I read and reread Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales as a child, with more morbid fascination than true enjoyment, although I did ap...

I first heard about The Destiny of Minou Moonshine , by Gita Ralleigh, when I was compiling a list of debut middle grade fantasy books for...

Elsetime, by Eve McDonnell (June 2020, Everything With Words), is a must read for time travel fans (and a very good read for middle grade fa...

I just gave five stars on Goodreads to Healer and Witch , by Nancy Werlin (mg* Candlewick, April 12, 2022).  I am chary with my stars--only ...

Root Magic , by Eden Royce (Walden Pond, January 2021), is a must-read middle grade fantasy book of 2021! It's a gripping mix of histori...

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...

In Anya and the Dragon , by Sofiya Pasternack (2019), we were introduced to an alternate medieval Russia where magic is real, and saw young ...

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

The Clockwork Crow , by Catherine Fisher, is the sort of mg fantasy I think I love best!  The lucky folks in the UK got to read this in Oc...

Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a beloved classic, a story of a brave girl on a heroic quest that's sign-posted b...

Nevertell , by Katharine Orton (Walker Books US, April 14, 2020), is a rare example of middle grade historical fantasy, something I'...

The Book of Secrets , and The Book of Answers , by A.L. Tait (together comprising the Ateban Cipher duology, Kane Miller, 2019 in the US), t...

The 48 , by Donna Hosie (Holiday House, October 2018) is a fun time-travel story that will especially appeal to fans of Tudor England!  I ...

There is a special fun that comes when reading a book in which it's clear the author enjoyed the books nifty premise immensely (or at...

I did not know, going into it, that The Book of Boy , by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Greenwillow, middle grade, Feb. 2018) is in fact not st...

The Tombs , by Deborah Schaumberg (Harper Teen, Feb 20 2018), is a tense and atmospheric story set in an alternate 19th-century New York, ...

The Dollmaker of Krakow , by R.M. Romero (Delacorte, middle grade, Sept. 2017) is a haunting historical fantasy set in WW II that has jus...

Chainbreaker , by Tara Sim (Sky Pony Press, Jan. 2 2018), is the sequel to 2016's Timekeeper ( my review ), which was also a Timeslip ...

Today's the US release day for Dragonfly Song , by Wendy Orr (Pajama Press)-- a lovely middle grade historical fantasy about a girl wh...