Young Adult
Fierce Voice
Iz has found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present. Will her newfound loved ones abandon her if they learn her terrible history?
Excavating Fate
South Coast Allsorts
Six teenagers from different backgrounds - outsider Kate, pirate Patrick, golden boy Teddy, princess Lady, loner Dana, and Dougie, the rebel - all find themselves on a South Coast bridge one Saturday night and decide to face their demons together.
Button Box - Rascals and Revenge
Susan time slips between two different worlds - her everyday present is at home and school but by night she has a magical past in Victorian London. There, resourceful orphan boy Baxter has taken her under his wing like a sister. Pearly King coster boy and rat catcher, Baxter’s trades bring them into unusual company, children alone in the city and living on the margins of society. When Baxter and Susan fall into the employ of Bram Jarvis, a man with revenge on his mind, they are soon drawn in to strange new adventures.
Addicted
A Stone's Throw
Set in San Francisco in 1969, Maggie Stone is the twelve-year-old daughter of a single mother who suffers from a mental condition that sends her to bed unresponsive for hours at a time. Forced to be the responsible adult since the age of eight, Maggie has had to do the household shopping, cooking, cleaning and money management chores. When her mother is hospitalized after lapsing into an extended coma, Maggie is sent to an orphanage. A month later her grandfather Ira, whom Maggie has never met, suddenly shows up in San Francisco to whisk Maggie away to his ranch in Montana.
Faeries Don't Lie
Eve's Covering
Einstein's Compass a YA Time Traveler Adventure
Einstein’s Compass by Grace Blair is a “YA Time Traveler Adventure.” Historical fantasy science fiction. The book intertwines events in Albert Einstein’s life with fantastical elements while including scientific concepts. Topics that emerge include coming of age, antisemitism, and bullying. Most of us are familiar with Einstein’s legacy as a scientific genius and a giant of physics. But where did his ideas originate? How can one person be so brilliant?