregating white and black children were unequal and therefore violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The justices also ordered the states to integrate. How did…
Magz, a senior at Saint Christopher’s High School, can’t wait to graduate and leave Santolsa, a sleepy desert town in the middle of nowhere. Her parents are never around, busy running from one business trip to another. Her best friend Jack is like a brother to her as they fend off bullies and a boring…
Kendra Falstaff has big plans to leave Middleton, a small town three hours from Toronto, to attend the university and become a lawyer. Employed by her Aunt Irene at a small restaurant in town, Kendra and brother Jimmy were also raised by their aunt after their mother’s untimely death. Unfortunately, Kendra’s plans seem washed away…
Frannie James and twin brother Jeff have been uprooted from their Iowa home to a farmhouse in rural Oregon. Their father, a bank executive has been transferred to a more lucrative job, and their mother ran away when the twins were very young. One night, a gray veiled ghost appears to Frannie in her bedroom….
Talia Marby is between jobs. She endured a position at a Boston commercial real estate firm for a better part of a year, but resigned because she hated the job. Her boyfriend, Chet, refused to support her decision, so Talia returned to Wrensdale, Massachusetts, the small New England town where she grew up. Talia moved…
You’ve seen them on library and book store shelves—a book series. They are actually a book sequence having certain elements in common including characters, setting, and timeline. Some works in a series can be read in any order, like the Koolura Series. In a “Stand Alone” series each book makes few references to previous books…
The Boneyards of Nebula (Sons of Neptune Book 4) is the last installment of Rod Little’s captivating Sons of Neptune series. Tucked away safely on Starbase 21, the men and women of Earth receive a distress signal from a dark anomaly in space; a starship graveyard known as the Boneyards of Nebula. Not one to…
Anne Loader McGee, author of Anni’s Attic and the Cedar Creek Mystery Series, has accumulated six short stories in an eighteen-page e-book. They are strange tales that will remind readers of myths or legends from their youth. “Love Song of the Waterfall” is a good example. It’s a sad story about a Maori Maiden who dies…
The Last Starbase is book 3 in the Sons of Neptune series. Shane, Sam, and company discover an ancient starship, the Praihawk, buried in the Artic and plan to use it to get help from their ancestors of long ago. The Peak, a refugee stronghold established by Shane and Sam, is attracting survivors of the alien…
Revenge of the Spiders is book 2 in Rod Little’s four book series, Sons of Neptune. In book one, Earthweeds, the novel’s two protagonist brothers, Shane and Sam, return from a mountain hunting trip to find their home has been invaded by large man-eating lizards created by the Sayans, an alien race of humanoids. The young…