Joyce Lattimer is a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a large Boston hospital. After seeing something out of the ordinary occur while caring for the sick infants, she becomes convinced that someone is deliberately causing harm to some of the babies and,...

Bingo Explores The Farm by Julia King is a magnificent book for all children ages three years old and up. The story is about a farm cat who goes exploring for a day of adventure. As we follow him through the fields where he finds...

Everywhere we go there are mirrors reflecting our image. Most of us avoid mirrors or only briefly glance into one as we brush our hair. Rarely do we study our own reflection. Perhaps we are afraid of what we may see. In A Conspiracy of...

In Chop, Chop by L. N. Cronk, David is ready for his first day of junior high when he meets the new boy in the city. Greg is a great talker and has a wonderful family that includes his younger sister, Charlotte. Greg’s father, a...

Joseph has spent most of his life in anguish due to tormenting, graphic nightmares that he cannot shake when he's not sleeping. In fact, sometimes he daydreams and they come to him: still the same scene, just as graphic and certainly as disturbing. Using karate...

Karleen has written a great book that will enthrall any fan of ghost stories. Her writing is fluid and descriptive. It is easy to read and understand. The story is well put together, with characters any pre-teen will easily identify with. Alison’s father, Mr....

"Surviving Mama" by Pamela Thompson is a fun read for those coming from dysfunctional families. The author contends that many families, especially those of African-American decent, have highly dysfunctional mothers in charge of a family which is generally fatherless. Due to cultural traditions and current...

"Betsy Beansprout Adventure Guide" by Amber Elmore is a delightful tale about a six year old girl whose favorite friends are park workers and park animals. Betsy lives in a State Park in West Virginia and she spends her days in adventure uncommon to most...

"Out of Time: One Couple’s Journey Through Cancer" by Nancy Greyson Beckerman is an insightful and moving account of one woman’s emotional journey as she comes to grips with her husband’s cancer diagnosis. By all accounts, Barry Beckerman was a healthy, physically active man in...

"Sikander" by M. Salahuddin Khan is an epic undertaking which hits its mark with an intriguing journey into culture, religion, politics and humanity coming of age. Sikander is a young Pakistani student who becomes disgruntled with family interactions and who leaves home to join the...

In "Dark Lake" by Louise Gaylord we find Allie, an attorney and certified PI, back in the Adirondacks and this time a murder hits close to home, in fact too close. When she arrives at the retreat where her family goes every year she encounters...

"Soul Guardians", Book 2 "Elemental" by Kim Richardson continues where her "Soul Guardians Marked" left off. The main character Kara Nightingale, who is a soul guardian/guardian angel, has single-handed help to vanquished the evil demon lord. In the process, Kara has saved the "elemental" child...

Sean Reilly, FBI agent, only wants to enjoy a short respite from an exasperating case over the July Fourth holiday. He can try to recharge from some emotional stress in his relationship with his girlfriend, Tess Chaykin, former archaeologist, with whom he’s had a few...

Erin Mitchell has created a masterpiece in her book "Born Colored: Life Before Bloody Sunday", for it clearly tells of segregation in the American South in those years just before the Civil Rights Movement. What Mitchell conveys quite clearly is that African-Americans, faced with segregation,...

Returning from the New World after eleven years of missionary work, Ignaz Pfefferkorn, a Jesuit priest, is imprisoned in Spain for ten years after the order was disbanded by Papal decree. In 1796, he is finally free and makes his way home to the Rhineland....

This is an excellent story for kids from eight to twelve years old but others will enjoy it too. It is easy to read and a great mix of an old-fashioned country family and a robot. The combination alone is very imaginative and the author's...

Many fiction and non-fiction books have been written about the Holocaust and the horrific treatment of six million Jews by the Nazis. Set basically in the year 1937, "Long Night Coming" is an excellent addition to Holocaust stories and a much needed one at that,...

"The Adventures of Caterwault the Cat: Feline Pie" is a delightful original fairy tale that will appeal to many preteen readers. Caterwault, the Witch's black cat, longs to escape her den and does so one day while she is sleeping. He takes a small bag...

This book was an edge of your seat thriller; the kind that you read until your eyes burn, the type that makes you ignore everyone else around you until you finish the last page. The plot of this novel is just as twisted and convoluted...

"Drugs Make You Un-Smarter" is written by a remarkable fifteen year old girl, Savanna Peterson, and her grandmother, Jill Ammon Vanderwood. To say I am impressed would be an understatement. MS Peterson has penned a unique book. Too often I find myself reviewing books where...