Engaging young adult fiction & teen adventure stories. Free coming-of-age tales with romance, friendship & self-discovery.
A coastal town’s polite silence fractures when 17‑year‑old June finds her grandmother’s tin of unsent letters. As she and friends publish the archive, a long‑buried disappearance and the names that protected it surface, forcing a community to reckon with memory, loyalty, and the cost of keeping quiet.
June Harlow finds a peculiar blank journal that makes written lines come true. As she uses it to mend fractures after her sister’s death, memories begin to fray for others. When the cost becomes clear, she confesses, faces the fallout, and tries to rebuild truth by human work rather than quick fixes.
A community radio volunteer unearths archived tapes tying a powerful developer to past land deals. As broadcasts stir the neighborhood, stolen evidence, legal threats, and moral dilemmas force her to choose how to use a voice that can reshape her town.
When his grandmother disappears at the forbidden third tidepool, nineteen-year-old Kai dives into a hidden glass city beneath the cove. Guided by a sea-glass whistle, a retired micro-sub, and his own hands, he faces a living current that trades on memory to bring Elena home—and decides what he’ll shape next.
When Marin Hale’s name vanishes from the Wheel of Naming, the harbor city unmoors her identity. She follows a silver thread into a hidden market and the Registry’s glass Archive, bargaining memories and coaxing lost syllables back into being. A tale of small trades, stubborn courage, and naming what belongs to us.
Nineteen-year-old rooftop beekeeper Tamsin guards jars of memory-infused honey in a storm-bent coastal city. When a corporation steals her grandmother’s sweetest summer, she descends into flooded tunnels to reclaim it, aided by a mentor, a hacker friend, and a gull-like drone—sparking a citywide reckoning.
Nineteen-year-old Kaito, a glassblower’s apprentice in a storm-bitten harbor town, discovers his work can hold the sea’s voice. With friends, a retired ROV, and a jar of glowing plankton, he challenges a corporate barrier project, retrieves a lost bell, and tunes glass and wind to save both town and whales.
When 19-year-old Isla Reyes hears her missing brother’s harmonica echo through an old lighthouse radio, it draws her into a hidden network beneath a Maine harbor. With a retired acoustician and a scrappy intern, she exposes a corporate scheme and finds a new way to listen—to the sea, to grief, and to herself.
Nineteen-year-old freediver Nova fights to save her island’s resonant shelf and its visiting whales from a corporate survey. With a retired acoustics engineer as mentor and a callpipe built by her late father, Nova dives the headland’s hidden pass, outwits a salvage chief, and brings home proof—turning her town into guardians.
A young sound archivist discovers the city's lull has been erased. With a thread that hears and a ragged choir of allies, she confronts a corporation harvesting memories. A Young Adult urban tale about listening, theft, and weaving public sound back into life.
On floating isles held aloft by captured sunlight, a young glasssmith named Noor follows the theft of her island's keystone prism into the heart of a hoarding Tower. She must trade memories and craft a machine's song to return the light and remake stewardship across the archipelago.
Ari, a young apprentice clockmaker, must reclaim the stolen crystalline heart of her town's lighthouse. She pieces together maps, tools and alliances, confronts a consortium that would commodify the sea, and learns what it takes to keep a community's light burning.
In the cliffed city of Hollowfall, living lamps hold people's memories. When one lamp is stolen and a machine begins siphoning light, twenty-year-old Maya must leave the quay, learn to listen, and fight a collector who would cage moments. A coming-of-age tale about repair, choice, and what we keep.
In a floating city held aloft by a bioluminal Lantern, a careful twenty-year-old apprentice must track down a stolen 'heart' and confront a syndicate that would sell light. With a gifted device and loyal companions, he learns that repair is a communal choice.
Nineteen-year-old Maya interns at an Arctic acoustics lab and discovers a humming corridor beneath the ice that whales use to brace the pack. As a mining rig’s tests threaten it, she, her team, and an elder’s gifts risk a covert counter-song to turn the rig into a resonator, protect the labyrinth, and win recognition for a fragile sanctuary.
