The Mighty Brisbrom by Robert S. Buck is about two children, Katie and Jason, who go for a walk in the White Mountains of NH. They discover something there which will change their lives forever. They come across the only known dwelling of The Mighty...

It's All In Your Mind (Books We Love Fall Sale Series) by Ann Herrick is a love triangle between Vija, Nolan, and Joel. Vija finds herself attracted to and falling in love with Nolan, a folksinger whom she meets in a coffee shop. His cool...

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...

The Iron Queen (Daughters of Zeus) by Kaitlin Bevis is about Persephone who is captured by Zeus, trying to stand up against his power. Hades, her husband who loves her very much, wants to protect Persephone from Zeus and his torment. He comes up with...

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...

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...

In ShockWaves by Suzanna Williams, a high-octane YA novel that clips along as fast as our thrill seeking free-runner hero, English teen and foster kid Lee finds himself tangled in a nasty web of kidnapping, terrorism, and explosions. Told in head-long cinematic fashion, ShockWaves is...

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...

The Reality of the Supernatural by Demetra S. Gerontakis is a collection of stories about paranormal phenomena with true experiences of everyday people. Some individual experiences are accompanied by scientific explanations, as well as cultural and religious analysis on the matter of supernatural incidence. I...

In The Gift of Misfortune, Haitian siblings, Armand and Deborah Etienne, live in fear of an unpredictable future in their hometown of Port-au-Prince and the rest of Haiti. The young Etiennes are not rich, but they have a comfortable life compared to most people who...