When fourth graders Madison and Josh are tapped on the shoulder to become members of a secret agency called the Small World Global Protection Agency in Mark Miller’s Small World Global Protection Agency: New Kids on the Rock, they had no idea what kind of...

Rosa in Bloom by Janet Rhyme Key is a coming of age, nice story especially for girls. It is well written and I enjoyed the tale. It is written at an appropriate age level, clean, and wholesome. It is a good tale to teach children...

There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Poetry is an artistic expression unlike any other. Some research suggests that poetry predates literature, starting out as songs and oral traditions of storytelling. Why poetry? The art of a few simple, well-chosen words...

"The Circle: Book One of the Sidhe" by Cindy Cipriano is a great children’s book about faery folk. A faery family live among the humans in the non-magical world as book store owners and a student. Calum is getting ready to enter middle school as...

Based on the rhyme “Rosa sat, so that Martin could walk. So Barack could run, so our children can fly – Yes, we can!” this children’s book tells the true story, in simple language and delightful photos, of the Black Americans who led the struggle...

"The Golden Rule" by Mark A. Anderson is another Christian book that teaches children from ten to twelve years old how to do to others what you want them to do to you, in a great story form. It is written as five stories, each...

The Earth Painter Book 1 of The Painter Series is written by Melissa Turner Lee, a stay-at-home mom with a degree in journalism and marketing. This YA novel stars Holly Scruggs, a strong female protagonist, who discovers Immortals that painted reality into existence: Theo, the...

"One Step Beyond Time", written by David Sperry, is a story set 10,000 years ago in a society of cave dwellers in the American Northwest. The narrator “pierces the fourth wall” to explain things to the reader which reads a little awkward and is sometimes...

"Finding My Place: One Girl's Strength at Vicksburg" is written by Margo L. Dill. This book was uniquely researched and written as an American Civil War Adventure Story. The genre of the book is historical fiction. Though designed as an adventure story, it is an...

To protect both the magical and non-magical world from evil, The International Bureau of Wizards and Witches forges The Treaty of Earthly Peace with the non-magical communities of the world. The goals are to create a world where both sides could live and work together...