Young Adult & Cross-Over Fiction Books

Stories of identity, history, and becoming.

Our Young Adult and Crossover titles are written for readers who are beginning to ask deeper questions—about who they are, where they come from, and how the world shapes them. These stories blend history, myth, and imagination to explore themes of resilience, justice, memory, and self-discovery. Many of these novels reimagine classic myths or fairy tales within real historical moments, creating powerful connections between past and present. They are written for young adults but resonate strongly with adult readers who appreciate layered storytelling, emotional depth, and meaningful reflection.

Readers will find:

Strong, complex protagonists

Historical and cultural grounding

Themes of courage, resistance, and identity

Stories that linger long after the final page

These books are ideal for classrooms, book clubs, and readers who love stories that challenge, inspire, and endure.

Meet Our Young Adult Fiction Books

Who We Are: Heroes & Bullies

A quiet, reflective story about grief, courage, and discovering who you are becoming. Told through memory, loss, and the small moments that shape us, Who We Are follows a young girl navigating life after loss, learning to find strength in family, tradition, and the stories we carry with us. Tender and deeply human, this book explores identity, resilience, and the love that stays with us long after someone is gone. A thoughtful, emotionally rich story about growing up, remembering, and finding your place in the world.

Themes: Grief • Identity • Family legacy • Emotional resilience
Best for: Older children, tweens, and reflective readers

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Meet the World of Woven War Fairytales

What if the stories we loved as children were born on battlefields?

In these pages, princesses trade ballrooms for burned fields.
Lost boys walk trenches, not Neverland.
Threads become sutures.
Lanterns become lifelines.
And mercy becomes the most radical magic of all. Based on real history and the lives too often forgotten, each book retells a familiar fairy tale from the trenches of war—where the bravest heroes were never remembered.

Step into stories where:
✨ girls lead armies of mercy
✨ secrets are carried by moonlight
✨ and the smallest kindness can save a life

No crowns.
No spells.
Just courage.

The Weaver and the Wolf: A Rewoven Fairy Tale of Little Red Riding Hood

Scotland, 1700s.
In the Scottish Borders, a village survives on thread and on silence.

Rowan MacRae is a loom girl raised by her grandmother, Elspeth, a weaver whose hands hold more than cloth. In Greythosn, women learn early that there are truths you do not speak aloud: who watches, who takes, and who disappears. When accusations of witchcraft begin to spread through the village, silence becomes dangerous, and remembering becomes an act of defiance.

As women are taken and erased by church and court alike, Rowan discovers that the loom itself holds a hidden language. Patterns stitched into hems and seams carry warnings, names, escape routes, and testimonies; messages passed quietly from woman to woman when speaking could mean death.

What begins as survival becomes resistance.

What begins as one girl becomes a network.

Companion to The Blame: A Hidden History of Heresy, Genius, and the Violence of Erasure volume in the Hidden Histories of Women Series

The Name the Earth Remembered: A Rewoven Fairy Tale of Thumbelina

America, Late 1800s

Mina is small, quick, and easily missed—and she listens the way the land does, with her whole body. In her village, names are given by grandmothers, stories curve like rivers, and the ground holds what the world forgets.

When men arrive with wagons and careful words—education, civilization, opportunity—Mina is taken to a boarding school designed to erase everything she carries. Her hair is cut. Her language is forbidden. Her name is struck through and replaced with ink she does not recognize.

But beneath the school's floors, in root-dark spaces the institution forgot to watch, Mina discovers she is not alone. Guided by ancestral memory, and the earth itself, the children learn to pass what survives palm to palm in darkness—songs whispered into their own chests, resistance woven into silence.

What begins as remembering becomes return. What begins as one girl becomes all of them.

Companion to Women & Culture: Americas and Beyond - Hidden Narratives of Power, Preservation, and Reclamation volume in the Hidden Histories of Women Series

The Match Girl's Uprising: A Rewoven Fairy Tale of Cinderalle and the Little Match Girl

Chicago, 1900.

Ellie's hands haven't been clean since she was ten.

She scrapes match residue off factory floors, breathes phosphorus until her lungs ache, and watches girls her age lose their teeth, their health, their futures—all so a man in a clean suit can sell matches by the millions. There is no glass slipper. There is no ball.

When a friend's jaw begins to rot from the poison they were promised was safe, and another girl is fired for saying so out loud, Ellie does the only thing she knows how to do with a match. She strikes it.

What begins as one girl's defiance becomes a sisterhood of flame—factory workers whispering union talk over chalk-dusted tables, sewing ribbons of solidarity into their sleeves, and walking out together into a city that would rather look away. The press ignores them. The police harass them. Hunger sets in.

Some girls wait for a prince to save them. This one lit a match and saved herself.

Companion to Women for Change: Hidden Histories of Power and Resistance volume in the Hidden Histories of Women Series

The Twelve Who Walked by Moonlight: A Reweoven Fairy Tale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Virginia, 1864.
By day, the twelve Whitaker sisters struggle to keep their home—and one another—alive in a war that has taken nearly everything.

By night, they vanish into the forest, where blood and moonlight guide them to the dying and forgotten. Hidden beneath their farmhouse, they have built the Moonlight Ward—a secret hospital where they treat wounded soldiers from both sides, bury the nameless dead, and write final letters no family will ever know to expect.

When a Union soldier stumbles into their care, he uncovers the sisters’ impossible secret. Duty says he should report them. Conscience begs him not to.
Because the war is closing in, and if the sisters are discovered, mercy itself may become a capital crime.

Where men fought, they mended.
And beneath the moon, they walked anyway.

Companion to The Healers' Burden: Those Who Bound the Wounds and Fed the Hungry volume in the Hidden Histories of War Series

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Wendy's Home for Lost Boys: A Rewoven Fairy Tale of Peter Pan

France, 1915.
Wendy never meant to become a soldier. But when her brothers enlist and sail toward thunder, she steals her way into the heart of the Great War determined not to lose them.

What she discovers is a world where boys barely old enough to hold a rifle spend their last hours clutching memories, hopes—and sometimes her hands.
With nothing but a medic’s armband and a book full of stories, Wendy becomes nurse, witness, and anchor to a trench full of “lost boys” the world will never name.

But the war is relentless, and every boy Wendy saves is matched by another she cannot. As the lines push forward, Wendy must make an impossible choice: return home with the living—or stay in the trenches, where the lost boys need her most.

Some children never fly away.
Someone has to stay and remember them.

Companion to Known Unto Us: The Hidden History of War's Caretakers volume in the Hidden Histories of War Series

The Boy Who Gathered Seeds: A Rewoven Fairy Tale of Jack and the Beanstalk

Ypres, 1919.

The soldiers went home. The earth they fought on stayed broken.

Jack never wanted to be a hero — he wanted to be a farmer. But the war scorched the fields, poisoned the rivers, and took his mother, who believed that every war eventually ends and life rises from the cinders.

When a wandering trader offers Jack ancient seeds — "beans that remember" — a vine erupts into the sky, leading him to an abandoned military tower hiding something the war never meant to leave behind: a vault of preserved seeds. The treasure at the top isn't gold. It's the future.

With Jillian — a girl fierce enough to stay when everyone else fled, Jack must protect the seeds meant not for him, but for tomorrow. This one begins when a boy kneels in ash and plants a seed.

Companion to The Wounded Earth: Environmental Devastation, Ruin, and Renewal volume in the Hidden Histories of War Series