Gold Mountain Working on the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860’s was dangerous business, but it also meant getting enough money to get her dad out of prison. Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and travels to from China to California to try her luck, and hope that it doesn’t run … Read more
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen Hoodie is funny. He’s also an Orthodox Jew living in a town that isn’t thrilled that he and his community have recently relocated there. An accidental friendship with a cool girl he meets who happens to be the mayor’s daughter starts to ramp up just as tempers and … Read more
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me Though he lived with lots of violence and dysfunction in his family, Rex always had his abuela who for comfort, support and most of all, unconditional love. A true story about how Rex survived high school and how it only takes one person to help transform another’s life.
The Paper Girl of Paris Alice digs through her grandmother’s apartment, following clues left in her grandmother’s will, to find out about family secrets locked away for more than 70 years. A story told in two voices, Alice’s and her grandmother’s.
The Dead and the Dark Snakebite, Oregon was a quite rural town until teens started to go missing and some even showed up dead. TV’s most popular ghost-hunters moved to town at the same time that the first teen went missing. Coincidence? Maybe. Then again, maybe not…
The Sacrifice The cast and crew from a Hollywood TV reality show decends onto an island in the Phillipines. Alon, a local teen, warns them repeatedly that they should not be there. When the crew disregards his warnings, danger strikes.
Beneath the Wide Silk Sky All Samantha Sakamoto wants to do is learn about photography and, encouraged by her white boyfriend, Beau, she secretly enters her work in a statewide contest with the hopes of winning the prize money to help her family. But with federal agents scouring the island and white townsfolk turning on … Read more
As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows Impossible choices – that’s what 17 year-old Salama Kassab has to make if she is to find safe passage on a refugee boat for her and her best friend. A powerful novel set during the Syrian Revolution that will have you wondering what you would do if you … Read more
Sugaring Off A tension-filled mystery/thriller about partially deaf teen, Owl, whose quiet refuge on her aunt and uncle’s maple syrup farm is unmoored with the arrival of Cody. Cody’s dark secrets slowly unravel as Owl grows closer to him, putting Owl into the crosshairs of dangerous people.
Anatomy Women in 1817 Scotland were barred from becoming surgeons, but that doesn’t stop Hazel Sinnett from training in secret. Dive into this utterly compelling page turner filled with mystery, romance and the occasional cadaver.