Everyone has an inner weirdo. It’s fun to eat weird food and play weird games. It’s fun to have a weird picnic. It’s fun to be weird together. Weirdo and Willy by Marcy Pusey shows both the meanness of name-calling and the fun kids can...

When You Became You is a story by Brooke Stanton and Christiane West about the continuum of human life. Penned in a way that’s intended to emphasize the different stages of the human cycle and their indistinguishable identity from each other, the book is meant...

Once Upon a Rhine by RA Anderson is the first book in the Cody the Cockatrice series. Over the last fifty years, Cody has watched children's belief in him decrease. Once upon a time, he had an important job as a guardian that helped children....

Daily Bread by Antoinette Truglio Martin is a children's chapter book that follows the story of young Sicilian-American Liboria “Lily” Taglia. Lily, her older sister Margaret, and the rest of their working-class family are bound by the mutual respect each has for their roles and...

Journey to Jumbalot by Ryan Wakefield takes readers on a gripping adventure with many wonderful creatures. Professor Wizoom is excited to build a doorway into another world, but his cat, Alby, is afraid to lose him since he had lived as a stray cat for...

Full Moon is a Halloween story about two sisters who go trick or treating. As they wander around the neighborhood, they notice many kids dressed in all kinds of different costumes. While walking from house to house, the girls looked up at the night sky...

Under the Blue Comet by Tom Hoffman is the first book in The Comet Kid Chronicles, a well-crafted story for fourth to sixth graders. It is filled with adventure and magic. Eleven-year-old Max Underwood’s life changes on his birthday when he becomes conscious of his...

Twell Town is an adventure fantasy novella for children and preteens written by Harriet M. Winter. Bunny Thread was an ordinary girl, but she was not quite as comfortable with the modern, tech-obsessed world as most girls her age. Maybe it was the fact that...

Bubba and Squirt’s Mayan Adventure by Sherry Ellis is a delightful children’s adventure and the second in a series of stories involving brother and sister, Bubba and Squirt. The pair has discovered a hole underneath a large tree in the woods near their house in...

Saygar the Superhero (Saygar Books Book 2) by Elizabeth Jurado is the perfect story to stir a child's imagination. Full of energy, heart, and unexpected twists, readers in grades 4-6 will gravitate toward this wild, fun story about Joseph and Saygar, and a Halloween plan...