My Fox Ate My Homework by David Blaze is a thrilling fantasy for young readers. Jonah — and he prefers being called Joe — is just eleven when they move. In his new school, he feels out of place. He can’t sing well and is...

Magic Dance by Jeff Lessard is an enchanting story for children in which they are taken to a part of the forest where one can see fairies and pixies dancing, playing, singing, and flying. The pixies were in blue and the fairies in green, and...

Join Max, a large Tonkinese cat, as he goes on a special mission with the most unlikely of people in Max's Christmas Adventure by Wendy Leighton-Porter. Max is a different kind of cat. With the aid of a magical amulet, he can speak and understand...

The opening paragraph of Mystical Aria: Seeking the Gallion Queen by Jean Neff Guthrie introduces us to a seventh-grade girl, Aria Vanir, who is looking at the stars, dreaming and wondering who lived among them. The aliens who receive her message decide to come to...

Maxx Airborne and the Legends of Rucker Park is a children’s book written in rhyme by Scot Barnett and illustrated by Kimberly B. Root. Maxx Airborne is dismayed when he is benched during a basketball game. As the shortest player, Maxx is believed by the...

MJ's New Friend by Judy Ann Lowe is about a new friend, Vebo, that MJ meets while playing soccer one day. MJ feels an instant attraction as a friend to Vebo, even though they barely speak a few words to each other on the first...

Missing is the second book in the Lessons From Fiori series written by Peggy M. McAloon and Anneka Rogers. After baby J.J. Burton is kidnapped from his pram at a public fair, his sister, Elle, and her friend, (reformed bully) Jimmy Backus, are on the...

Martin McMillan and the Sacred Stones is a children’s adventure by Elaine Russell. Martin vacations in Scotland with his friend Isabel, her father, James, and Moira, James’s girlfriend. Moira gets assistance from Professor Duncan to decipher her Scottish ancestor’s Gaelic notes that she found, and...

Jeremy loves his history. In particular, he enjoys learning about his family's history. He knows quite a bit about his African-American ancestry. What he doesn't know is that some of his ancestors were American Indian. He discovers this link to the family tree when he...

Midnight and Little Girl Blue by Tiffany Golden is a wondrous fantasy adventure story that will certainly engage and entertain younger readers. Little Nalla Blue is a child of the blue light, but as the story starts the reader quickly sympathises with this lone young...