It’s just before World War II in Massachusetts, and there’s something evil going on at Howling Manor. Dr. Volkov—“Call me Dr. V"— and his two minions are experimenting on children, injecting them with wolfbane in the hopes of creating were-volks. However, the tests aren’t going...

Jeffry Glover’s The Wildebeest and a Bunch of Crock and Other Animal Story Poems is a delightful compilation that captures the whimsical charm of animal tales told through poetry. This collection is told in narrative story poem forms as fables in verse, tall tales, and...

The Second-Smartest Dog by Will Pass starts when a nameless, big-eared dog is left to fight for his life after being thrown out of a moving car. An angel, figuratively speaking, in khakis saved him and brought him to the vet to be treated. After...

The Hunt is a work of fiction in the animals, adventure, and action subgenres. It is intended for middle-grade readers and contains some mild violence. Penned by author duo Sofia Foskaris and Stefania Foskaris, the story takes readers on an enthralling journey into the lives...

The Horseman Who Came From the Sea by Jeff Turner is gentle, historical fiction at its very best. Henry Cameron was a young man in turmoil when he and his best friend attended a camp aimed at introducing young teenagers to a life at sea....

Frankie starts making unusual breakthroughs in her research on the brain activity of animals to the surprise of both her friends and her colleagues. They do not know that she has an interesting gift that allows her to communicate with the animals and insects she...

The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon by Delas Heras is set in an anthropomorphic 1950s universe where journalist Flint Lockford, an Irish wolfhound, is killed in a suspicious piano accident just before he could propose to his girlfriend, Bianca Moon, a spirited Angora cat. As...

The Language of Kin by Lynne Hugo is an intricate tale about attempts to rehabilitate a severely mistreated chimp named Eve, who was brutally taken from her mother at the vulnerable age of three and put into cruel experimental labs for eight long years. Renowned...

For the dogs that comprise the pack of the Forest of the Forsaken, it is a brutal existence where the difference between life and death could be as simple as failure to pay heed to instructions. Their leader, Kai, rules the pack with an iron...

Ann Ketchum is a divorced mother of nineteen-year-old Brian, living in a dull, beige house in a Southern California suburb. After her husband, Dan, had left her, Ann became agoraphobic and never left her home. Brian is jobless and still lives with his mom. He...