If you are looking for a middle grade spooky read for the Halloween season, Exit Nowhere , by Juliana Brandt (Aladin, Sept 4, 2024) is perfe...

  Falling of a ladder earlier this week, and the rather painful recovery that still continues, meant I didn't get any posts written....s...

Another very busy week for me, with none of the reviews I wanted to write being written...so here once more is a quick one before I post tod...

I loved Matthew Fox's first book, The Sky Over Rebecca , so much that I ordered The Lovely Dark  (July  2023 in the UK, Hodder Children&...

I very much enjoyed Ghostcloud , by Michael Mann, the first book in the duology (? maybe there are more adventures to come) that now continu...

It was a pleasure to revisit Omega Morales in her second adventure-- Omega Morales and the Curse of El Cucuy (Omega Morales, 2)  by Laekan Z...

If you are looking for a middle grade ghost story that's spooky and scary but not so horrifying as to be disturbing, Field of Screams , ...

Greg Van Eekhout is one of the authors who gets shelf space in my much beloved, still new and shiny, built-in bookshelf of which this is onl...

So the bulk of my reading these days is middle grade fantasy/sci fi for the Cybils Awards, and it never ceases to amaze me how the familiar ...

Eden's Everdark , by Karen Strong ( S eptember 6th 2022,Simon & Schuster), is a creepy ghostly middle grade horror story; but that b...

I am back from vacation--a week and a half in Montana, mostly spent volunteering with the Forest Service fixing up some old buildings at a h...

  Yay me!  I have my Timeslip Tuesday book read-- The Sea of Always (Thirteen Witches #2), by Jodi Lynn Anderson.   It's the second boo...

Freddie vs. the Family Curse , by Tracy Badua (middle grade, May 3, 2022, Clarion Books) is a great one for readers who relish the intrusion...

If you (or other young readers in your life) are looking to make spring spookier, Monsters in the Mist , by Juliana Brandt (May 3, 2022, Sou...

If fall puts you in the mood for haunting stories of old graveyards and ghosts, with perhaps the power of love to transcend death if only fo...

Ophie's Ghosts (May 2021 by Balzer + Bray) is Justina Ireland's first middle grade book, and it is a lovely immersive read, blendin...

2021 is full of great mg sci fi and fantasy books, as the substantial pile of books (around 14) I have checked out from my library demonstra...

The good thing about being a Cybils panelist is reading lots and lot of great new books; the bad thing (if you are me, which I am) is not...

This week's Timeslip Tuesday book, A Stitch in Time , by Kelley Armstrong (October 2020, Subterranean Press), is one for grown-ups--alon...

The Girl and the Ghost , by Hanna Alkaf (middle grade, Harper Collins, August 2020), was on my radar for ages, but this year I've been h...