Life can be wonderful and inspiring, but it can also be frightening. How do we deal with things that frighten us? Like the fiery dragon in our fairy tale imaginings? Or the music concert where we have to stand on a stage in front of...

Lou has always known her family is different. They are not from earth but from a magical, mysterious place called Storey. Growing up under her grandfather's care and guidance, she has yearned to know more about this enigmatic place. Unfortunately, her frantic internet searches, instead...

Are you one of these people that likes to make lists? I know I am. A list helps me accomplish all I need to do in a day. It also reminds me of all the things I should think about to balance the to-do list...

Melanin Brown Discovers America, written by Candice Davis and illustrated by Benedicta Buatsie, is a middle-grade book that centers around thirteen-year-old student Melanin Brown. Melanin is a seventh-grader at Shirley Chisholm Preparatory Middle School where she has a comfortable group of friends and is proud...

The Adventures of David And Donald: The Fractured Flower Pot by Matthew Moyer is a children’s educational book about the adventures that brothers David and Donald embark upon. On a particular visit to their grandparents' house, a little accident happens in the backyard. The boys...

The mother-daughter bond is a special treasure. Daughters look up to their mothers and try to copy their example, to do what their mothers do. Daughters are full of questions: “how do you get to the moon?” and “where do you keep your money?” With...

Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman is a delightful, middle-school-targeted adventure that finds three different but uniquely linked young pre-teens attending summer camp at Camp Inch, Michigan. Darby is a talented, young equestrienne but she is threatened by a recurring stutter that her mother...

It’s a difficult time for Ruby and her family. Her mother is serving in Afghanistan and Ruby, along with her father and young brother, have moved in with her grandmother. At 12, Ruby is on the cusp of being a teenager. With her mother halfway...

It’s very hard when someone you love is sick and needs to be treated at the hospital. When Emily’s mom tells her that she is very sick and needs to visit lots of doctors and perhaps even be treated for her illness at the hospital,...

In The King's Decree by Torina Kingsley, Princess Devina loved to fill everyone's lives with joy but everything changed when she became fifteen. From that day on, the sunshine disappeared from her heart and facing each day became a struggle. Although her parents tried to...