Petra, a spirited young wild horse, has some growing up to do. In the meantime, however, she loves to gallop like the wind, faster than any of the other wild horses in her herd, even faster than her best friend, Felia. In Hazel Dains’s Like...

Susie Strickland Sizzling Striker, Part 2: The New School by K A Mulenga continues the story of a talented girl athlete who loves soccer/football. Susie’s dad has a new job, and the family must move to a new town and a new school. Susie is...

Sol the Sunflower by Amora Correa is a picture book that features the story of Sol, a magical sunflower that stands out from the rest of her friends. Her friends wish to sparkle like her, but they do not know how. Being asked, one morning...

We all have a past, and the past comes with baggage. What one does with the baggage will affect their life now and in the future. In Baggage by Laurel Lorenzini, children learn how to handle their baggage and how much better life is when...

Alliteration at its best, Molly dreams of being “perfectly pretty in pink” for picture day. The only thing is, she loses one of her front teeth just before picture day. She can’t smile now, can she? Or can she risk being “imperfectly pretty in pink?”...

If you enjoyed reading Summer of L.U.C.K., you will enjoy this sequel, Ready or Not (Summer of L.U.C.K. Trilogy) by Laura Segal Stegman with illustrations by Victoria Marble. Justin Pennington is back along with his friends Darby McAllister and Naz Nezri at Camp Inch along...

Maya loves the outdoors. She loves to watch the leaves falling and she enjoys dancing to the music made by the swaying trees. She is like the lotus flower, “a strong-willed flower, resilient as a nurtured child.” In Patricia Ambinder’s As Maya Grows in the...

Emma is a real champster. That’s what we always called our dog when he braved the unthinkable and continued to hobble through life with joy and jubilation. William found Emma in a field, starving and dehydrated, barely alive. She had obviously been abused by her...

Fear is the most powerful and paralyzing of all emotions. Emotions are natural and everyone has them, but the trick is in how to control them. Willow the Skunk has to face a typical fear of school-aged children in Willow the Skunk Gets Schooled: On...

Reading can be fun. But first, you have to learn the basic sight words. In Dawn Renee Young’s Little Cub’s Big List, Little Cub is on a mission to learn and memorize his long list of sight words. Sight words are hard to remember, but...