If It's Broken Don't Fix it - A Candid Look at our Complacent Education System by Sinhue Noriega is an interesting book dealing with the author's view point on the prevailing education system. He describes the system as broken and complacent. He calls the current...

Petty Cash by Kimberly Vargas gives us a glimpse of what goes on in the corporate world. On her 5th anniversary as an assistant at Blue Chip Financial, Rebecca Blake thinks that she will be promoted to Project Manager. However, Dr. Albert Noble, her boss,...

Tall Tales from the Small Folk Clan (Small Folk Tales) by Christine Larsen is a set of stories and rhymes for our little readers. The stories and rhymes, along with the illustrations, are absolutely delightful and endearing. The author has kept the child audience in...

Children will be drawn to this story of elves, druids, dwarves, trolls, monsters, and magic! Truth Teller, by Kurt Chambers, opens with Charlotte, a curious child, on holiday with her family. Running out of time before she must return to her everyday life, Charlotte sets...

For Rent Mystery Series Book 1: Dangerous Paradise by Eric James Miller is a thrilling story. Residents of an apartment building in Venice Beach, California find out that there is something strange about the place. Journalist Dana Santoyo investigates the eerie happenings there. She tries...

Gingerly's Bad/Good Day (Volume 2) - Book 2 of the Gingerly Chapter Book Series by Terri Kelley deals with Gingerly and her bad days. She hopes she will find good days soon. Her friend Zoe coaxes her into joining a club but Gingerly does not...

From the Dedication “to all the world’s children,” to the last page, Captain Crossbones in The Treasure Hunt, written and illustrated by Victor Ramon Mojica, delivers a delightful tale for children of all ages. In verse form, Captain Crossbones tells of a treasure he must...

The Phantom of Hunter’s Creek by Kristin Noller is an exciting debut mystery in which three pre-high school girls must find a hidden treasure to save the farm belonging to the grandparents of one of the girls. In the meantime, their small home town is...

When we first meet Sheila, the main character in Sheryn MacMunn's contemporary fiction novel, Finding Out, she's enduring the public humiliation of being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, in front of her neighbors, on the street outside their co-op building. Sheila is shocked to find...

In Corr Syl the Warrior, there is a rising conflict between Tsaeb, a primeval multispecies, and Danog, the Homo sapiens descendants. We follow a young Tsaeb warrior, Corr Syl, a descendant of rabbits, as he investigates threats from a neighboring Danog community. Together with...

After the Civil War ends, no one is the same. Families have been torn apart, loved ones are lost or dead, and everyone has to find a way to pick up the pieces of their former lives and keep moving forward. Anna Goben has lost...

The Legend of Stuckey’s Bridge by Lori Crane is a page-turning winner. Thomas Stuckey is a killer. It is the only way of life he knows and cares about. He rode with the famous Dalton Brothers, robbing banks, but he was too evil even...

You and Me Against the World is the first volume of Raymond Esposito's Creepers Saga. When we first meet Dr. Russell Thorn, he's working at Gulf Memorial Hospital in Florida. He encounters a baffling virus that begins with below-normal body temperatures in the afflicted. The...

Tainted Gold by Layne Walker is a story about how things can go terribly wrong if you only care about becoming rich. A guy called Donny is the main character and he's not exactly successful, i.e. he loses one job after the other because he...

Rough Drafts: Bumpy Writing is OK (Writing is a Process) (Volume 3) by Terri Kelley is the third part of the series on how to write a rough draft. A girl is watching a stormy night. She is putting down the words that come into...

My Dad Is A Great Man is written by Zehavit Tzarfati and illustrated by Mindy Liang. Within its pages you will find adventure, excitement, compassion, love, and the admirable characteristics of a father. A young boy is allowed to play in his dad's study. Filled...

Martin Kee’s new novel, Bloom: Or, the unwritten memoir of Tennyson Middlebrook, is a horrific and fantastical story that will keep readers turning the pages for more. All that Tennyson Middlebrook knows and loves about his world is coming to an end. There are strange...

Editing: It's Time for Corrections (Writing is a Process) (Volume 4) by Terri Kelley is the fourth book in the series Writing is a Process. In this book, the author speaks about editing and how to make corrections in your writing. The young girl in...

Orphan’s Heart by Lori Crane is the life story of Ellen Rodgers. It is 1862 and Ellen is seven years old. Her mother has just died, leaving her, along with her brothers and sisters, to live with Aunt Mary. Ellen shares her feelings with us,...

Conferencing: Let's Talk it Over (Writing is a Process) (Volume 5) by Terri Kelley is about the requirements of conferencing while writing stories. There are several volumes to this beautiful series which deals with the many aspects of writing. This series introduces and guides children...