Young Adult (YA) Fiction

Some Must Die

Some Must Die

Angiedcomer Angiedcomer

SOME MUST DIE is a mystery thriller crime story of survival that explores the theme of how far a person can go when pushed to their limits. The book leaves the reader questioning what they would do in the same style="margin-left:0px;">There are three main characters. Fifteen year old, Chris Finch who plans a deadly act of revenge against his abuser. Twelve year old, Leslie who is kidnapped for unknown reasons. Then twelve year old Samantha, who on a family trip and sees the missing child poster of Leslie at a rest area. This influences the course of her life moving style="margin-left:0px;">My novel is character-driven, with emotional characters, explorations of friendships and toxic It is...
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Sleeping with the Blackbirds

Sleeping with the Blackbirds

Alex Pearl Alex Pearl

Eleven-year-old schoolboy, Roy Nuttersley has been dealt a pretty raw deal. While hideous parents show him precious little in the way of love and affection, school bullies make his life a misery. So Roy takes comfort in looking after the birds in his garden, and in return the birds hatch a series of ambitious schemes to protect their new friend. As with the best-laid plans, however, these get blown completely off course - and as a result the lives of both Roy and his arch tormentor, Harry Hodges are turned upside down - but in a surprisingly good style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">"Wonderful images and thought-provoking scenes." - Bramwell Tovey, c...
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A Deserted land

A Deserted land

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In the heart of a desolate land lies a story of pain, survival, and style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Meet Zina, a 19-year-old Muslim girl whose life has been anything but ordinary. Trapped in a world of mental torment and emotional abuse, Zina's mind is a fractured puzzle, with pieces scattered across the barren landscape of her memory. Each day, she battles the shadows of her past, feeling the weight of a life she can barely style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">But in the midst of this darkness, something extraordinary begins to unfold. As Zina embarks on a journey through the deserted corners of her sou...
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Two Sides Of The Coin

Two Sides Of The Coin

Carla D E Godfrey Carla D E Godfrey

He's a serious, everyday workaholic

HE'S a carefree live-for-life guy

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The Friend

The Friend

Carla D E Godfrey Carla D E Godfrey

On the cusp of her eightieth birthday and in residential care - former, intimidating piano teacher Ms Mary Rutledge has very little to look forward to - until she meets thirty year old pianist James Richards . He's handsome and understands music as well as she a chance encounter develops a romantic friendship that will stay with now:

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The Crystal Clipper

The Crystal Clipper

Barbara Roman Barbara Roman

“The Crystal Clipper” is the fairy Tale adventure, for this is how we all begin to deal with life - by daydreaming fantastic ways to deal with life’s problems. For David, the princess imprisoned in the tower, the monsters, the deceptions and Temptations in the Prism Palace represent the conflicts and fears of everyday style="color:windowtext;"> David Nickerson begins his fantastic journeys as a boy trying to cope with a series of family crises:  his Father’s unemployment, his sister’s paralysis, the death of his mother, and his deafness after a serious style="text-align:justify;">   When David acquires a sacred Singer crystal, he conjures up the supernaturally...
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ADULTS, AND HOW TO SURVIVE THEM

ADULTS, AND HOW TO SURVIVE THEM

Jeannie Mackenzie Jeannie Mackenzie

Fifteen year old Danny is frustrated by his Dad having an affair with his PE teacher, worried about his Mum's drinking and scared of the bullies. If that wasn't bad enough, his grandfather, usually so reliable, has started behaving badly.  Will he survive the summer holidays?  Will he ever get a girlfriend?

Read on and come to admire how Danny manages it all, including attracting the interest of Ava, the coolest girl in paced, funny and heart warming.  

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The 3-Dimensional Boy

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The 3-Dimensional Boy

Ian E. Hart Ian E. Hart

What if there was a 3D printer that could copy a living human being? Tom Chan’s father is building one in his laboratory at Coolabah University. 14 year old Tom and his neighbour Bethany ‘Biff’ Piechorowski take shelter in the lab from a thunderstorm and accidentally print a copy of Tom: a dopplegänger with no personality and no memory. They try to pass him off as ‘Baker,’ Tom’s long-lost twin from China. But there are dark forces at work who want human clones for sinister reasons and they kidnap Baker in order to perfect their Human Replicator. Rescuing Baker leads Biff, Tom and their friends on a wild pursuit through the labyrinth of WW2 tunnels beneath Coolabah City, unearthi...
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To Outwit the Fate

To Outwit the Fate

KEAdamus KEAdamus

What would you do in such situation: a young student is struck by a series of unfortunate events and turns to an elderly woman for sponsorship. Suddenly she got murdered. You would probably call the police, don't you?He does something different and resorts to a dangerous ploy to keep her pension. His only ally in these surreal events is a female student suffering from mythomania. Together they try to solve a mystery, and become independent style="color:hsl(0, 0%, 0%);">This gripping tale of deception and survival promises to take you on a thrilling ride. The book won a few awards at film festivals in a book style="background-color:hsl(0, 0%, 100%);color:rgb(42,42,42);font-size:18px;">A Kaf...
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The Manticore: The Head of the Gorgon

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The Manticore: The Head of the Gorgon

Nicolas Harrison Nicolas Harrison

Friday Walker lives a simple life in Washington DC with his guardian Donna and her friend Krystal.

Unfortunately, fate throws him into New Hellas, a world where Graeco-Roman myths and legends are true.

In this new world, which is distrustful of those from the Iron-World" like him, the only way he can return home is to embark on a dangerous quest across an unfamiliar landscape filled with gods and monsters.

He is accompanied by a clay-born girl and a dangerous but majestic manticore. However, unknown to them, something greater is lurking in the shadows that can destroy both their worlds.

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The Centipedes

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The Centipedes

Piyush Srivastava Piyush Srivastava

 Fiction: The CentipedesAuthor: Piyush SrivastavaSome stories never leave you, so is the case with The Centipedes, once you read it. It is an alarming narration of the transformation of a family from innocent hand workers to cunning head spinners. It is beyond the imagination of a common man how far a bad man can go. How a father, whose daughter was gang-raped and killed, becomes so greedy that he insults the real life memories of our heroes, underestimates the sacrifice of Neerja style="margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;">It is a fiction with so much real things around that I remained restless for a few days after reading it. The varied experience of the author is there in the fictio...
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The Renascent World

The Renascent World

Carryn W. Kerr Carryn W. Kerr

Sixteen-year-old Cassidy's world crumbles in style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:16px;"> A utopian sphere orbiting a ruined Earth, Petriville was meant to be humanity's salvation. But Gina, the iron-fisted founder with a twisted agenda, assigns Cassidy a preordained future as a breeder. Cassidy yearns for more. A forbidden connection with a captivating hologram, Eric, ignites a rebellion. Eric unveils Gina's sinister plan, forcing Cassidy to choose between conformity and a daring fight for love, freedom, and the future of

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Cherry Popsicle Day

Cherry Popsicle Day

Ali Anthony Bell Ali Anthony Bell

Teen, Young Adult, or Adult FictionSynopsis: a man is beaten to death by three prison guards on the 15th anniversary of the day he met the one love of his life. He had written a letter to his lover with a poem, and an investigative reporter finds the woman and sends her the letter…we go back to the beginning and relive their story in the woman’s is a short story inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa Clara County Correctional Facility, CA USAIt was written one chapter per week in August 2020, following 3 consecutive short story prompts from Reedsy’s weekly short story contest, without knowing what the prompts were going to...
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The Light Beneath

The Light Beneath

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Duncan Ray has just moved to Viridis Island, a mysterious town that is the subject of many strange rumors. Its residents believe that it is cursed, and the rain that never stops pouring over the island seems to be proof enough. While Duncan is eager to be involved in a mystery like in the books he loves, he quickly learns that this small island town might harbor some even more sinister secrets, and some of the residents are desperate to keep him from uncovering Rowan Hasson deals with the loss of her family after a mysterious fire burns down their home. She is haunted by the idea that the island's curse might have played a part. Now she must learn the secrets of Viridis Island while trying ...
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