Robbie Shell’s Bees on the Roof, as the title and beautifully designed cover suggests, is a children’s book about a colony of bees being cultivated by children on the roof of a building. The venue is the Meadow Hotel, where Nick the Head Pastry Chef...

Hannah Bradbury is the heroine in The Ugly Teapot: Book One: Hannah by Fred Holmes. Fourteen years old, Hannah has just lost her world-traveling, danger-provoking, death-defying, genius-inspired photographer father. She is devastated, as he was her hero. As compared to her terribly ordinary waitress mother,...

The Man Who Was A Santa Claus: The Story of Joe and Charlie by Walter Daniels is set against the backdrop of the Christmas season. Joe Tucker has been in a wheelchair after being hit by a car. He loves children and he believes he...

Lucy’s Web: 6 Short Stories About Staying Safe Online by Charles Conway is a book of short stories in which Lucy is learning to use the internet. The book tells readers how to use the internet safely through the stories of eleven-year-old Lucy, and how...

In The Quill Pen by Michelle Isenhoff, thirteen-year-old Micah Randall discovers a magic pen while cleaning the attic of Widow Parsons. Micah does not want to listen to his father’s choice of future for him and decides to help Widow Parsons. When he comes across...

The Gold by Krista Wagner is a fantasy storybook for children revolving around Amanda, a fifth grade student. Amanda is a lonely child. She lost her mother when she was young and she lives with her father and sister. Her father is away at work...

The River Exotic by Grant Oxley is a children’s adventure. It is the story of Thiago, a poor, orphaned boy who struggles to make a living from fishing. While fishing in new waters, he finds an ancient Inca ruin with an inscription about lost gold....

Sophie and Scottie's Adventures of Something's Fishy (The Adventures of Sophie and Scottie) (Volume 2) by Cindy C Murray is a fascinating story that revolves around the adventures of Sophie and Scottie. In this book, readers find them trying to resolve a mystery on a...

The Curse at Pirate Cove: Nikki Landry Swamp Legends is a children’s adventure by Rita Monette. Nikki Landry wants a new bike to replace her damaged one, but Papa can’t afford to buy a new bike for her eleventh birthday. After learning about the legendary...

Billy Knows A Secret: Secrets: Billy Growing Up, Volume 8 is a fiction book for children, grades 4-6 written by James Minter and illustrated by Helen Rushworth. Everybody ends up keeping a secret at some point in their lives. Ant's mum asks Billy and Ant...