The Night of Samhain: A Halloween Fairy Scary Story is part of The Everkind Tales by Gael J. B. Orr. It’s Samhain night, and there’s a full moon. Emlyn the tawny owl sits in the hickory tree. The fairy sisters Willa and Violet are tucked...

Every family has a story of courage somewhere in its past. For the Swarts, theirs begins in 1912 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the experiences of the author's own ancestors, eight-year-old Helena Swart is at the center of it all in Penny S. Ledbetter's De...

Catherine Ann Russell’s The Chosen Path gives us a front-row seat to an emotional ride with the main character, Princess Journee. She unintentionally disrupts her kingdom’s traditions, and her only real way to fix things is by tackling a difficult trial to earn her royal...

Mark Binder’s The Worst centers on an ordinary eighth-grader who navigates the awkward world of a small New England middle school along with his tight-knit group of friends. Calling themselves Team Bomb Shelter, these clever middle schoolers use an ironic scale to rank their daily...

Riley loved unicorns like many kids her age. Her love for unicorns was evident in the numerous toys and unicorn posters in her room. Riley ate unicorn cupcakes and even had unicorn underwear. Of all the people who love unicorns, Riley was special because the...

The Amazing Critter Rescue Crew by Brandon Detwiler is a children’s comic book that introduces readers to Clyde and his crew. Clyde calls for a meeting of the Amazing Critter Rescue Crew (ACRC) and does a roll call. The group is made up of superhero...

The Moon and Me is a dreamy, magical, read-aloud counting book for young children. The gentle rhythms of the text by Nielle P Marques track nighttime animals in the sky, on trees, on fences, on land, in the woods, and in the creek. Flying herons,...

Tales from the Diving Board by Linda G. Eldredge, EdD, is a story of a young girl who dreamed of swimming like a mermaid but found herself freezing after watching kids leap off the diving board at her local pool. When she befriends Delia, a...

In Pannell and Sigfusson’s The Big Dream, Brandon is a downtown schoolboy whose final English grade depends on an essay about his summer plans. He thinks his ordinary routine cannot fill the assignment until GameTeck announces a remote-operated car race in Riverside. The contest offers...

In Kris Nedy's The Fairy of the Enchanted Lake, Michaela is a girl from Summerscent, a mountain village. Children mock her appearance until she follows a butterfly into the forbidden forest and finds the Lake of Lacrima. A fairy grants her wish to become beautiful,...