Blessing and Curse is the opening book in the Acrabha Stone series by J. Elias Epp, an epic fantasy with an irresistible appeal for young adult readers. The novel has a very strong premise. Rylen has never known his family and he will do anything...

Can you imagine training your entire life for something, and then when it finally comes time to do it, you can't? That's the problem the prince faces in Once Upon and Ever After by Caroline L Thornton. He's prepared his entire life to rescue and...

Helix Gets His Wheels is a children’s social issues picture book written by Randal Betz, Jr. and illustrated by Claudio Icuza. Helix was the new kid in Mr. Torty’s classroom at the Tortington School. When the teacher introduced Helix to the class, Helix explained that...

When I pick up a novel, the first thing I look for is how well the author develops motivation in the protagonist. The central question is: what drives the protagonist and how does the author allow it to move the plot forward? In The Book...

Johnny Boy is written by John Califano. Born into a tumultuous working-class family in Brooklyn New York, Johnny Caruso tries to make sense of the abusive relationship between his parents, while struggling to find a voice of his own. His bitter, alcoholic father, Bellisario, believes...

Winter Takes All by ML Erdahl is the first book in the Seattle Wilderness Mystery series. Crystal has started her life over with a new job and a change of location when she becomes a wilderness guide after bluffing her way into the job. Working...

Rabbit Redemption is the third book in the Rabbit Trilogy by Ellen C. Maze. The story of Beth and the Rakum community continues. A battle begins as the story continues. After the Rakum race was almost decimated and only a thousand few remain, a new...

An Impish Christmas: A Young Adult Holiday Rom Com by Angel Leya is part of the Shifter Academy world and is set a year after the Siren Prophecy series. It’s Christmas and Kenzie couldn’t be more excited. Too bad no one else is. Not even...

Honor by Francis Williams is an expansive tale set in the year 425 CE, sweeping the reader across the Territories of Europa with one family’s determination to find a better life. The collapse of the Roman Empire precipitated this decision when control of land and...

Paul Sutton and Don Frank, who just graduated high school in Santa Monica, were surfing buddies. The Vietnam War and the draft were in full swing. Both young men joined the Naval Air Reserves, and both were stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines. When...

Backstretch Girls: A Novel by Dawn LeFevre is a wonderful novel for sports fans, especially horse racing. They meet in the most dramatic of ways: "Two seconds later, the horse blew past and Teagan caught a glimpse of the rider’s face. No one she knew,...

Chloe is very excited. When she woke up this morning, one of her front teeth was loose. She had to tell Granny right away. You see, Granny used to be a fairy and she was friends with Gwen the Tooth Fairy. Chloe was told to...

I Used to be a Fairy... a true story told by Granny by Cindy OBrien is a children’s picture book. Chloe loved to spend time with her Granny, they had so much fun together. But Chloe had noticed that, whenever her Granny hugged or kissed...

When we take our cars and go out for a drive, we rarely – maybe never – consider how the road system makes our lives easier. It is even more improbable that we give a thought to those energetic human beings who built the infrastructures...

Beware the Violet by Maria Vermisoglou is the first book in The Eulogimenoi Series. Violet is used to small-town traditions that she can’t wait to put behind her. She didn’t consider herself the type to believe in such nonsense as Halloween and magic yet when...

The Cursed Amulet by Elizabeth Forest is the second book in the Crow Magic series. Suli has settled into her role as a wise woman but she couldn’t have predicted that when she helped a young girl, she was about to discover far greater trouble....

Unicorns, Magic, And Slime, Oh My! (Fizzle Fun Book 1) is written by Misty Black and illustrated by Pardeep Mehra. Sage is a very scientifically-minded little girl that loves doing experiments. She loves adding all sorts of fun and interesting things to her experiment like...

All the elves at the North Pole have a special job assigned just to them. Some of the elves make the toys; some of the elves do the baking and make the special Christmas dinner; some of the elves work hard to restore Santa’s sleigh...

The forest was always filled with the hum of fairy wings but the children of Croffield's Children's Home were allowed into the woods only once a year and it was their annual Christmas tree excursion. Shining Wings McClaire thought the Children's Home was not the...

My Ice Age Struggles: What was it like to live during the Ice Age? by Rich Linville takes young readers back to the Ice Age and gives them glimpses of how life was during that period. The earth was colder and part of it was...