The Aquamarine Surfboard by Kellye Abernathy deals with themes of love and loss, both personal and communal. Condi and her grandmother live in the beach town of Dipitous Cove. It's a surfer's paradise, and Condi has hopes of one day being able to surf with...

The Last Text You Sent by Elise Fender is a dramatic young adult romance that tells the story of one teenager's struggles to cope with the loss of her brother. Whit was the Nashville football star who held Avery's family together. When he unexpectedly passes...

What's Troubling Tawny? by Emma Sandford is a gorgeous and original picture book. The way it is illustrated is fabulous. The text is embedded next to the pictures in various ways which makes it all the more appealing. The drawings perfectly complement the text. It...

Life’s Daily Treasure is a work of non-fiction in the inspirational subgenre. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Richard V. Battle. The book contains 366 entries to be read one per day with the aim of providing readers...

The Creator’s Descendants by Allici Edragal, the first book of the Rebirth of the Heiress series, starts off in a prison cell containing the greatest threat to the World Government – fifteen-year-old Althea. After nine years of imprisonment, interrogation, and torture, Althea is freed by...

Scottie's Ten Bubble Yawns by Sanne Rothman is a fun and educational picture book for young children. The book tells the story of a dog named Scottie, who sees bubbles everywhere he goes. He sees them when the laundry is being cleaned, at a car...

Single and Preparing: Marriage Preparation Journal by Angelica D Lassiter is a self-help guide on how to prepare yourself for marriage. Whether you are in a relationship, single, or recovering from a breakup, this book will help you work on areas of your life that...

Mandalay Hawk’s Dilemma: The United States of Anthropocene by Peter Aronson is an extremely important novel, written for middle-grade students but it is equally informative and, most of all, motivational for any age group, from 6-year-old to adults. It deals with climate change as it...

Standing at Water's Edge: A Cancer Nurse, Her Four-Year-Old Son and the Shifting Tides of Leukemia describes Brennan's journey with leukemia and how it impacted his mother, Janice Post-White, and the rest of her family. Diagnosed at four and a half, it details his...

Psychology of Horror Villains, Survivors, and Victims: Volume 1 Movie Edition by S. L. Yarbrough delves deep into the psyche of numerous fictional and non-fictional characters. The book has sections with a mental affliction as their main theme, so for instance, if the mental disorder...

Katy has a problem. She is different than most of the other children in her class. Julie Schanke Lyford and Robert A. Schanke explain how Katy is differently-abled in Katy Has Two Grandpas. Katy has a lisp. Kids and adults can be cruel to children...

Twelve Days of Christmas Murder and Mayhem by Aaron T. Knight is a humorous and entertaining read with a fun mystery and a charming sleuth. Miss Marble is well-known for her sleuthing skills and detective work. Miss Marble is drawn into a murder mystery and...

The Day the Sun Didn't Rise by Robert Bossler is a beautiful picture book for young children. One day, the moon and stars were waiting for the sun to rise so that they could go to sleep, but darkness remained and the sun was nowhere...

Finding Marius by Helen Yeomans is the suspenseful story of ten-year-old Marius and his carer’s friend, Erin McLean, who are on the run from Marius’ uncle, Michael Diaz. Marius is in witness protection with his carer Yolande in Fort Morgan, Colorado, and is set to...

Are you brave? Can you do anything you set your heart to do? Even when you’re awake and the others are teasing and bullying you? Nino is a platypus and he wants to believe he’s the bravest in Animalandia. Well, he is in his dreams....

There’s nothing prettier than a colorful rainbow after a storm. But when a wicked witch flies into the rainbow and breaks her nose, her anger takes away the beauty, one color at a time. Sabrina doesn’t want to lose all the colors. She has a...

In Motherhood, Siamak Vakili tells the story of a young woman, Ms. Shahverdi, whose life-long dream was to become a medical doctor. In spite of growing up in a very poor home, she got married to a respectable man while she was studying, fell pregnant...

Dads are pretty special. I know my Dad was. How about yours? Oliver has never met his grandfather, his father’s Dad. In fact, his Dad has never met him either. Oliver makes a list of all the things he would tell his grandfather about Dad...

Po Po Says, written and illustrated by Ashley Ng, is a collection of eight inspiring stories in Asian American History. Asian immigrants and their children have not been treated well in the United States. This book features stories in which the ill-treated Asians developed strong...

The Sneaky Kitten: Invisible Magic Wand Book Four by Lois Wickstrom is a picture book for young children. One day whilst out on a walk with Grandpa, Caspian sees a frisbee flying by. Grandpa tries to catch it but misses. Caspian decides to rescue the...