Loners & Outcasts - Teens Ficton

After Blaez returns to Guadalupe, Felan is left reeling.Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks, he can't stop thinking about his past; the endless abuse he suffered, the homeless man he killed, and all of the death and destruction he was complacent to. A long...

I was born a bastard at a county hospital. When most girls of sixteen were getting their driver licenses my mother was getting herself a baby. As a child I spent a lot of time in an orphanage called the Margaret Lloyd Stansel's Children's...

Alice and Cassie Arcane journey to the ends of the world into Hell to find their mother. They travel through Limbo, Purgatory and the realm of the faeries on a quest for their identity. All these places test their resolve while preparing them for...

The author celebrates 10 published titles and over 1000 poems. This collection is a compilation of the readers' and Mingeli's 10 favourite poems from each book, with some reconstructed in a way to fit the title 'Our Last Cigarette'.Author: Mingeli ISBN-10: 1776483324ISBN-13: 9781776483327Publisher: Independently...

"They'll kill you. That is what they do. Either you'll end up an undead charred corpse, else they will make you like them - a killer. Either-way the person you are will be gone."It is just another day in hell for John Tiber. If...

IN 1940 GERMAN sCIENTISTS WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY MIXED GENETIC MODIFCATION AND MAGIC IN EMBRYOS.TODAY THEY FOUND OUT! Born to a destiny she never wanted-a destiny that could change Earth as we know it. After six years in the California Child Protective...

Sometimes people must walk through fire.With Cash recovering from his injury, Teague and Zac have no other choice than to set out on their own. Luckily for them, the rest of their Nomad family lends their time and talents to the desperate search for...

It's been a long journey.The Nomads have remained a close knit family through happiness, sorrow, trauma, and forgiveness. With nothing more than their love and devotion for one another, they managed to survive the worst that the world could throw at them. Their bond...

At Marshall Academy, you're either part of the elite, living in luxury, or you're like eighteen-year-old Margo Adams, a transfer student on an Alumni Scholarship, from a part of town known as "felony flats."The only things that make the school tolerable are running, and...

Soulmates don't always have to be lovers. Two unlikely friends, bound by unspoken understanding, navigate the unpredictable terrain of college life and personal trauma. Aisha, an 18-year-old scholarship student, hides her struggles behind a bright smile and a love for learning-guitar, painting, skating-all while...

Welcome to the world of randomness. All the prompts that didn't fit in any of the other anthologies I created are in this beautiful book. Delve into the short stories that make Scattered Thinker, the Scattered Thinker Blog.Author: Skye BallantyneISBN-13: 9798483640943Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The story follows' Ese Benedict, a final year student of Royal palace high school, this story navigates around his school life and his personal life. It enumerates how he struggles to balance his school life, his family issues like how his dad views him...

She Vanished with the MoonA Novel by Riley CarterLuna always warned me not to get too close. She carried secrets like shadows, slipping in and out of my life like a ghost. Then, one night under the full moon, she was gone-no explanation, no...

At 16, life feels like a relentless struggle for Jenny Brown, a girl grappling with social anxiety, identity, and the pressure to fit in. As she stumbles through the final tormenting days of high school exams and a disastrous summer job, she finds herself...

The author celebrates 10 published titles and over 1000 poems. This collection is a compilation of the readers' and Mingeli's 10 favourite poems from each book, with some reconstructed in a way to fit the title 'Our Last Cigarette'.Author: MingeliISBN-13: 9798224559046Publisher: MingeliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2024Pages:...

Candy MacCann, party animal! Said no one. Ever. Still, when one of Candy's wealthiest classmates throws her annual Christmas party it's just too good an invitation to pass up. Ivy's guests are ready to paint the town red (and green!), and there's sure to...

A deserted cabin... a mysterious stranger... a fading memory... a girl alone... Time keeps shifting, but will Grace be enough to save herself? "There had been some kind of accident, Grace thought suddenly. She didn't know how she knew that, but she did. She...

Life is a struggle when you're eighteen. Greg Madison is like so many teenagers, desperately trying to fit in and find out who he is. Navigating the world of high school like the minefield that it is requires perseverance, confidence, and a little bit...

Future JapanA clue to a secret portal world.The only hope for Lotus, an Altered girl with the gift of Healing, on the run from the mafia...Sixteen-year-old Lotus was once fascinated by the portal legend her dad used to tell: of a world where people...

Could a life-changing adventure be waiting at a newschool? Twelve-year-old students Luke and Cleo arestruggling with their own problems as they start their firstyear at Chronos Academy-a unique science school thatis steeped in history and mystery. While Cleo is excitedfor a fresh start at...

The Painted Desert is a poignant, often darkly humorous coming-of-age novel told through the fierce and unforgettable voice of nine-year-old Lulu. A gifted dancer, self-taught technologist, and reluctant observer of adult dysfunction, Lulu lives with her emotionally wounded mother in a decaying Victorian home...

No One Survives the House Twice ... In his eighteen years, Johari Hightower saw more jail time than the guards. But after saving a toddler on the courthouse steps, New Earth's Supreme Council had to free him. Within hours of his release, he's kidnapped,...

Jessie Watson is a senior in high school who has spent the majority of her life in foster care. Just months before she ages out of the system, she meets Kaleb Scott, who claims to be an invisible watcher from another realm that exists...

The Apocalypse Called. It Wants a Do Over.Seventeen-year-old Corey Walker was fully prepared to die. An asteroid the size of Texas-Perses-was supposed to wipe out everything. No college apps, no student loans, no awkward graduation speeches. Just... boom.Then the last-minute save actually works. Earth...

This book is filled with stories of good and evil and love and war, but beware! Readers have reported losing themselves within the pages of this book. Be careful, for your life will change in ways that are most extraordinary and unanticipated! Jake reads...

The formula is always the same . . . Tragic Backstory + Accidental Power + Symbolic Costume + Moral Test = Transformation . . . the outcome is not. High schooler Jack Shaw never asked for greatness.He never asked for his uncle's comic book...

15-year-old Destiny Willbury is raised in a dogmatic family and church. When her parents discover that she is bisexual, they subject her to conversion therapy and then kick her out of their house. Alone and scared she is rescued by three liberal college students....

Author: Maddy SolorioISBN-13: 9798215992968Publisher: Maddy SolorioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.32d

"Again Behold the Stars is thoughtfully crafted, cleverly told, and brimming with originality. With rich world building and vibrant characters, Latimer delivers a tale full of wit and whimsy that will whisk you away on an unforgettable adventure." -Allie Millington, NYT bestselling author of...

Cyrus Ahriman hates his life. He hates his parents. He isn't too fond of high school Queen Bee, Dawn Larkspur either. During the summer of 1993, he takes a job babysitting a five-year-old who is carrying secrets that are too heavy to bear. That...

Teens Who Thrive gives teenagers with ADHD (and the parents supporting them) what generic advice never provides: realistic stories they'll actually recognize, reflection exercises to understand their unique brain, and evidence-based strategies designed specifically for how ADHD brains work.INSIDE THIS BOOK: 12 Relatable Success...

Casey Cherry has been desperately following the disappearance of her little sister, Lexi, but after months with no answers or leads, Casey is visited by Lexi's ghost, who has no recollection of how she died. Now, Casey must make amends with her two estranged...

13-year-old Jack has pure white eyes and his two sisters - Emma and Holly - have rainbow-colored birthmarks that make them stand out as freaks in the small town of Lebanon, New Hampshire. But then Jack discovers a mysterious kaleidoscope that pulls the three...

The daughter of Appalachian snake handlers becomes a ward of the state after her eerie "gift" causes a tragedy that leaves her orphaned.Bram Stoker Nominee, Speak No Evil named #14 in Ginger Nuts of Horror's Top 100 YA Horror Novels of the Last Decade....

When a girl with a troubled history of finding dead bodies investigates the murder of her ex, she uncovers a plot to put herself -- and everyone she loves -- on the list of who's next.Flora Calhoun has a reputation for sticking her nose...

In The Broken Violin, Abigail Bosworth's life is drastically changed when her wealthy British family flees Philadelphia in 1769. Anti-British sentiment is growing, and the Revolutionary War will soon erupt. After Abigail's father closes his shipping business, they move to the Mohawk Valley in...

A land has fallen. An escape was made. It's a victory, but at what price?Shaleigh has made a terrible mistake, one she may not ever be able to fix. Lost and in a strange land with anger and death all around her, she must...

Some people are just weird. They don't fit in - not at school, not at home, not with other kids no matter how hard they try. In the age of dwarves and dragons, outcasts end up as slaves, thieves, or worse. For the ones...

The voices haunt Amberly-or rather, they nag her, a constant, invisible stream of criticism keeping her company while she survives a boarding school where none but a few teachers like her. A good thing the milky-teal river at the edge of the school also...

The day that Anderson brought a gun to school was the day Aly's life changed forever. Her fellow classmates were murdered right before her eyes as her former best friend embarked on the deadliest high school massacre since Columbine. Now, nearly two years later,...

SEMI-FINALIST for Booklife Prize in FictionThe StoryAs a child, Billy believed in black holes and time travel. Now, in his thirties, Billy is the reclusive creator of a popular comic book. On the eve of its final edition, Billy's behavior grows erratic as he...

Seventeen-year-old Julius Monroe hates his life. He hides the truth of his father's abuse with careful lies and a kick-ass jacket that keeps everyone at bay. But Julius' careful facade crumbles after a run-in with the school administration puts him on a collision course...

Sixteen year old Tori barely exists. She hates her mom and hates going to school. She has been bullied since grade school. Tori doesn't fit in her high school, she isn't like the rest of the girls with their short skirts and flirty tops....

Just when Valor McRaven and his sister, Doomsy Gloomsy, are minutes from becoming apprentices of magic at Mystic Steeples, their parents snatch them away in an escape from the sanatorium with two nutty Nizzertits they have befriended.Valor and Doomsy find themselves fleeing Hoopenfangia all...

Fifteen-year-old Kori is an outcast in both her family and her school. Her only friends are her pets-birds, cats, a dog, and a horse. After her parents and brother tragically die, she and her younger sister Sera are sent from their rural home to...

Prepare to Be UneasySometimes you want to be a hero so badly, you become a villain instead. Focal Points, a YA anthology with the theme of perspective, bends convention with six wildly different stories by teen authors ages fourteen to seventeen. Part of the...

Author: Ardan QuinnISBN-13: 9798995192503Publisher: Milk Beans PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2026Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.66d

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the enchanting childhood classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says she is the most...

Fifteen-year-old Katey Dade knows her school's corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It's all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Each school day,...

Kevin's acne is horribly, hideously bad. Can a risky treatment fix his face -- and his entire life? A witty and sharply observed debut. Fifteen-year-old Kevin has acne, and not just any acne. Stinging red welts, painful pustules, and massive whiteheads are ruining his...