Signs in the Dark by Susan Miura
Summary: ONE CAPTIVE. Blindfolded, gagged, and bound, 17-year-old Haylie Summers has only one goal: stay alive. Nothing about her abduction makes sense. Deaf since birth, she can’t hear her captors and can only guess why they would take her. Is she about to be thrown into the dark abyss of human...
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Book Review: Be: The Journey of Rol by Ric Colegrove
Summary: In a time and place different than our own, a fourteen-year-old boy named Rol sets out on a journey, alone. He faces incredible challenges and makes lifelong friends. Rol learns what it takes to be who he is truly meant to be, with help from those he encounters along the way. Be: The Journey...
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Book Review – A Tragic Introduction
A Tragic Introduction Scott McCully Espionage Adventure by Jessica C. Joiner Summary: Eighteen year old Scott McCully finds himself drawn into the dangerous world of espionage as he seeks the truth about his parents’ deaths. When Scott’s parents fail to show up for his football game – again – he’s...
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Book Review – Treasures
CatholicTeenBooks recently released their third anthology Treasures: Visible & Invisible. As is the case with all the short story collections, this book gives readers a chance to meet several different authors and their writing styles. All the stories in Treasures are linked through a fictional relic of Saint Patrick. The book begins with...
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Book Review – Guarding Aaron
Guarding Aaron by T.M. Gaouette Summary: The world continues to press in on Gabriel Livingstone’s quiet life when fifteen-year-old Aaron Buckley enters Yeung’s Martial Arts Studio looking to learn kung-fu. Gabriel knows there’s a desperate secret behind the boy’s bruises, and secretly vows to be his guard, with the help of his friend Christian. But...
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Book Review – Violet
Violet by Renee Lichtenhan Summary: Thirteen-year-old Violet Windsor is obsessed with the rush and thrill of skateboarding through a dangerous, gang-ridden part of New York City. Certain that her high-society parents wouldn’t approve of the rough-and-tumble sport or the sketchy neighborhood, she and her best friend, Sloane, hide her secret adventures in a thick veil...
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Book Review – Escape
Summary: “I’d never seen a dead body before, but I was pretty sure the guy in the car trunk was dead.” Middle school’s tough, and Tyler Higgins just wants to hang with the cool kids. But Dustin’s idea of quality entertainment is spying on parked cars on Lover’s Lane. When two creeps show up...
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Book Review – There You’ll Find Me
Summary: Grief brought Finley Sinclair to Ireland. Love will lead her home. Soon to be a major motion picture! Finley Sinclair is not your typical eighteen-year-old. She’s witty, tough, talented, and driven. With an upcoming interview at the Manhattan music conservatory, Finley needs to finish composing her audition piece. But her creativity disappeared with the death of...
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Book Review – Perilous Days
Perilous Days by Kathryn Griffin Swegart Summary: Winner of the Catholic Writer’s Guild Seal of Approval Award! As this unforgettable adventure story begins, the quiet life of this peaceful Catholic family is thrown into turmoil by the start of World War II. A Nazi soldier knocks on the door of the farmhouse where teenager...
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Book Review – Carabelle
Carabelle by Renee Lichtenhan Summary: Twelve-year-old Carabelle can’t wait to spend the summer with her best friend, Gracie, swimming all day and watching movies all night. While Carabelle’s single mom works, the pair of BFFs dive into their adventures. But when a tragic accident tears Carabelle from her home and everyone she loves, she no...
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