Targeted Age Group:: Middle Grade and Young Adult "In the Heart of a Mustang" is the winner of the Gold Medal from the Literary Classics Awards, the Silver Medal from the Nautilus Awards, The Silver Medal from the Readers' Favorite Awards and the Winnie Award from the Equus Film Festival. "In the Heart of a Mustang" is one of the finest books ever written for teens and pre-teens." Literary Classics. A boy is told that his father was a brave and virtuous man, a soldier who traded his … [Read more...]
Buyer’s Guide: The Bewitching of Alison Allbright by Alan Davidson
Targeted Age Group:: 10+ Category: YA - Action and Adventure About The Bewitching of Alison Allbright: Alison is discontented with her life, ashamed of her poor home and workaday parents. She longs to have a glamorous mother, lovely new clothes and to go on foreign holidays...just like the others at High School do. When the mysterious Mrs Considine enters her life, gradually turning all her daydreams into reality, Alison is completely bewitched -- until she discovers there's a terrible … [Read more...]
Gift Guide: Class Heroes 4: London Belongs to the Alchemist by Stephen Henning
Targeted Age Group:: 14+ Category: YA- Action/adventure Print book price range: $9.99 eBook price range: $4.99 About Class Heroes 4: London Belongs to the Alchemist: Illegal raves are popping up all over London, the world's fifth richest city, where tension is running high between the haves and the have-nots. Each party, hosted by the enigmatic DJ Alchemy, leaves a trail of destruction in its wake — all thanks to Super D, the latest designer drug on the party circuit. It’s love at … [Read more...]
Gift Guide: Class Heroes 3: Where’s Lolly? by Stephen Henning
Targeted Age Group:: 16+ Category: YA- Action/adventure Print book price range: $5.99 eBook price range: $2.99 About Class Heroes 3: Where’s Lolly?: The girl who has everything, now has a price on her head. Lolly Rosewood is 16 years old and she is on the run. She has arrived in London, penniless, alone and – worse still – she has lost her fearsome superpowers. She is being hunted by the police and the Security Service, MI5. She has no friends and very few people who would want to … [Read more...]
Featured YA Book: KissnTell by Allison Swan and Suzy McCoppin
About KissnTell by Allison Swan and Suzy McCoppin Anais and Vaughn are best friends, misfits, and known throughout their high school as Anus and Vag—nicknames coined by the popular Shrew Crew. But after the sixteen-year-olds are the subjects of a humiliating prank involving laxatives, it’s the last social crucifixion they can stand. So the girls amp up their plain-Jane looks and hit the L.A. scene with a vengeance. What starts as an innocent first kiss with TV star and mega-hunk Baron … [Read more...]
I Want Sam by Kenny Yao
Meet Sam. A computer savvy kid, 17 -year- old Sam Ward is just an ordinary teen, living a normal high-school life. But coming home one day... He found his Father dead on the floor. This changed his life forever. He started running... ...to become the most wanted kid in the entire world. Together with his girlfriend, Delilah, a professional hacker and a gun enthusiast, they decided to fight back. Then they began to search for answers... Will they find the truth about his … [Read more...]
Water’s Edge (Troubled Times #1) by Rachel Meehan
With their own water and power supplies, fourteen year old Nairne, her brother Zane and father Daniel are well prepared to cope with the effects of climate change, but most people are less fortunate. Thousands are fleeing the chaos and social unrest brought about by severe floods, heat waves and droughts which are sweeping across the UK. When Nairne persuades her father to house some of the evacuees on their small holding in the south of Scotland she plunges the family into a world of … [Read more...]
Courage to Change by Sylvie Nickels
Nikki's childhood was blighted by her father's drinking. She knew she would never lose control of her life like that. But things didn't work out as she had planned. This is her story. Targeted Age Group:: teens upwards What Inspired You to Write Your Book? I know a lot of alcoholics, both practising and in recovery. Many young people regard heavy drinking as a joke, but it creates mayhem for those involved and is a killer. … [Read more...]
The Geneva Project – Truth by Christina Benjamin @chrissyb1279
About the Book: Trapped on a flood ravaged island full of orphans, natives and wealthy citizens of the prosperous city Lux, a young girl named Geneva finds herself enslaved at an orphanage with no future and a past she can’t remember. That all changes when she meets someone who promises her that there’s more in store for her than she ever could have imagined. Her once dull life rapidly spirals out of control as she starts to acquire new magical powers that may be the key to unlocking an ancient … [Read more...]
ECHO’s Revenge by Sean Austin @seanaustinaaa
The entire gaming community is in awe of fourteen-year-old Reggie who can take just minutes to destroy the bloodthirsty monster, ECHO-6, in the bestselling video game, ECHO’S Revenge. Reggie can’t wait to test himself against the game’s new and improved monster. But there’s a glitch in the new release. The manufacturer releases a live version of the monster into the real world and now a 35-foot tall extreme predator clad in impenetrable armor with the power to shape-shift and turn invisible … [Read more...]
