We all like to dream big and no one likes to lose. But, sometimes, the odds are stacked against some of us and it’s very difficult to have a fair chance. That didn’t stop Reya. She lived in a box-shaped house, an apartment, with her...

Take a Boy’s Own Annual story from my childhood, update it to the twenty-first century and you have Charles Salter’s captivating children’s adventure book, How Three Brothers Saved the Navy: Kare Kids Adventure #3. Matt (12), Ryan (10) and Jack (8) are three typically rambunctious...

Zhane The Boy Train by Ookgie Taylor introduces readers to Zhane Sparks by taking them to Joyceville Elementary School at Joyceville, Maryland. He is playing with his friends in the championship basketball game for their school. Their team name is Joyceville Lions. They are playing...

Mystery at Point Beach: Pirate's Booty by Kate Jungwirth and Deborah Ann Erdmann takes the young reader on a journey through time as it notes some fascinating details about pirates, their lives and what that may have been like. The story is an enchanting mystery...

The HappyFeet Kids Load the Train by Donald Dione is an intelligently written, well-designed book for preschoolers. Created to respond to the HappyFeet's imaginative and innovative “Story Time with a Soccer Ball” methodology - one that enables children to enhance their cognitive growth, develop self-confidence,...

Meet the Pops is a children’s adventure story by Belinda Barbieri. Coco is excited that she and her brother, Soda, are starting school today. But Soda doesn’t feel that way because he’s adopted and believes he won’t make any friends. No one wanted to make...

From Frights to Flaws: Alyssa McCarthy’s Magical Missions: Book 1 is a fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Sunayna Prasad. Life had gotten very dreary for Alyssa and her cousin, Hailey. When Alyssa’s parents died in a car crash five years earlier, a...

Kurt, Gert, Jazmine and Bagel: A Halloween Nightmare by Irene Dolnick is the story of four puppies who travel on the train together to Phoenix. They arrive at their station and Bagel finds a Halloween Store. All four pups are drawn inside. They get a...

Ten-year-old Braidy is back with his eccentric family in Braidy von Althuis: And the Gullible Ghost Hunter (Vol 2) by Cassidy Dwelis. The boy who tried hard to fit in now has a great friend by his side. Kara is a witty and smart one-arm...

In this final book of the Orkney trilogy, The Raven God by Alane Adams, Loki accidentally kill Odin’s son, Baldur. Odin imprisons Loki and his family. Life in Orkney returns to peace and tranquility after the Volgrim witches have been conquered. However, the calm is...