The Adventures of Artie and Zac by Judeh Simon is a story about a boy whose dad is an inventor whose inventions always work. Dad also has the habit of talking about pixies and dragons and other creatures that Zac is sure don’t exist. Until...Dad...

The Secret of the Magic eyePad by Marsha Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her...

The Bully Brigade: The Turn Over is a social issues novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Tamala Floyd. Petey, Diego, Ruthie, Pudge, Bustah, and Charlie are Misfit Elementary’s bully brigade. They have a thing about bullying and the misery bullies inflict upon their victims,...

Still in search of their missing parents, the Lancelot twins are going on another thrilling adventure through the mists of time in the middle-grade adventure, The Shadow of The Great Fire (Shadows From The Past: Book 17) by Wendy Leighton-Porter. A new clue to the...

When her parents take off on one of their many work adventures, Isabelle is happy to stay with her Great-Aunt Emma in her little retirement village bungalow. Emma’s friends help make every day an exciting, often unexpected adventure. Mr. Bigg, who isn’t so big, is...

When the Keating children, Michael, Keely, and Jake, work to assemble a giant jigsaw puzzle, a storm passes through the area, bringing it with it a powerful electrical surge that agitates their dog, Pooches, while transporting a tiny stranger, the spitting image of Michael, from...

The Adventures of Rockford T. Honeypot is an exciting children’s adventure by Josh Gottsegen. Rockford was constantly bullied by his family and other squirrels while growing up in Tropland. His family then abandoned him when he unintentionally ruined their hazelnut business. Although timid, Rockford decided...

The Web Paige Chronicles by Emilio Iasiello is about a twelve-year-old computer whiz, who is called Web by her friends. As Web works on other people's computers, she tries to help them do better in the future with cybersecurity. She describes and explains how and...

Witches and wizards, cats and familiars, all go together, right? Especially at Samhain (otherwise known as Halloween). It’s a time when the curtain between the living and the dead falls apart and the two walk the earth together. But in a time when there are...

The Alligator Wrestler: A Girls Can Do Anything Book is an adventure book for children, grades 4-6, written by Carmen Petro and illustrated by Sarah Gledhill. Caitlyn loved her family’s vacations. This year, they were camping for two weeks by the Banana River in Florida....