All the Impossible Things , by Lindsay Lackey (middle grade, Roaring Brook Press, September 2019), is a story about a magical girl finding...

One of my favorite types of books as a child (and grownup) are those involving a lonely kid (mostly girls) finding peaceful refuges--ala T...

Tall Story , by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books, 2010 in the UK, 2011 in the US, middle grade/young adult, 304 pages) Andi’s 16 year-...

After my last fiction review, of a book of a much more, um, mature type than I usually read (Bleeding Violet, a book I liked, but which sur...

Ninth Ward , by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010, Little Brown, middle grade on up, 217 pages) is a book that is just plain unequivocally Good, in...