Radical Ray: The Too Much Moment by Bobbi Chegwyn is a children's character-driven, coming-of-age story. Ray Roxby attends elementary classes at Booralee Public School. All Ray wants is to make people laugh, and he is quite good at it, too. He is determined to do...

Radical Ray: No Greater Love by Bobbi Chegwyn is about a young boy whose ordinary childhood is suddenly upended by family tragedy. The story opens with warmth and humor as Ray spends time with his mother, Shirl, and his grandmother, Leila, in their lively Sydney...

Rigged: A Starnet Novel by Rose Horn is an exciting, fresh, science fiction adventure targeted at the adolescent reading market. Cadet Tori Winston has long dreamt of joining the Starnet Officers' training academy and one day becoming a captain of a Starship. Despite her father’s...

Race to the Great Invention is an action-adventure sci-fi/fantasy novel for children. Written by Bronwen Butter Newcott, the story follows the adventures of sixth graders and best friends Tessa Hardy and Gus Tucker. While spying on their eccentric neighbor, Professor Argus Henchworth, and his yard,...

Nowadays, everyone uses the internet, even kids. Like the real world, the virtual world of the internet comes with its own dangers. It has become vitally important for kids to learn safe ways to use the internet. Follow RhinoRAM and his friends and learn the...

We can learn a lot from our grandparents and great-grandparents. Remember, they weren’t always old. In 1834, young Annie listened intently as her great-grandmother, Sarah Fulton, shared tea and cakes while telling stories of her involvement with the greatest tea party in American history, the...

Revolutionary Anna by Tracy Lawson is a short children's historical fiction book, based on a true story, that immerses readers in the American Revolution. One cold night in 1825, Anna and Benjamin Stone are sitting around the fire with their four grandchildren; Hannah, Benjamin, Thomas,...

Charity Tober’s Rise of the Sidekicks has left me imagining what the Avengers might have been like in their pre-teen years. All Ethan Parker wants is to get into the Justice Academy and one day be a part of the Nexus Guardians. However, he quickly...

Rock On, Dr. Peanut by Alan Venable is a collection of stories about the adventures of Dr. Peanut, a peanutrician who lives in a world where peanuts and other creatures can talk. The story is written like a documentary that follows the lives of these...

Red Dove, Run Through the Fire is a work of fiction in the adventure and cultural fiction subgenres. It forms the third book of the Red Dove Trilogy for children in the middle-grade reading group and was penned by Sonia Antaki. In this continuation of...