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...

Sheltered: When a Boy Becomes a Legend by Jacob Paul Patchen is a story that rallies your spirit and lifts your soul as the children left to defend our great country step forward to fight. James is just twelve, but he has the makings of...

Lisa is an eleven-year-old fifth grader who has been extremely shy for as long as she can remember. Even getting called on in class causes her to panic. Her friend Jackie is shy as well, and it was only thanks to their parents that the...