In M.L. Woodward’s children’s mystery novel, Tianna and Michelangelo’s Mask of a Faun, thirteen-year-old Tianna Howard and her grandfather, Professor Charles Howard, are thrust into a major international search. Everything starts with an unaddressed envelope dropped off in Oxford containing only four words. This clue...

The Seaside Sleuths and the Croft Beach Lighthouse Mystery is a fabulous mystery adventure book for children that continues Joy Michelle Austin’s Seaside Sleuths series. The story takes us to Croft Beach, where eight-year-old Sam Wentworth, with his father, stepmother, youthful step-aunt, and siblings, moved...

Rose Watson is a ten-year-old who gets into trouble for drawing a rude picture of her teacher, Mr. Cross. The headmistress warns her that if she doesn’t change her behavior, she will lose her position at the Silverton Young Artists’ Programme. Later, the school plans...

Mean people are passing out unkind letters at night. They’re part of the Unkindness Club. But, in Jill Ammon Vanderwood’s The Unkindness Club, two friends, Persephone, a ten-year-old deaf girl, and Rowen, who moves around in a wheelchair, are set to make things right, to...

This Case Stinks! by Janice Garden Macdonald introduces readers to Casey, a young detective determined to solve a very smelly mystery at home. The story begins with Casey introducing his family, including his parents, his big brother on Team Green, his baby sister, and his...

In The Crow’s Ring by Pannell & Sigfusson, Brandon Woodberry and his friends are drawn into a long-buried mystery. Brandon realizes that a ruby ring, once dropped on his rooftop by his pet crow, matches jewelry reported stolen from a wealthy Riverside homeowner during a...

In Linda Maria Frank and JoAnn Vergona Krapp’s The Monster Bones of St. Frederick Island, Douglas Crawford travels to coastal Maine with his parents, his sister Janet, and his friend Wesley for a summer vacation that changes course after Douglas learns about a large skeleton...

Tannenbaum by Laurie Summers follows Nicola Hoffman, who is taken to her grandmother’s remote New Mexico home just before Christmas, where an ornate tree dominates the house. After falling asleep beneath it, Nicola wakes to find herself reduced in size inside the tree, surrounded by...

The Hidden Room: A Secret Seekers Mystery by Caren Cantrell is an engaging tale that captures the spirit of adventure and friendship. The story follows Riley and Ava, two curious, determined young girls living in the historic Veil Crest Manor Apartments. When a storm derails...

The Seaside Sleuths and the Bridal Batter Blunder by Joy Michelle Austin follows young Lily, who wants her dad’s engagement cake to turn out right, but a jar of candied orange peel goes missing during a busy week at home and school. To figure out...