New Wind Publishing: 12 books
Detour For Emmy
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that...
by Anara Guard
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns, a choice is made, a promise kept or broken. With vivid and precise details, these quiet tales introduce you to characters whose inner lives are both troubled and eloquent. You smell the permeating odors in a rundown...
If You Loved Me
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
At 15, Lauren Riley promised herself that she would not mess up her life and would stay away from drugs and sex. But two years later, her boyfriend Tyler is pressuring her to forget that promise. Both her parents are lost to her through long-time drug addiction, but through her writing, Lauren tries...
Love Rules
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This young adult novel accurately portrays the widespread effects of a young lesbian's decision to come out of the closet and live openly and honestly while still in high school. The story line revolves around Kit Dandridge-a young lesbian struggling to be herself in a repressive environment-her best...
by Anara Guard
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
A short story of an encounter between a realtor and a bear, who is searching for a mountain home. Everything seems benign at first, until the bear becomes insulted and loses his temper.
But What About Me?
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Grade 9 and up. This sensitively written problem novel deals with a young woman's struggle to stay true to her own goals and values while trying to save her boyfriend from himself. Erica Arrendondo, 18, is an excellent student who volunteers at the Humane Society, plays volleyball, and desperately...
No More Sad Goodbyes
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Autumn's life is nearly perfect-she's a top volleyball player and student, has close friends, and a father and grandmother who are raising her with an abundance of love, laughter, and common sense. If only Autumn weren't pregnant. If only she'd skipped Jason's celebratory champagne on his 18th birthday....
Telling
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
At the age of twelve, Cassie is old enough to babysit. But when the father of two children for whom she babysits fondles her, Cassie is too confused and embarrassed to know what to do. She becomes more and more frightened as he continues to aggressively molest her. At last, she tells her teenage cousin,...
Beyond Dreams
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Six short stories about teens in crisis are presented with alternate male and female narrators. Story lines include such young adult concerns as teen pregnancy, abortion, abusive partners, racism, failing at school, a fatal auto accident after a party where alcohol was served, and coping with family obligations to care for an aging relative.
Too Soon for Jeff
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Jeff Browning is a talented high school debater who stands a solid chance of winning a scholarship to the college of his dreams. But Christy, his girlfriend, announces that she is pregnant and she will neither have an abortion nor give the baby up for adoption. Jeff is forced to deal with the consequences...
Shut Up
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
When their mother is called to Iraq with her National Guard Unit, 17-year-old Mario Barajas and his 10-year-old brother, Eddie, move in with their Aunt Carmen. Eddie, hungry for the love of a father, happily soaks up the attention their aunt's boyfriend, Denton, freely gives. Mario is caught up with...
Baby Help
True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High, #6
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Melissa doesn't consider herself abused - Rudy only hits her occasionally when he's drinking - until she realizes the effect his abuse is having on their child. She finally leaves Rudy, and she and Cheyenne go to the shelter for battered women. As difficulties with group living arise, however, she...