Growing Up As...Taylor Swift by Angela Gail Griffin mainly focuses on the younger and formative childhood years of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Readers are introduced to a very young Taylor Swift as they learn more about her motivation, dreams, aspirations, and firm determination to succeed....

I Wonder if a Star Will Fall is an anthology assembled by Joe Gantz. The stories in it are written by children and chosen from thousands of submissions. The stories range in topic and tone. Some are records of the lives of the children themselves....

Dancing is wonderful. Dancing can make you travel across worlds, dimensions, memories, and dreams, and can make your soul sing with happiness and delight. Ellie, now an older woman, lost her life partner, her husband Hugo. After he passed, Ellie was trying to come to...

In Strong Girls Travel: AJ's Adventures at Indiana Dunes by Amy Friedl, AJ is a young girl eager to explore the world in all its beauty. In this adventure, AJ is visiting her cousin Charly, whom she hasn't seen in a while. She was expecting...

Music has its own magic as Princess Lily is about to find out. In Katrina Johnson and Roi Emmanuel Quilario’s Lily’s Song, three princesses demonstrate amazing powers, but Princess Lily doesn’t believe in herself and her power of music. Her oldest sister is a fine...

Petra, a spirited young wild horse, has some growing up to do. In the meantime, however, she loves to gallop like the wind, faster than any of the other wild horses in her herd, even faster than her best friend, Felia. In Hazel Dains’s Like...

If you enjoyed reading Summer of L.U.C.K., you will enjoy this sequel, Ready or Not (Summer of L.U.C.K. Trilogy) by Laura Segal Stegman with illustrations by Victoria Marble. Justin Pennington is back along with his friends Darby McAllister and Naz Nezri at Camp Inch along...

Shine, My Amazing Girl centers on the lives of several girls at a school, as the author, Emma Meyer, outlines their difficulties and the way they meet each challenge. Caroline tries to find a new social group after her brother has a skateboarding accident. She...

It is so refreshing to read a children’s picture book about Christmas where the major character is a person of color. Mr. Nap A. Lot learns what the spirit of Christmas entails in Mr. Nap A. Lot’s Merry Christmas Adventure by Shani T Night. Mr....

Arise, My Amazing Boy is a work of fiction in the social issues, adventure, and educational reading subgenres, intended for independent readers ready for their first chapter books. It is penned by author Mateo Sommer with illustrations by artist Henrique C. Rampazzo. Young readers are...