Mr. and Mrs. Elliott had the most beautiful home in the neighborhood. It might have been small, but it had a colorful garden and a lovely charm. But over the years, their neighborhood changed drastically. Their neighbors sold their houses, and three-story or four-story buildings...

Kodi’s Adventures: How I Learned to Defeat the Time Snatcher by Mindy Hudon and illustrated by Barbara Szepesi Szucs is about a young boy named Kodi who, as far back as he can remember, always had his time snatched away. The story starts on his...

Jack Cooper was only twelve when he lost his father and best friend, John Cooper (Redds), to a tragic accident. Now his mom, Jill, urges Jack to travel with her from Pennsylvania to Alaska; it will be a trip Redds planned for the whole family...

We often hear the words: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way!” Sage advice, but what if the odds were stacked against us and the mountain we wanted to climb was too tall or too steep? What if we’re born with a physical defect, malformed...

Red Dove, Run Through the Fire is a work of fiction in the adventure and cultural fiction subgenres. It forms the third book of the Red Dove Trilogy for children in the middle-grade reading group and was penned by Sonia Antaki. In this continuation of...

Finding Fairies by Michelle Roehm McCann and Marianne Monson describes special creatures from around the world. Asian fairies include the Chinese house fairy, the Japanese kobito, and the tokkaebi from Korea. England has forest and water fairies, while Irish fairies love riding white horses. In...

Super Enemies by Lois Wickstrom and Janet King is a children’s book in which the authors deal with topics like misunderstandings between siblings and bonding. The main characters of this story are Mira and Carl, who fight each other on every occasion; so much so...

Lila the cat is always in a good mood. One day, Lila approaches her food tray and finds inside it a sparkly, mysterious yarn colored pink and green. What could this yarn be? Following its thread, Lila begins an exciting and mysterious journey that...

Learning new skills takes a lot of patience and practice. Often, all your efforts seem to be in vain, and you may think there is no improvement. In these circumstances, it is easy to feel frustrated like the young protagonist in My Violin is Not...

I is for Imani! by Kerice Robinson is a children’s book that teaches the alphabet from the Kwanzaa celebration perspective. Throughout this book, kids not only learn the alphabet but also interesting and new facts about the Kwanzaa celebration. Each of the 26 letters of...