Jokes are funny and exciting and kids of all ages love telling jokes, or pulling a joke on someone. Bob Phillips has helped kids find more jokes to add to their collection in his new book, “Zany and Brainy Good Clean Jokes for Kids.” In...

"The King’s Challenge: A Quest for Eternal Life" by Lucas Zahn is a fantasy adventure for adults and young adults. Matthew has interesting dreams. He recounts those adventures about soldiers and orks to his fellow pupils at school. But now freshly graduated, he has a...

"The Diary of Arnmore" by Loulou Szal is a timeless fantasy. Life is orderly and calm for Rebekah and her brothers in Torellin until an intimidating stranger looms out of the darkness one night demanding shelter at their inn. But this is only the first...

Robin Lamont's "Wright For America" feeds the hunger for mystery, adventure, passion, and comedy in one extraordinary story. The action centers around the believable talk show host Pryor Wright, who spews venomous ultra-conservative tirades which our protagonist Maren believes contributed to the injuries inflicted on...

In a literary world rife with paranormal characters and situations, "The King's Ransom" offers a refreshing and realistic approach to pre-teen medieval reading material. The three young protagonists come from different levels of society: a prince, a blacksmith's apprentice, and an orphan. When their friend,...

“Dinosaur Lake” by Kathryn Meyer Griffith is a very well-told and well-written tale of “what if”, which, quite by coincidence, takes place in my home town. The tale is told of a remarkable series of events in which minor earthquakes released small amounts of magma...

Lemony Snicket has trained in a very special place to be a very special person. In "Who Could That Be at This Hour" by Lemony Snicket, Snicket has chosen a bottom-of-the-line mentor so that he can pretty much do his own investigative thing. In order...

Here we have a very inventive Christmas book for elementary age children. It will entertain them and make them wish they too could save Christmas and be heroes for a year. I enjoyed this story and plot and so will your kids. It is a...

Have you read the reports of citizens petitioning the White House for their various states' secession from the United States? If you haven't, it is probably because they are small, unorganized groups of people using a pre-written petition circulated on the Internet. What if some...

"Floats the Dark Shadow" by Yves Fey transports the reader back in time to 1897 France. Our tale begins in a dungeon where someone was impersonating the owner of the castle. It appears he unexpectedly found a child, bound with ropes, hanging from the ceiling....

Sarelle had been with vampire Danial for several months. She had oathed to him but did not know that the potions he was taking could make her pregnant. Then she miscarried and she could not endure his betrayals, and the knowledge that he would not...

Cassie's father's security company was picked to safeguard a new drug at Bristol Pharmaceutical company. Just when Cassie thinks all was secure, the information is stolen by an employee of Bristol. She is removed from the case but continued to ponder on the crime. Cassie...

Parker was a reporter for a magazine. One day, as he was leaving for work, he found a homeless woman named Cleo asleep in the back of his car. Later he tried to find her and got beaten up. He wrote an article about her...

Faith couldn’t stand the pain of losing Trent anymore. She used a forgetting spell that wiped out the last six months of her memories. She was left no longer aware that she was a witch and had vampire and werewolf friends. She woke up in...

Dr. Robert Rose shares his most challenging role in life, that of a caregiver. Robert and Marie Rose had been married almost forty years when they heard the diagnosis. Marie had scored 18 out of 30 on the test administered by the neurologist; anything under...

RSDS is a horrible affliction. The brain refuses to turn off the pain that can inhabit any part of or almost all of the body. Mary Jane Gonzales' brief book "In the Blink of an Eye: My Life with RSDS" does an excellent job of...

"Fruit of My Labor" is a book to enjoy at any level. It is actually a small study of various types of poetry. The author Joe Frey teaches with his broad array of examples such as Haiku, Caligram, Alliteration, and tongue twisters and limericks. This...

"Death Comes in Pairs" by Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton is a true “Cowboy Caper”. The story takes place in 1888 in the small town of Ellis Crossing. Jack Liege is the cowboy hero and the suspected bad guy. Jack arrives in town after being...

"Mind over Mind" by Karina Fabian grips you from the first page. Eighteen year old Deryl - or Ydrel as he prefers to be called - hears voices in his head that make him act in certain ways, and because of this he has been...

Haunted by his wife’s death -- a suicide -- and the day he found her dead and cold, floating in the lake behind his house, Alex Crawford has spent almost two years longing to escape from the guilt of his wife’s death. After writing what...