The Ship in the Garden , by Zetta Elliott (middle grade, independently published, 104 pages), this week's Timeslip Tuesday book, is many...

  A Game of Noctis , by Deva Fagan (April 9, 2024 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers), is a beautifully gripping, thought-provoking, and fu...

This week's Timeslip Tuesday book is  The Color of Sound , by Emily Barth Isler (March 2024,   Carolrhoda), is a really absorbing book a...

Sona and the Golden Beasts  (March 5, 2024, Quill Tree Books)   is Rajani LaRocca's first other world fantasy, and having read and enjoy...

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...

My first debut middle grade fantasy of 2024-- The Curse of Eelgrass Bog , by Mary Averling (Jan 2, 2024, Razorbill)! And it was a good one. ...

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

  If you are in the mood for a fun middle school ground-hog day timeslip,  Time after Time (Best Wishes #3) by Sarah Mlynowski and Christin...

It's a pleasure to be a stop on the blog tour for Not Quite a Ghost , by Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press)!  I have been a keen looker-forwa...

You might think that The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto , a middle grade fantasy by Adrianna Cuevas (April 2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is ab...

If magical cats are a thing you like, Nimbus , by Jan Eldredge September 2023, Balzer + Bray) is an obvious and excellent choice!   Nimbus w...

Dogtown , by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, illustrated by Wallace West (younger middle grade, September 19, 2023, Feiwel &...

Today's Timeslip Tuesday, Vivian Lantz's Second Chances , by Kathryn Ormsbee (middle grade, June 2023 HarperCollins) is a Groundhog&...

My five star goodreads review for T hree Tasks for a Dragon , by Eoin Colfer, illustrated by P.J. Lynch (October 3, 2023, Candlewick), is as...

It's almost time for me to post my regular Sunday round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi, but I am sneaking in a quick review of  A...

 "If it was possible to somehow glow mockingly , Nack was pretty sure Asperides was doing it." Oh goodness, I enjoyed The Demon S...

"House fantasy" is one of my favorite subgenres (perhaps because I spend every day living the fantasy that someday my historic hou...

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...

A tasty one for the week's Timeslip Tuesday-- A Spoonful of Time, by Flora Ahn (April 11, 2023, Quirk Books), in which the time travel m...

Yay me, for getting my Timeslip Tuesday act back together!  With a good one, no less-  The Rhythm of Time , by Questlove and S.A. Crosby   (...