Moxie and her black horse named Misty are a team. While Misty looks to the rest of the world like an old switchback nag, she really is a stealthy horse with lots of energy and, most important, magic. Moxie has magic too, at least when...

In An Appointment with Fear (Masterminds Incorporated) by Chad Lee Erway, when schoolboy Jesse is torn away from his old life, friends and his beloved detective agency, he believes life cannot get any worse. As he starts his new school in sleepy Wolverton, Jesse soon...

Ollie and the Starchaser by Tanya Southey takes children’s adventure into outer space in a delightful novel. Shy young Ollie lives in Australia with his loving, but busy parents and unfriendly, teasing sister. School is hard and lonely, and he’s often picked on. Ollie’s greatest...

Whales and Magic: Sinbad the Sailor’s First Voyage, the other Odyssey Book 1 is a mythological adventure tale for children written by Ruth Finnegan and illustrated by Kevin Nara. A poor porter was sitting outside a wealthy merchant’s house one day, and he wondered aloud...

Dilby R Dixon’s The Time Dreamer by Tony J. Perri takes us on a magical adventure through our imaginations. Dilby Dixon is an eleven-year-old just about to graduate from Elementary School and head off to Junior High. Dilby was once a non-entity among his schoolmates,...

A pirate ship that floats in the air instead of the water, a young warrior who chooses a pen as a weapon (or more accurately, the pen chooses the warrior), the choices we make are not always about winning in a chess game or winning...

Go-Cart Gertie is an action and adventure, social issues graphic book for children and preteens written and illustrated by Cindy Shirley. Ten-year-old Gertie wished that she could hang out with her big brother and his friends. She was tired of going to school and coming...

Castillo continues to share his unique mechanical abilities and works with famous scientist Nikola Tesla to figure out how to operate a unique orb in The Jupiter Chronicles: The Orb of Terra by Leonardo Ramirez. Still unsure of the fate of his father back on...

We all like to dream big and no one likes to lose. But, sometimes, the odds are stacked against some of us and it’s very difficult to have a fair chance. That didn’t stop Reya. She lived in a box-shaped house, an apartment, with her...

Take a Boy’s Own Annual story from my childhood, update it to the twenty-first century and you have Charles Salter’s captivating children’s adventure book, How Three Brothers Saved the Navy: Kare Kids Adventure #3. Matt (12), Ryan (10) and Jack (8) are three typically rambunctious...