The Secret of the Magic eyePad by Marsha Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her...

A sixth-grade girl confronts some of her biggest fears in the exciting middle-grade novel, Sophie Washington: Class Retreat by Tonya Duncan Ellis. Three days before going on a camping trip with her classmates, Sophie Washington watched the television show Finding Bigfoot with her eight-year-old brother...

The Bully Brigade: The Turn Over is a social issues novel for children, grades 4-6, written by Tamala Floyd. Petey, Diego, Ruthie, Pudge, Bustah, and Charlie are Misfit Elementary’s bully brigade. They have a thing about bullying and the misery bullies inflict upon their victims,...

Whether you’re an adult or child jokester, Punny Jokes To Tell Your Peeps (Book 2) by Lisa Ayotte will keep your brain whirling as you try to think of a punny answer to a clue like “What has four wheels and can fly?” You might...

Ruffing It by Greg Trine is a cute, funny children's story about a magic trick gone wrong. A boy named Mike wants to change his little sister into a frog for eating his homework, but his best friend Charlie, who is present during the attempt,...

Katy, her sisters Lacey and Charlotte, and friend Sharron love to ice skate. When their mother takes them to Griffin Pond to skate, the girls encounter five older boys who are up to no good. One of the boys grabs Katy inappropriately. The girls escape...

Giant by Greg Trine asks what if the Giant wasn’t trapped up in the clouds? What if instead the Giant held onto the beanstalk and took a ride down, looking for a soft spot to land the entire way? What would happen if the Giant...

Death of a Wallaby is the second book in The Wobbly Wallaby series written by Mike Skillicorn. Wally, Jake, and Peg are three starving wallabies that are running for their lives while being pursued by hungry dingoes. When the leader of the pack falls to...

Still in search of their missing parents, the Lancelot twins are going on another thrilling adventure through the mists of time in the middle-grade adventure, The Shadow of The Great Fire (Shadows From The Past: Book 17) by Wendy Leighton-Porter. A new clue to the...

An ancient book, a mystical and fantastical treehouse, and a slide that leads to a candy shop which masquerades as the entrance to a mysterious and dangerous underground world. Timmy is only eight and he’s endured the pranks of bullies, but he’s not about to...