Hoot Hart is a 12-year-old boy who enjoys exploring the woods and open lands around his home out in the country in The Ghost of Saddle Mountain by Fred Whitman. Not part of any group at school, Hoot is at home in nature and loves...

Cordelia has a monstrous secret, one that no one knows about, not even her adoptive family, nor the society she lives in. Not even her best friend, Wally. Here is the secret — she is a monster in the morning. Cordelia Grey grew up in...

When you are reading a book and it reminds you of your favorite movie or TV series, or if it takes you to your happy place, you know that you have selected the right one. Harmless by Katherine Dell reminded me of one of my...

The Carlswick Deception: The Carlswick Mysteries, Book 4 is a young and new adult mystery novel written by S.L. Beaumont. While this is the fourth book in the series, the author provides enough background information to allow this novel to be read as a standalone...

Search for the Sunlight by Craig A Thomson is A Treewood Adventure. The treewoods are a part human, part tree race, a peaceful race, but now that the sunlight has gone and the fog has descended, they are gradually getting more and more depressed. The...

The Hanging Tree by Michael Phillip Cash is a haunting novella about a curse that has lasted generations upon generations, and how, against all odds, one girl managed to break it. Goody Bennett was a old wise woman who helped Salem village with her skills...

The Boat House by Jana D. Barrett takes us inside the world of the very wealthy, the very powerful, and the sometimes mentally unstable. Genevieve Vandermere–Anderson is eighteen, but for the last six years she has lived with the horrible guilt that it was her...

The Secret Witch by Jeff Severcool is a dark, Gothic tale about attaining freedom, even as you pass through the fires of hatred. Verity is a young woman who lives in Salem during the witch hunts. She and her adopted sister, Hope, decide to get...

Faces Behind the Masks by Thomas J. Brodeur is a comedic tale full of action and adventure. Travis Warnofski is 12 years old and, as far as he is concerned, his uncle is nothing short of a superhero. That doesn’t mean that Trav likes him...

Something is wrong with Edna’s younger brother, Harrison. He seems perfectly healthy, an oddity in itself, but he isn’t acting like his normal self. Edna pushes her worries to the back of her mind until she tears off the strange watch around Harrison’s neck and...