West: Journey Across the Plains by David S. Larson is an amazing chronicle of the journey of the Jennings family. The family plans to travel from Pittsburgh to San Francisco, seeking out their fortunes like so many in the mid to late 1800s. However, tragedy...

Colors! Take the Dog Out Book 3 is written by Lynne Dempsey. Do you know all of your colors? Do you know how to read and write the words for these colors? That's what this book helps young children do. This is a delightful story...

Secrets of the Home Wood - The Sacrifice by Julie Whitley is about a family that lives next a mysterious forest named the Home Wood. There are tales of family members disappearing after crossing the brook where sometimes they don’t return. The story begins with...

The Demons of Plainville: A Survivor’s Story of Storms and Reconstruction by Daniel R. Mathews is an inspiring true story of a boy and how he overcame his past. The Demons of Plainville is a first-person autobiographical narrative by Daniel Mathews. He tells us about...

Christmas Nevermore by Cadieux/Bastien tackles the relevant topic of global warming and environmental issues through an interesting story. The story is set in a village called Akilineq. People living in this village belong to the Inuit culture and they feel that there is going to...

A Month of Sundays: Stories of Love and Loss by Megan Gordon is made up of twelve short stories. Each story is unique and focuses on some type of loss. I was able to connect to each story even though each one was different. All...

Getting Through What You Can't Get Over: Stories, Tips, and Inspiration to Help You Move Past Your Pain into Lasting Freedom by Anita Agers-Brooks is an inspirational read about getting past traumatic life issues. The book tells the true stories of real people’s overwhelming hardships...

To other students in his school, Matthew Peters is just a weird quiet kid and a target for bullies. However, Matthew is the lord in his own universe, especially Excelsior, a popular web comic hero he created that is gaining more and more exposure. The...

Is My Child Autistic or Delayed? by Susan Louise Peterson is a useful book for all those parents who want to know more about autism. The book covers areas of communication, unusual behaviors, social interaction, and daily living of autistic children that usually cause concern...

Wow! I just finished reading Ednah Walters’ gripping book Witches, the sixth book in the Runes series, and all I can say is that I am impressed. What a great young adult read, full of intrigue, excitement, adventure, and yes, romance. This installment of the...

The Twisted Diary: Obsession by Anne Roberts, the second book in a trilogy, is a story of revenge and betrayal. The author has written it in a very unconventional manner, that of a diary format as the title suggests, which makes the plot cogent and...

Moving to a new school is bad enough for a 12th grade girl, but at least being followed by two boys could make it better. Becca can’t believe Zac, a drop-dead gorgeous guy, is interested in her, but then strange things start to happen in...

It's 1934; the era of the Great Depression and Keith Watts was driving his train on the Southern Line. Then he does something unexpected by stopping his train to pick up a little, roving girl on the uphill run to Gooseneck Pass. It doesn't end...

“The goal is to become intoxicated with life. The tool is the heart. The medium is words.” Writing, as Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe illustrates time and again in her book Myth, Magic, and Metaphor: A Journey into the Heart of Creativity, is a combination of intuition,...

Hope: The Story of A Banana-Fish by David A. Neumeier is a beautifully written story about a banana-fish named Hope. David cleverly crafts the story in telling us about Hope as he intermingles the elements of the sea world into it. He introduces the book...

A mother will do whatever it takes to provide the very best for her child or children, even when it might go beyond those things which she has always believed she could never bring herself to do. Miranda K. Simon shows how she did just...

I really liked the premise of Greyhound Therapy by J.R. Conway. I guess I didn't realize that the practice of shipping transients and those suffering from mental illness out of town on a bus was something that was done. Now that I've been exposed to...

Join avian parents as they seek to care for their young in Survival Secrets of Turkey Vultures by Debra Toor. Father Vulture warms and watches over the hatchlings while Mother Vulture braves the dangers of air, land, and sea to find food for her family....

Move over Stephen King and Dean Koontz and make room because The Dark by David C. Cassidy is here! The Dark is everything that horror fiction fans want – scary, unsettling, relentless and so creepy that you will not want to read it at night....

The title The Crazy Life of a Kid from Brooklyn says it all; Bill Morgenstein has a full and fascinating life and probably is still cooking up some new adventure. Every week, every month, every year there was a new adventure and all in the...