We first met Kelcie Murphy in the middle grade fantasy  Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for Unbreakable Arts  (2022) when she (much to her ast...

I was very impressed by Eden Royce's middle grade fantasy, Root Magic , and so was naturally excited about her new book, Conjure Island ...

I've read lots and lots of good books so far this year, but this past week, for the first  time in ages, I started one after supper ( Se...

  I just finished The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy , by Anne Ursu, and I think it is her best book yet (which is saying a lot!) It'...

The Ash House , by Angharad Walker (Chicken House, February 2, 2021), is a disturbing, gripping middle grade story of kids in a sanctuary, a...

Happy release day eve to Amari and the Night Brothers , by B.B. Alston (Jan 19, 2020)! It's the start of a middle grade fantasy series t...

Wishes and Wellingtons , by Julie Berry (Sourcebooks, October 2020, first published as an Audible Original in 2018), is a middle grade fanta...

The Secret of White Stone Gate , by Julia Nobel (Sourcebooks Young Readers, March 3 2020) is just as exciting a read as the first book in ...

The Mystwick School of Musicraft , by Jessica Khoury, is a fun read for those who like magical school stories with determined kids finding...

A Problematic Paradox , by Eliot Sappingfield  (Putnam, middle grade, Jan. 2018), is a great pick for kids who enjoy wild and whacky sci f...

I'm as confident as can be that if I were to make a list of my five favorite books of the year in December, The Queen of Blood , by Sa...

So back in The Iron Trial  (the link takes you to my review, a favorite of mine) the first book of the Magisterium series by Holly Black ...

Ok, yes well.  This is one of those Timeslip Tuesday books where to identify it as such is a spoiler, but to not identify it as such fails...

The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium Book 2), by Holly Back and Cassandra Clare (Scholastic, MG, Sept 2015), continues the story of three you...

Erin Bow's YA books are not exactly comfy--the heroines of her stories (Plain Kate, Sorrow's Knot) must navigated complicated worl...

It's  my pleasure today to be a stop on the blog tour for The Dungeoneers , by John David Anderson (Walden Pond Press, MG, June 23, 20...

I am on a strict mission not to bring new books (bought or borrowed) into the home until I have read down my tbr pile.  But at the same ti...

Mind Games , by Kiersten White (HarperTeen, Feb 2013, YA), is a book so gripping that it held my attention while I read almost all of it c...

I very much enjoyed The Name of the Star , the first book in Maureen Johnson's Shades of London series.  It's the story of a souther...