Josh has a surprise package awaiting him after school. It’s from his Granddad. He unwraps it carefully and discovers a strange, blue stone inside. He studies it closely, but he doesn’t know what its significance is. In Mary Ann Hake’s Just a Piece of Stone,...

Cecile and The Treasures of Belamor by Marilyn F. Churchill offers children a delightful fairy tale. I was quickly reminded of the fairy tales I grew up with, tales of dragons that breathed fire, knights in their shining armor, unicorns with horns that sparkled, and...

Michelle Erickson has created a new series sure to please the pickiest fantasy readers. In Chest of Souls Book 1, we meet nine year old Talon and the adventure begins with a human sacrifice. The Sons of Ammon were present as the Guardian clasped the...

'The Colors of Myself' by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot is written in poetry prose form of illustrations of a four-year-old child in which his illustrations are painted to represent the thoughts in his mind. The words relate to the child's feelings during the time he...

"Harvest of the Heart" is a tightly written suspense novel about a serial killer, his victims, the FBI agent obsessed with his capture, and an avenging angel. Selmer builds suspense very well and requires the author to engage immediately. The writing is clean and the...

"Stories Not for Children" takes three well-known fairy tales and twists and skews them into adult conspiracy theories and tales. The underlying stories of 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Sleeping Beauty', and 'The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple' are barely recognizable once author Godrak is...

“The Story of Everdream” is told by grandmother Holly about a trip she took to Everdream when she was little. Now that she is older, she has secrets she wants to share, and she wants to share it with each child who reads this book....

Camy De Mario's children's book "The World of Happy - Let's All Be Friends" is a cute book teaching that friendships can be formed across cultures. Happy, a red sea star, is bored and his friend helps him to fix up a boat and he...

When eleven year old Preston Carter Potsdam, a rich kid from the east, arrives in Nebraska, the lifestyle is so different that he feels as if he has landed on another planet. Befriended by Steve, a confident and outgoing fellow student, "Potsie" as he is...

This is another book in 'Karen Pirnot's Ordinary Kids' series which is aimed at pre-teen kids. The main characters in these stories face hurdles. Crighton, an energetic, friendly, popular kid who lives for sports, is diagnosed with leukaemia. Suddenly his life becomes completely different. He...

"The Adventures of Chubby Cheeks" tells the pro quest story of this boy who, because of his cheeks, was so aptly nicknamed Chubby Cheeks. This is written in Chubby's point of view. His adventure started during summer when every one seemed to have gone somewhere...

“Freckles is Scared of School,” is book 1 in Vickianne Caswell’s 'Freckles the Bunny Series', and is an adorable start to a series that children will enjoy reading. Freckles loves playing and spending time at home with her mom; however, Freckles is suddenly told that...

Sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze belongs to a race called the Elfies – a mix of Elves and Fairies – who live in the cursed kingdom of Reign. The curse has shrunk the people in size, leaving them to live in trees or under rocks. The evil...

Thea isn’t quite your average girl. Sure she has the normal teenage girl problems like which clothes to wear and how to make her school uniform more unique and of course there is the fact that her parents just don’t understand her. But there is...

"A Christmas of Grace" is the story of eleven year old Grace Gillian and her almost six year old brother Henry James. For the Gillian children life had never really been stable. Because of their alcoholic mother, Grace had always been the one to make...

I just finished reading The Battle of The Grandmas by Anthonette Klinkerman. I absolutely adore this book! The premise of the story is one little girl with three sets of grandparents all vying for her love and attention. As so often happens, the little girl...

Who wouldn't like to go on a treasure hunt? Fifth-grade friends Silky and Sly discover a haunted ghost ship and buried treasure. Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot in The Ghost of Gasparilla: A Silky and Sly Adventure makes a children's dream come true. Silky, a curious...

Freckles and the True Meaning of Christmas (Freckles the Bunny Series) (Volume 4) by Vickianne Caswell is set against the backdrop of Christmas. Freckles and her friends eagerly look forward to Christmas, mainly for presents. We meet Freckles' whole family in this story; Freckles the...

Tomfoolery and 13 Yule Lads of Iceland (James and Syvok) by Wendy Nystrom is an ideal story book for children and its seasonal theme makes it even more relevant right now. James and Syvok set off on their third adventure. There are 13 Santas and...

Thorns of an Innocent Soul by Barbara Watkins is a book about the disturbing influences a bad mother can have on her children’s life. Written from the point of view of Jennifer, this novel takes us into an amazing world of betrayal, shattered innocence and...