Female Protagonist

A Spring 2009 Children's Indie Next List Pick for Teens!  In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love... [read more]

"Let's buy you some boobs," she said. Thanks to a freakish act of generosity on the part of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Teresa Tolliver is starting tenth grade with a brand-new bra—and... [read more]

"Vibrant and potent, YA readers searching for faerie stories will be happy to find this accomplished debut novel."--Publishers Weekly(starred review) Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully... [read more]

"Into the Wildewood, Gillian Summers’ second book in The Faire Folk Trilogy, brings a fresh perspective to the genre with a crackerjack plot and razor sharp writing."--ForeWord Magazine After... [read more]

"Spollen interweaves elemental, evocative images of what is formless and boundless—water, air, grief, death—with what is solid and limited-earth, objects, human love and forgiveness. This... [read more]

What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent...Especially when you're responsible for a kid.It just figures that fifteen-year old Victoria's dad... [read more]

Boys + Love = Trouble   Right?  Staying on track at school means a boy-free equation for Rhonda Lee, who spends most evenings doing homework and eating Chinese takeout with her dad.... [read more]

Brought up in a strict fundamentalist home, eighteen-year-old Grace feels trapped in a “suburban Alcatraz” by her overbearing father and her timid mother. An affair with a college... [read more]

When 14 year-old Cassie Sullivan-smart, sensitive, and perceptive-stands up for her beliefs, the flagpole Christian majority decides she's the school Antichrist.  Cassie had no idea... [read more]

When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood is forced to leave her beloved California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival in Colorado. After arriving, Keelie finds... [read more]

In Dan Brown’s novel The Lost Symbol, Freemasons are portrayed as a mysterious group of conspirators who have been secretly ruling America from its very creation. Of course, we have to remember that this is a fictional book, which uses certain elements of truth in a creative way in order to develop the storyline of the novel. Freemasonry is a... read this article