The Girl Who Hated Australia (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 1) by Jack Thompsen revolves around seven-year-old Jorie who is going to Australia. Jorie is unhappy and she tells her mother that she hates Australia. Her mother tries to convince her otherwise, saying that...

The Little Big Girl (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 2) by Jack Thompsen revolves around a little girl who lives in a little city. She lives in a little house and has little shoes. Her family is big, Mom, Dad, Sam the cat, and...

Readers get to see Emma coming back from school in a bad mood in The Listening Story (Not So Serious Jack Series Book 3) by Jack Thompsen. Her father wants to know why she is so angry and she tells him that no one in...

God Quit by Anthony Cabrera is a unique story that first caught my attention because of the title. And I asked myself the question as I downloaded the book: What happens when God quits. I wasn’t disappointed when I started reading. In a story set...

Writing a book is one great undertaking. But when it’s done and ready to produce in book form, is the writer’s job really done? How many publishers should a writer approach before giving up? Or should the writer ever give up? Well, there is another...

Unveiled: Raven Daughter, Book One is a young adult fantasy novel written by A.D. Trosper. Jo Collins and her sister, Victoria, sat on either side of their mother's hospital bed, each holding her hand. They knew she was dying, and they were determined to be...

The Missing Piece is a romance novella written by Marie Lavender. After waking up on the front lawn of a college fraternity, the darkest of thoughts cloud Alyssa Masters’ mind, which is devoid of any memory of the night before. Interrupting those thoughts is Justin...

Dr. Guinea Pig George is a children’s book, written by Becky Benishek and illustrated by Kelly Cline. George is a Guinea Pig who lives with a human family. At the head of the family’s household is a doctor, also named George. As patients call Dr....

Mr Piggleworth’s Adventures with Responsa-Billy-Bee by Nicole Cadwallader is an educational book for children which will help a child’s learning level by introducing, guiding, and helping them recall their skills. This workbook is a good learning experience as it teaches children new things and gives...

Poetry is a great form of expression. Poems for Kids & Me by Jessie L. Best is a fun, entertaining and engaging collection of poems suitable for children. The colorful illustrations and the poems will have children giggling and wanting more as they read about...

Genna's Fight: Will She Be Able to Discover Her True Self & Get Her Son Back In Time? by Sheldon D. Newton begins in a way so that the reader can’t help but keep reading. The hook is very powerful: “I am divorcing you Genna....

The Homecoming by Tammy Tate is a great opening for the Bayou Shifters series, a perfect blend of sci-fi and fantasy and a book for readers who are into unusual characters. Sydney, a rare breed, a half-human and half-wolf, has been having unusual dreams for...

Henrietta, eldest of eight children, often feels the burden of trying to keep her family afloat after the death of her father. While her mother takes in mending and her younger sister does the same, most of the living expenses fall on Henrietta’s shoulders. Henrietta...

Dropsy by Debra Luke Hardison is a fun, rhyming children's book about a girl named Jordan who finds a baby squirrel that fell out of its nest. She names the squirrel Dropsy, because it fell out of a tree. Jordan's family keeps Dropsy for a...

Fate's Roar by Jalpa Williby is the next novel in the Fate Series and I am irrevocably in love with Williby and her writing style. If you had told me that I would be this immersed in the story of gargoyles, I would have never...

Where is Spring? Wacky Weather by Lorita Clarke-Scott is a fun children's book. Three trees, named Maple, Willow, and Oak, desperately want spring to arrive. Spring is their favourite season, and their leaves start to grow. But winter refuses to leave. The trees are freezing...

Chipo and the Mermaid by Grace Ashley is subtitled An African Fairytale and it is certainly also a mermaid story with a difference. Chipo and her father, Mukoko, lived in a little village in the savanna plains of Africa. Chipo’s mother died in childbirth and...

Forever Skating Forward: Figure Skating Friends Old and New by Joanne Vassallo Jamrosz is an inspiring and entertaining book containing stories of skaters, a book that skating fans will adore. In the introduction, the author shares her experiences and how the idea behind this book...

The purple hands on the front cover intrigued me so I had to read That Curious Sign on Aisle Nine, written by Kyle Morey with Laren Bright. And of course, when I read the sign on page 8, I also wanted to know what was...

The Falcon's Revenge: An Aviation-Based Thriller by James Horling is a hypnotic thriller that features the quest for revenge, terrorism, and political intrigue, a page-turner that will be hard to put down. “A 10-year-old boy named Raquir just saw his father, mother, and one of...