I was tremendously pleased when my sister came to visit me this past weekend, bringing with her a copy of The Magical Cupboard , by Jane Lou...

Bone Talk , by Candy Courlay (middle grade, David Fickling Books, November 5 2019 in the US), is set in the mountains of the Philippines i...

Thanks to Betsy at Fuse #8 who has been mentioning it as a favorite for years* The Winged Girl of Knossos was for many years a title I l...

The Ninth Day , by Ruth Tenzer Feldman (Ooligan Press, YA, 2015), is one of three linked time travel books, the others being Blue Thread ...

Blue Thread , by Ruth Tenzer Feldman (Ooligan Press, 2012) is historical fiction about the women's suffrage movement in 1912 Portland ...

The Girl in the Torch , by Robert Sharenow (Balzer + Bray, mg, May 2015) In the early 20th century, Sarah and her mother leave their hom...

I was very taken with The Detective's Assistant , by Kate Hannigan (Little, Brown, April 2015, middle grade); plot,character, and writ...

Children of Winter , by Berlie Doherty (middle grade, 1985, reissued in the UK in 2007; that's the cover shown at left), for Timeslip ...

There are not many fun YA novels of intrigue and conspiracy (with a smidge of romance) set in the reign of George I.  In fact,   Palace of...

A Spark Unseen , by Sharon Cameron (Scholastic, 2013), is the sequel to The Dark Unwinding , and continues the adventures of young Katharin...

The Lost Kingdom , by Matthew Kirby (Scholastic, September 2013, Middle Grade). It is the mid-18th century in a (just slightly) alternat...

How I Became a Ghost, a Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle (The RoadRunner Press, June 2013, 160 pages, Middle Grade and up) is a...

Templar , by Jordan Mechner, illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland (First Second, Juley 2013, 408 pages) is an utterly stunning, g...

Stolen Magic (Atheneum, April 2, 2013, middle grade) by Stephanie Burgis, is the third book in a series about an incorrigible Regency gir...

Yeah for reading books that have been sitting around the house, possibly crying in corners, for far too long! Finally I have read Sarah Ze...

The Indigo Pheasant (ChiZine, Oct. 2012) is a multi-cultural historical fantasy, with a complicated alternate history/religious bent, wri...

I am writing from New York, where I am busily attending Kidlitcon.  Yesterday I attended two lovely publisher previews, at Random House and ...

Look Ahead, Look Back , by Annette Laing (Confusion Press, 2012), is the latest adventure of three time travelling kids from Georgia.  W...

Wowzers (and bang goes my resolve to write coldly crisp, analytical reviews of great intellectual rigor).   But when a book knocks your so...

Splendors and Glooms , by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick, August 28, 2012, middle grade) In late 19th century London, a lonely rich girl na...