Sweetbriars: Leaving The City by Hollie Anne Marsh tells the story of Cate and her family as they move to a new home in the countryside, far away from her friends and all that is familiar. The plan is to set up an equestrian centre,...

Narrow Escape in Norway: An Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure by Christine Keleny is set against the backdrop of Norway. Agnes and her grandmother, Agee, are in Norway to meet someone with the name Nick Borge. They are there to find out what happened to Agnes’...

Author Carol McCloud in Buckets, Dippers, and Lids: Secrets to Your Happiness explains how each individual has three secrets to their happiness. She stresses that it is involved with a Bucket, Dipper and Lid. A bucket is used to contain one’s happiness. People give into...

Sirius, the Hero Dog of 9/11 is a story about a patrol dog that was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. It gives details concerning what this dog could have heard before that awful day’s events. Sirius could see the height of the...

Twelve-year-old Malik had to flee when his village in Afghanistan was bombed. Now he lives in a corner of a bombed-out school with other refugees in Kabul. The Shoeshine of Kabul by Zahra Omar Shansab paints a portrait of Malik and his 16-year-old friend Nahim’s...

Fairday Morrow and the Talking Library by Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson is a wonderful adventure and magical mystery story, the second in the series, where readers are taken to Begonia House in the opening scene. Thurston Begonia is no more and the local librarians...

You Gotta Have Heart is a coming of age novel for children and preteens written by Bruce Bernstein. Alan Michaels was excited and just a bit nervous about his first day of classes at Sensei Hideki’s School of Karate. He was the first boy from...

Smiley Face Blatoon/El Globipelotón Risueño by Lady Nefari Ydarb is a bilingual (English/Spanish) picture book that follows a group of smiley face balloons as they travel the globe. They pass by the Statue of Liberty on their way to Canada, where they nearly get pecked...

Gina Daniels believes that she is the ugliest girl in Franklin High School and John Walters, the school bully, always reminds her about it in the story No Trespassing: Echidna’s Darlings Volume One by M.E. Palmer. Gina always tries to avoid him, but one day...

Video Game Takeover by D.T. Vaughn is a young reader action adventure story intended mainly for boys, but any young person who enjoys playing video games will most likely enjoy this book. The story follows a twelve-year-old named Caleb who lacks confidence and struggles with...