Jessica and Emily are moving to a new house in London, and Jessica is not terribly thrilled with the prospect, in Melanie Dore's Young Adult and Preteen Historical Novel, The Elephant Tree. The two sisters are surprised and thrilled when they finally arrive at the...

Drinking the Poison and Waiting on Your Neighbor to Die by Dominique Wilkins is about how attitudes can change lives. Savannah hates everything about Kaleena. She tries to make Kaleena's life miserable with her scheming ways and hatred. But Kaleena's attitude of not being bothered...

Trey sees a tragic scene unfold before his eyes – at the bottom of the swimming pool! In Hippocampus: The First Book of the Atlantis Revolution by Tom Tancin, young Trey Atlas discovers that there is more to the myth of Atlantis than anyone suspects....

Pen or Discipline by Dominique Wilkins is the story about a mother raising two daughters very strictly and how both of them grow up to have totally different characters. Dorothy and Danielle, both raised by the same mother, bring up their sons in a contrasting...

When a story begins with large circus animals spread across a Midwestern highway as Tiger Hunting does, you know that author Tracy Million Simmons has one heck of a tale in store for the reader. Jeni is on her way back home to Kansas from...

If you have ever played and enjoyed games like Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights or any other role playing computer games (or even traditional pen and paper RPGs like I still remember them), then it is quite likely that A Mage's Power – Journey...

Oberon’s Court is a somewhat short tale introducing the reader to The Court of (Faery King) Oberon, and Andrea “Andy” Chamberlin, a human from a different time line. Andy is a college student, majoring in Art, much to the displeasure of her parents. Intent on...

This is a wonderful story. You can’t really help but be interested when the opening chapter is the death of a piano teacher on Lucy and Gus’s living room floor. What follows is a beautiful story of a girl growing up, and growing into the...

Annabelle Sullivan and the Restless Spirit Society by Ivy K. Tyler is about Annabelle, Chloe, Bradley, and the ghost whom only Annabelle can see. No one believes Annabelle when she tells them about the ghost except her friend Chloe. Though she believes Annabelle, Chloe is...

Ordeal at the Old Ivy Oak is a young adult coming-of-age novel by John Funke. Jerry and Benny Banks are heading out for their first solo camping trip. Their father, who usually accompanied them, felt it was time they went out on their own while...