The Great Time Lock Disaster by C. Lee McKenzie is a charming, fast-paced middle grade novel with lots of magic and mayhem. Pete Riley is not a very good wizard. He has trouble with spells and, during a magic lesson with a witch named Harriet,...

In Outback: Bothers and Sinisters, the new young adult novel by author Mark Wayne Adams, one of the books in the Family Tree Novel series, which also includes graphic novels, readers will be treated to a very unusual and interesting story that is certainly well...

Space Ranger Fred and the Shoelace Adventure by Matt Newnham is an exciting science fiction novel, great for elementary and middle school aged children. In this thrilling adventure story we meet Fred Sanders, a six-year-old boy. Fred's biggest dream in life is to become an...

Thirteen-year-old Glory Alley feels the weight of the world on her shoulders – and that’s before she discovers a new universe open to her through the magic of the Elboni Stone! In The Wish Thief by C.D. Verhoff, Glory is the object of jokes and...

Tales For Your Monkey's Mind by Steve Michael Reedy is a collection of short stories for children about growing up and having to face real life. The running theme through the novel is that simply growing up and acting like everybody else isn't a great...

Planet Ethos is at war with the mysterious, reptile-like enemy known as the Splicers. Their only successful defense is the Prime Initiative. All newborns with the compatible genetic code are injected with the Prime Stimulus. Each child that survives the stimulus develops an extraordinary ability...

Through the Shimmer of Time is a children’s historical fantasy novel written by Jennifer Jensen. Jim was pretty bored escorting his little sister Ashley through Granger Village again, but his mother had assigned him the task as part of his punishment for playing with the...

Stumbling across a beautiful stone in the mud by the local water pump, Cade thinks it will be the perfect gift for his mother. At home, though, it becomes the catalyst for major changes in their lives. In Finders Keepers by Dorothy A. Winsor, the...

Michael Verrett's 9 Things You Should Never Do When You're Sick is a very cute and creative story. Bailey is a sick little girl with a fever and she has been ordered to stay in bed by her parents. Naturally Bailey has other plans and...

Lithium Luke and his Gal Pal Peanut by Kathryn Berla is the story of what happens when ordinary Luke announces his ordinariness to the rest of the world – when everyone else has some super special ability. Luke becomes a bit of a star due...