Loners & Outcasts - Teens Ficton

Sixteen-year-old Aarav isn't failing at life.His grades are fine.His friends are fine.Home is fine.So why does everything suddenly feel heavier than it should?Between classrooms, football games, unfinished conversations, family expectations, and the growing pressure of the future, Aarav begins drifting through days that no...

Mercury's first collection of poems are from all throughout her life from 7th-11th grade. They represent all the late nights she spent up crying, overthinking, and writing. She wrote all of these poems on her phone, for she could never find a pen filled...

A fantasy adventure following a young boy named Eryn Ridge who has recently turned eighteen. Eryn now needs to leave his village to visit the hexmaster. He will have to go through three places before he reaches the tower including the Enchanted Orchard, Dragon...

The Damned Heart of StoneSomething is waking.On the night of Bobo's sixth birthday, what should have been a simple celebration becomes the beginning of something far older-and far more dangerous-than anyone realizes.Will Savage is changing.The music is changing.And the line between man and myth...

The River Runner is a coming-of-age novel about a solitary high school boy who finds direction, discipline, and belonging not through people, but through the wild. Abandoned early by distracted parents and drifting through school unseen, Jesse Calloway stumbles upon an old trapping book...

One girl seeking a home. One leader hiding a secret. One choice that will change Oak Ridge forever. Callie Gardner is done running, but the walls of Grace Community Church feel more like a fortress than a sanctuary. After her family cut her off...

Sixteen-year-old Leo is a high school junior living in Oahu, Hawaii. His entire life he has been viewed as an outcast due to his preference to stay inside and write stories all day instead of going out and making friends. Eventually, he begins to...

Jinx & the Locket is a tender, clear-eyed coming-of-age story about fear, truth, and the courage it takes to let go of the stories that once kept us safe.Ten-year-old Jordan "Jinx" Harris has always been good at noticing things-a little too good, according to...

Penelope is a girl who is different. Animals talk to her. Trees sing to her. And she can see and feel things that you and I cannot.As a middle schooler, different is not allowed. The only person that truly accepts her for who she...

Nix has spent her life feeling like she doesn't quite belong.When an old book reveals a connection to a hidden world of dangerous magic and the mysterious Wood, Nix questions everything she thought she knew about her life. The strange bond she shares with...

Natalie Mosley Klenotic dives back into her family's dysfunction once again, but this time it centers on the narcissistic origin story of her father, Frank. This book connects the authors previous memoirs together, due to being a prequel. It is a tale of trauma...

Dyrk Isn't your typical teenage boy for he has a deep dark secret he just found out about himselfAuthor: Jake RavnerISBN-13: 9798246931783Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2026Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

To my dearest boy, the one whose scent first filled my world with wonder and whose laughter became the sweetest music to my ears. This story is a reflection of the countless moments we've shared, from the wobbly first steps of a puppy to...

An Omnipotent Madman, A Delinquent with Peculiar Eyes, A World Hanging By A Thread ... Savvy street punk and part-time saboteur, Johari Hightower, survived the terrifying rite of the House. Then the deadly City. But New Earth's shadow world is a whole other beast....

Nebula is your not-so-normal kind of gal; her story isn't the prettiest; however, she embarks on a lesson of a lifetimefinding what "true value" is in her own life, oblivious at first, she begins taking notice when her friend Emmanuel piques her curiosity, and...

Fourteen-year-old Jada's world shatters the night CPS tears her family apart, scattering her and her siblings across Chicago with no promise they'll ever see each other again.Thrown into Aunt Pauline's house, Jada quickly learns the rules: stay quiet, stay useful, stay out of the...

On September 1, 2025, I encountered a black cat.That night changed everything-drawing me into the world of a mysterious girl.The eastern vampire girl.Author: Water WildISBN-13: 9798277781395Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2025Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Asude is a girl abandoned by her mother at a young age. She grows up in an orphanage and experiences many terrible things during her time there. Chief among these experiences is her best friend, Mine. After Mine, Asude trusted no one. Years later,...

What if the thing that makes you different is exactly what your world needs?Ceph is born with an oversized head that makes him the target of endless teasing and ridicule in his ant colony. Too clumsy to forage, too awkward to fit in, he's...

Maggie ScratchAges 12 and up. For readers who love edgy, reflective, coming of age stories, set off the grid in the seventies on the island of Ibiza with Maggie's clueless humor warding off loneliness and longing. Maggie Scratch is the real thing...based on the...

When Alex and his best friend Jake set out for the adventure of a lifetime-a carefree road trip down the coast-they never expect to end up stranded in the sleepy seaside town of Seabreeze. With their van broken and their funds gone, they find...

She was born of light, trained in shadow, and called to blood.Sabine buries the last member of her coven beneath the snow-covered woods, but Hattie's death does more than leave her alone. It unleashes the final threads of bound magic inside her. Raw, volatile,...

In a world where the last remnants of magic reside in the ruins of a fading realm, Alaric, the last dragon of Brimstone Mountain, soars through a sky tinted with sorrowful hues. Once a majestic creature draped in scales that sparkled like the finest...

Shane Conliffe is starting his final year of high school, but academics are the last thing on his mind. Following the events of the summer, including the aftermath of the 2044 presidential debates, his life has been turned upside down. Where there was once...

BLUE - Words of Pain. Blue is about a teenage girl, Ruby Wilson, who suffers in silence. She bears the torture from the people around her. She deals with past trauma and tries to find her way out of this mess. Does she find...

bourne identity vampire edition: a beautiful vampire boy, who can't recall anything of his past, shows up in her window, every night. and maybe even builds her a shrine. but she won't let him in.because she knows that the day she lets him in...

"Callie's Revenge: Rising from the Shadows" is an inspiring and heartwarming tale of a teenage girl's journey from victim to hero. Callie, once the target of relentless bullying by the notorious "Karens for Life," decides to take matters into her own hands. What starts...

Their story isn't over yet. Summer break has come to an end, and big life changes await. Kendra thinks starting fresh in a new city is the right move. Alex decides it's time to tackle the anxiety churning inside him. Rosie struggles to make...

As Jack falls head over heels in love with the timid Carolina, they begin what for him feels like the love of a lifetime. During a trip to Costa Rica, they are being led to a nearly untouched Mayan ruin, where Jack finds a...

"A meandering read which perfectly portrays the solipsism of youth." - Kirkus Reviews A restless 19-year-old Pennsylvania boy, hiding a painful past and unsure of what lies beyond the horizon, takes a wayward backpacking journey across Europe and meets a beautiful Irish girl with...

Hechicero 'The Legend Begins' is the first installment of the Hechicero Trilogy. It is about a young Texas man named Angel whose bride Elizabeth is murdered by his rival and half-brother Raven. While Raven is busy forming a criminal enterprise and engaging with dark...

Explore the mysteries of New Orleans' French Quarter during Mardi Gras, through the eyes of three seventh graders as they search to reconnect with their parents and avoid a nasty set of bad guys. Left alone and homeless in Haiti, Jean Benoit is sent...

From award-winning young adult author Amra Pajalic comes a best friends love triangle, zero to hero makeover, found family, coming of age YA novel for fans of Melina Marchetta and John Green. Jesse's childhood took a backseat as he became his ailing mother's primary...

Escape the judgement before it's too late with these unique spiritual poems, while stretching your imagination beyond the confines of that lonely room or dull office that keeps you pondering over a boring mundane existence. Have you ever wondered why poetry is such an...

St. Claire has given up the dealing and the one-night stands; he's renounced violence, dropped out of sight and moved up the coast. He's living like a hermit, trying to be a good man again. Kaska lives in a hope-free, dead-end town where the...

Author: Scottie HowellISBN-13: 9798192174944Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2026Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d

When a murder of crows begins wreaking havoc on a small town, a girl with OCD must come to terms with what it means to be a "good" person in order to stop the crows from enacting the worst of her intrusive thoughts, in...

Schitt's Creek meets Vice Principals. The Inbetweeners move to Texas. The hilarious novel of being part of something you want no part of."I don't suppose you have a dog, do you, Paul?""I did once," answered Mr. Matthew. "Although not mine, but my first wife's....

Author: Casey MouallemISBN-10: 1312795077ISBN-13: 9781312795075Publisher: Lulu PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

Call My Name Ruby Lane is a typical girl of seventeen, who is crazy for boys, clothes, and friends, and though she may not act like it, she wants to do what's best for her family. She continually does whatever she can at church...

Bastion City is in chaos, and no one knows if the new arrivals are friend or foe. What will become of their escape plan, and will they get to Chace in time? With the weight of expectation riding on Nyx's shoulders, the stakes have...

With high school now behind him, Shane Conliffe has it in mind to devote himself full time to the cause of the AURORA organization, and to finally get down to the bottom of what has been amiss since he and his peers joined the...

DOES POWER SHAPE THE USER, OR DOES THE USER SHAPE THE POWEREscaping Araxis and his Balandran forces has trapped Kaphri and the Geffitzi warriors in the South. For the warriors, the return to empty holds and caers while their people battle for survival in...

In The Crimson Path of Honor, the Civil War is over, and a violent period known as the Indian Wars is erupting. Ignoring the danger, a feisty young woman from Boston rebels against her tyrannical father's plans to marry her off to a family...

After the death of her best friend, Evie Leigh seeks solace in an online role-playing game. In the game, she finds purpose, community, and even romance. But online life alone can't sustain her, and the farther she pushes herself away from reality, the harder...

Arrested for trespassing, sixteen-year-old Sin finds herself trapped in the Hangar, a brutal reflection zone for rebellious girls. What the president calls an opportunity for redemption is nothing like its promotional videos. Inside, there are no rules-only a ruthless hierarchy led by long-term inmates....

City born and bred, Hart Stewart possesses the gift of psychometry-the psychic ability to discover facts about an event or person by touching inanimate objects associated with them. Since his mother's death, seventeen-year-old Hart has endured homelessness, and has learned ways to keep his...

In "Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin," we follow the journey of Lucas Ramirez, a teenager who is struggling to find his place in a world that seems to misunderstand him. Born with autism and dealing with poverty, prejudice, and trauma, Lucas feels like...

Trapped.Set in Central Florida, Broken tells the story of Riley Barrie, a high school senior, living within the confines of her survivalist father's chain-link fence. Riley battles both the effects war has had on her father and the harassment of the bullies who plague...

For the first printing only! This paperback features sprayed stenciled edges while the special edition supply lasts. A New York Times bestseller! The path of destiny burns with love, magic, and betrayal in this "sultry, explosive" (Kirkus Reviews) second book in the City of...