Drowning the Flames by A.L. Wyss is a young adult fantasy that follows the adventures of Vivian Carmine, a teenage girl thrust into the secret world of mythical beings. Vivian continues her journey of self-discovery and growth as she has to face the Greek god...

In The Adventures of Syd: Lost in Bone Cave by Danielle Simone, it’s fall break, and Syd is ready to go spelunking on her dad’s work trip. For the last four weekends, they’ve been training on ropes and gathering supplies for their cave adventure. This...

In The Funniest Picture Book Ever: AKA Fartnado!, Derek Taylor Kent introduces young readers to a weird little town called Ha! Everything there is built around jokes, silliness, and honestly, some pretty bad manners. The town is full of strange characters, like Lonnie B. Lutz,...

The Adventures of Syd: A Trail of Trouble by Danielle Simone is a children’s adventure. As the story opens, Syd’s father, Dr. Gardner, shows her a destructive woolly adelgid he’s studying. He tells her that it’s an invasive species that is damaging the Eastern Hemlock...

H.S. Toshack’s The Smile of the Tiger is set during catastrophic flooding in Bangkok, where a house cat named Sheena becomes trapped alone in the Allen family apartment after the building is abandoned. With no access to food or water, she escapes through a garbage...

In Mootsie and the Invasion of the Robot Vacuum by Barbara Eckholdt Johnstone, Mootsie is a hidden creature that lives beneath Riley’s bed, formed from the small remnants that gather in a room that no one cleans. Riley answers every order to tidy the space...

Weepy is a dragon with an important mission: he must protect his castle. In J.J. Hebert’s Weepy the Dragon, the castle is under threat from an invading army. Weepy must overcome his fear of failure and come to the castle’s aid. But can he overcome...

The Mis-Adventure of Pepper & Salt by Liz Fahey introduces young readers to Pepper, a thoughtful little elephant who experiences emotions as colors, and his lively best friend, Salt, a gold-crested crane. Their day begins with curiosity when Pepper asks a playful question about Salt’s...

In the enchanting children’s fantasy, Fire & Ice (Dragon Island Legends) by Gregory S. Slomba, the Silver Dragon of the North attacks the villages in the islands and abducts the children to work in its mines and fields. Fifteen-year-old Benchu and Mai-Lin were saved by...

What does it truly mean to be alive? Does it mean being safe? Does it mean living in one place where everything is perfect, and the world is merely something you can watch through transparent walls? In Darya Ahmadi’s The Glass House on the Hill,...