The Legend of Denali (A Wolverine with Heart) by Gregory English is a heartwarming story about Denali, a young wolverine who lives in the cold wilderness of the Alaska Range. Wolverines have a reputation for being tough and picking on other animals. So when Denali...

The Last-Place Legends by Kevin Treaccar follows eleven-year-old Rainer Thomas after moving from Georgia to Lakeland, Texas, leaving behind his championship-winning team. In a new town, he joins the Legends, a youth baseball team with uneven skills and uncertain chemistry. Striving to help the Legends...

The Boy Who Set Fire to the Moon by Harshad Sai is a well-written book that teaches children to appreciate naturally occurring phenomena such as sleep, daytime, and nighttime, among others. Mom takes Tom to the playground on the first day of the summer holiday....

The Music Within by Renelle Dsouza is a gentle, inspiring picture book about Anna and Oliver, siblings who initially resist learning the keyboard their father brings home. They would rather play outside than practice, often throwing tantrums and finding music boring. But with their father’s...

Do you believe in the splendor of unexpected friendships? In There's a Frog in My Hair by Patty Lennox, young readers are introduced to a boy named John, his dog, Ruff, and an unexpected companion: a frog named Hopper. The story kicks off on a...

Chris Von Halle’s The Mire Witch: Between Dark and Light brings readers into eleven-year-old Mara’s world, a hidden pocket that her father, a powerful wizard, forged in the middle of a swamp. It is concealed so well that even passersby would end up walking straight...

Terrance McPhee and the Toy Eating Tree by Kathleen MacInnis Kichline is a well-written book that aims to teach children to appreciate the value of positive friendships. At the top of a hill, Terrance McPhee releases his paper airplane TMP-3 to soar, but it gets...

The Library of Wonder by Lizy J. Campbell is a charming and endearing middle-grade fantasy about a lonely girl named Emma, who discovers an abandoned library and finds herself pulled, quite literally, into the pages of a book. Beginning as a mysterious adventure, it evolves...

The Young Mystery Series: The Missing Lunch by B.K. Maxwell is a brilliantly well-written book that takes young readers on a mysterious adventure to discover the thief responsible for some missing PB&J sandwiches. Nine-year-old Kia and her twin brother Marcus are detectives, and they have...

Teddy and The Gipper by Len Clark follows the adventures of a young boy and his friendship with a college football star. Teddy Flynn was nine years old when his family left Chicago to move to South Bend, Indiana, after Teddy's father got a job...