Bella Santini in the Land of Everlasting Change by Angela Legh is a delightful middle-grade coming-of-age fantasy novella. Bella Santini is a fourteen-year-old, ordinary-looking girl living an ordinary life. She wants to spend the summer inside, painting all day, yet her parents dragged her with...

Bodies in the Bayou by Cheryl Campbell takes readers on a chilling journey through the Louisiana Bayou. When Janie Martil loses her father figure and one of her best friends, Jack, to murder, she wants to know why, but she doesn’t expect to be on...

Guard in the Garden: Fables of Finlestia by Z.S. Diamanti begins with a terrifying battle in Galium, in which Felton Hudlom is badly injured. Months had passed since the tragedy, and things were slowly returning to normal, despite the severe devastation caused by the dragon's...

Love and Betrayal in the City of Lights by Rachel R. Heil is an intriguing tale set in Nazi-occupied Paris, following the intertwined lives of young intellectuals, artists, and ordinary citizens as they struggle with love, loyalty, and betrayal. In 1941, aspiring poet and philosophy...

Seahorses in the Olive Jar by Barb Kirpluk follows Walter, a puppet crow unable to fly, who struggles deeply with acceptance and emotional vulnerability. He develops a strong, idealized devotion to Gypsy, a real crow introduced to him by Dervish, a bold and scheming puppet...

Sirius, the Brightest Star in the Sky by Sue Elias opens with a young boy pointing to a star and asking his mother its name, which is Sirius. His mother also tells him that a long time ago Sirius was a kind and helpful star,...

Church Dog and the Girl in the Mirror is another of Tracy Matte’s Christian adventure stories for kids. Tayja is a happy child and can’t wait for her first day at school. But when she gets home, it’s clear she didn’t enjoy it, and her...

The Gifted Storyteller: The Power is in the Story You Tell by Gregg Korrol is an inspirational story. Michael did everything he thought he should do for a successful life. He had a good job, he had money in the bank, friends and a few...

Lorenzo Maria dell'Uva's The Never-Ending Run: The Complete Guide to the New York City Marathon includes the race’s history, a mile-by-mile description of the race course, and a map of the entire route. Additionally, there is information on qualifying for the race and a year-by-year...

The Messenger: The True Story of a Boy Caught in the Aftermath of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Claude L. Chafin is an engaging biography that revolves around Andrew Lee Chafin who was the link between the elder Hatfield and his sons from the age of...

I have been a lover of fairy tales my entire life. Long before I understood the often-dark symbolism, or the deeper psychological terror that runs through most fairy tales, I simply enjoyed how afraid these stories made me. I think this is the attractive point...

The Spyglass and the Cherry Tree by Matt Beighton is the first book in The Shadowlands Chronicles. Skye doesn't believe in her mother's goblin ramblings. Now she's in for a dreadfully dull holiday with her grandparents and away from her best friend, Arthur. Her holiday...

Still in search of their missing parents, the Lancelot twins are going on another thrilling adventure through the mists of time in the middle-grade adventure, The Shadow of The Great Fire (Shadows From The Past: Book 17) by Wendy Leighton-Porter. A new clue to the...

The Female Breeders: In a World Controlled by Women by Melanie Bokstad Horev is an interesting perspective of what an all-female society could look like. EVE has five clans of genetically engineered women. Each clan has a special enhancement that sets them apart. For example,...

The Adventures of PJ and Split Pea: Vols. I-III is 3-volume collection of humorous adventure stories for young readers written by S.D. Moore and illustrated by Bobbi Switzer. PJ was the smallest kid in his class, and he sometimes got teased about that by his...

In this book Mandy Lender takes The Law of Attraction, a subject that is controversial and somewhat confusing, and goes to the Bible to see God’s view. He uses Habakkuk 2:1-4 as his text for explaining the biblical view. As the author explains these verses,...

The Cure for Divorce by Michael S. Sayen contains a scholarly essay, followed by a question and answer section. Sayen explains that Jewish marriage was a unilateral covenant. An offer of marriage was initiated by the man, and accepted by the woman. The bride price...

The Impress of Heaven (In the Den of the English Lion Book 2) by Neal Roberts is a historical mystery that takes place in London in the 1600s. The story starts with Serjeant Noah Ames accepting the job to investigate the Earl of Essex for...

In the opening pages of this spellbinding nonfiction business book, The Stepford Employee Fallacy: The Truth about Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace, Jonathan D. Villaire states the purpose of the book in unequivocal terms: “In the following pages, I will be dismantling the contemporary...

The Last Blast of the Trumpet: The Third Book in the Knox Trilogy by Marie Macpherson is a tale of skullduggery and political shenanigans that was the Scottish court in the mid-sixteenth century. John Knox, the great protestant reformer, has returned to Scotland to turn...