All twelve-year-old Marlon McDoogle wanted for Christmas was a model train set to play with. When his grandpa shows up in the middle of the night with a present, he expects just that. When he unwraps the gift to find a scarf, he is secretly...

Oggie is a ghost. But Nikki doesn’t believe in ghosts. Neither do some of her friends. However, when they study some photographs Patti’s grandmother took at an old graveyard, they’re baffled by the misty smudges off to the side. Time to investigate. Nikki and her...

History’s Mysteries: The Chocolate Train Wreck is a historical adventure mystery for children, grades 4-6 written by Donna L. Martin and illustrated by Estella Hickman and Donna L. Martin. It was late September in Hamilton, New York where Abigail and her new best friend, Nathan,...

Annalynn doesn’t expect to find her family sick in the living room, but that’s exactly what happens. When she tries to help out by giving them tissues, a strange thing occurs. Some strangers in red and blue force themselves into the house and steal their...

Brody Cody and the Stepmother from Outer Space is a children’s book written by Toni Pike, suitable for ages six to ten. It describes how his mother was killed in a road accident when he was only a baby so he has no memories of...

Pekin Dewlap has had an obsession with spirits and the unknown for as long as she can remember. This might be because she could actually see ghosts. As she grew older this gift began to wane, but she wants to contact and help spirits still....

A young girl and her best friend set out to stop a Villain from ruining Halloween in the fun middle-grade novel, The End of All Halloweens (The Adventures of UberGirl: Book 3) by Matthew Cox. Nine-year-old Kelly Donovan has problems. Not like most nine-year-old girls,...

Mystery at Point Beach: Bushwacked by Kate Jungwirth and Deborah Erdmann is a fun children’s adventure that is clearly part of a series about these three young sleuths, written by this author team. When Dominic goes camping with his Grandfather Bob (GB), in his reliable,...

Where is My Teacher? written by Dalal Ghanim Al-Roumaihi, and illustrated by Nikos Yanopulos, is filled with imaginative art and rhyming text. The drawings and words call to mind both movies and books. Witches, aliens, Tale of Despereaux, Mary Poppins, floating tables, falling umbrellas,...

Mrs. Murray’s Home is a work of fantasy and supernatural thrills written for middle grade and young adult readers by author Emily-Jane Hills Orford. In the third novel in The Piccadilly Street Series, we find ourselves tagging along with Mary as she travels with her...