“Martin McMillan and the Secret of the Ruby Elephant” by Elaine Russell is the second book in the author’s middle-grade adventure series. It follows “Martin McMillan and the Lost Inca City”. Ms. Russell seems to have made a great deal of research in the writing...

Across the River by Elaine Russell, is powerful reading. It is the harrowing tale of a family’s escape from the horrors of the Vietnam war. At the time, Nou is a child. It is her family's story. Freedom is when the Americans leave the country....

Montana in A Minor by Elaine Russell is a story with a youthful vibe. Emily Lopez has a lot of things happening in her life and she is not yet seventeen. Her boyfriend breaks up with her and, to top it all, her father who...

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...