Melo: The Quest for the Flaming Red Flower by Lehann Anderson is a beginning reader’s book about adventure, outer space quests, and making new friends. In it we meet Melo, a cute blue alien from Mars who lives a life much like a child on...

Miss Rachel is going to teach the kids about pumpkins on Monday morning in the storybook Justin’s Pumpkin Patch Adventure by Tamika L. Prince. She takes out some pumpkin seeds and tells them how a farmer plants the seeds in the ground. Pumpkins need sun...

In The Tukor's Journey by Jeannine Kellogg, young siblings Mitch, Tony, and Jovi are wakened by the startling reality that the world as they have always known it is about to be destroyed by strange creatures called Grezniks. In fact these creatures have existed for...

A Night Game is a fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Allie Compeau. Hugh and Owen figured that it had to be their little sister, Immy, who had left a messy pile of toys and blocks in their middle of their bedroom. The...

Thirteen-year-old Kate struggles to adjust after her parents split up and her father leaves. One day, she leaves school early and goes to the park across from her home. Here, she receives a strange gift from a crow with a single white feather. Kate pursues...

It seems strange to call a book about poor orphans and dark magic charming, but that is the first word I thought of when I read The Lost and Drowned by Stuart Fryd. The central characters of the novella are two sisters, Lydia and Sophie....

The wonderful anticipation for any reader of young adult fiction, but an equally difficult challenge for its author, is the always exciting and expectant notion of One … Great … Story. The implication being: The writer had better be a good storyteller. In just such...

Fractured: Dereck Dillinger and the Crystal Ball is a children’s adventure fantasy novel written by Eddie McPherson. Dereck had been about to go for an afternoon of fun at the fair with his friends when his mom called to say she’d been held up at...

Ducky’s Real Life Adventures by Robbin Joanna Scott is an enlightening story that shows how some mothers may reject their young when they disobey them, even if it is accidental. Ducky is informed of this by his mother and tries his best to keep up...

The Halloween Parade (Monstacademy) by Matt Beighton is an awesome book about a young girl named Trixie Grimble. When her school shuts down, Trixie is sent to Monroe's Academy for the different, known as Monstacademy, which is a school for monsters. Except Trixie Grimble is...