Bob Crane flies to Columbia National Refuge in Washington State every year, along with six thousand other cranes. Families who live in Othello have a Sandhill Crane Festival to celebrate their arrival. Many spectators visit the area to view the amazing sight. This year was...

The Proto Project: A Sci-Fi Adventure of the Mind by Bryan R. Johnson is a fun action-adventure story. Jason’s mom works for a high-tech company, and one day his school takes a tour. From then on, it’s one action-packed scene after another. It’s a clean...

Beatrice’s grandmother, her guardian, is gravely sick and might not recover. Haunted by her own dark shadow and scared to think where her life might go if her grandmother dies, Beatrice goes about her chores with a numbness that is so unlike her. She desperately...

Teena and Deena: Hide and Seek is a children’s animal picture book written by CC Strachan and illustrated by Christina Rudenko. Teena wants to teach her little sister, Deena, how to be a whiz at playing hide and seek. She doesn’t think Deena has any...

Barrett is a lively colt who loves to run and play with his colt friends. They all love to run, as they should since all of their fathers are great racehorses. Barrett loves to run, but he loves to jump more. When the colts spot...

The Pirate Princess is a children’s adventure picture book written by Alva Sachs and illustrated by Patricia Krebs. Madison’s mom wondered why her daughter was sitting by her bedroom window and crying. Madison explained that she and her friends had made plans to go out...

Oggie is a ghost. But Nikki doesn’t believe in ghosts. Neither do some of her friends. However, when they study some photographs Patti’s grandmother took at an old graveyard, they’re baffled by the misty smudges off to the side. Time to investigate. Nikki and her...

The Trampling Trembling Tanglelow Tale, written by Greg McGoon, tells the story of a battle between Tramples and Trembles, awkward types of Tanglelows that cause disruption in the mind. Interestingly written, the colorful trail that the reader is sent on talks about these disruptions, and...

The Rainbow Frog & The Mad Scientist: The Adventures of Caroline and Euni, Book 1 is an adventure story for children and preteens written by Joshua S. Joseph and illustrated by Chia Americo. If there was anything nine-year-old Caroline loved almost as much as her...

The Royal Search for Shenanigans is a work of fiction in the adventure sub-genre, penned for children by author Nita Marie Clark with illustrations by Kathy Doherty. This delightful and partially illustrated chapter book is a great introduction to independent reading for young children, and...