In this collection of thirteen short stories, even the un-spookable reader will experience goosebumps. The Pumpkin Pastry Princess is my favorite. A story of fitting revenge that refuses to leave the reader’s mind, well into the dark hours of the night. Mary loves Halloween and...

The Splendid Secrets of 66 Lilly Pilly Lane (The Faren Chronicles Book 1) by Elena Paige is a fantastical adventure that will take young readers on an adventurous trip with twelve-year-old Chia, a blind girl working in the mines, to 66 Lilly Pilly Lane, a...

The Adventures of Polo the Bear: A Comic Book of Climate Change Part 3 by Alan J. Hesse sees Polo the Bear in India, resuming his journey and traveling through the streets of Mumbai. Everywhere he goes, he sees climate change happening due to emissions...

The Adventures of Polo the Bear: A Comic Book of Climate Change by Alan J. Hesse is the second book in a three-part series. This comic book begins with the fishing vessel heading back to port. Polo the bear is locked in the hold of...

The Adventures of Polo the Bear: A Comic Book of Climate Change, Part 1 by Alan J. Hesse takes readers to somewhere off the coast of Greenland where a lone polar bear is hunting. He tries to follow his mother's instructions while hunting. The bear's...

Trygg the Dinosaur by Paula Louise Salvador is a delightful story about the strength of friendship between two dinosaurs. Trygg is newly hatched, finding himself alone and having to run from a mudslide that wipes out what remains of his nest. As he ventures out...

In The Disenchanted Wizard (Grimhilderness Book 3) by Mike Crowl, Della is having a typical day. She is dreaming of meeting her favorite footballer, Xanadu Whitworth, whose posters cover every inch of her bedroom wall. She herself is an enthusiastic soccer player and in fact,...

The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High by Elizabeth Eckford, Eurydice Stanley, and Grace Stanley is a non-fiction memoir of what happened in the early days of desegregation and, specifically, when a young girl became the first black student to enter an all-white...

What if you could change into a fly on the wall and experience something about your family’s past? In this case, the main character, a nine-year-old girl whose name is Grizelda Day, who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, always wondered how she got her...

When someone comes to a children’s book like The Library of Secrets: The Giant Mistake written by Zoe Penn and illustrated by Z. Pahek, it is often uncertain what age group is targeted for readership. Sometimes, this age consideration remains unimportant; other times, it can...