Have you ever been partnered with someone you didn't like? That's the problem main character Sophie faces in the book Sophie Washington: Mismatch by Tonya Duncan Ellis. Sophie decided to try out for her school’s tennis team and was happy when she made the team,...

Selah and her horse Sweet Dream save the life of a forest ranger early in the story, but the plot quickly switches over to an all-too-common situation: Selah’s Dad has a job change and the family has to move several hours away from their current...

Snow Globe Travelers: Samuel's Legacy is a science fiction/fantasy adventure novel for children and preteens written by K.A. Cummins. Sarah Ann Reisende was twelve years old, finally! And to celebrate, she and her mother had left the family goat farm where they lived with Sarah’s...

Sophie Washington: Secret Santa by Tonya Duncan Ellis is another story in a delightful series that is aimed at young readers. It is about the life and adventures of Sophie Washington and her eight-year-old brother Cole. Her school's Christmas Holiday is just three weeks away...

Stranded on Thin Ice by Sharon CassanoLochman is a quick read for young adults and a story that will bring warmth to adult hearts as well, a story that combines coming of age and adventure to provide great entertainment to readers. Tanner Phillips is only...

Sophie Washington: The Snitch is the second book in Tonya Duncan Ellis’s series for children, grades 4-6. Ten-year-old Sophie has an awful secret that only her best friend, Chloe, knows. Sophie is being tormented by an older girl who is new to the school. Lanie...

Sophie Washington: Queen of the Bee is a novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Tonya Duncan Ellis. Sophie was definitely not interested in participating in Xavier Academy’s spelling bee. The ten-year-old hadn’t intended that her parents know about it, as she realized they’d want...

Spirit Runner by Richard Ferguson is a book that celebrates that indefinable character inside us all, the indomitable human spirit. We meet young seven-year-old Ron Campbell, a promising age-group athlete, who ends up facing the worst that life’s circumstances can throw at him. After losing...

Speckle the Annoying Freckle by Michael Verrett is a fun children's book about a young girl named Grace. Grace enjoys reading, and she reads a lot. She keeps a stack of books on her bedside table. One night, she decided that she would try to...

Ariana, or Ari to her friends, has a phobia – Arachnophobia, a spider phobia. And it’s hit her hard. So much so that Ariana can’t sleep at night for fear of spiders crawling all over her; she really doesn’t have any friends as they all...