I'm always a sucker for magical books within books (twice the bookish fun for the reading!), and the 16th-century tome that gives its ...

If you are looking for a book to give a handy tenish-year-old this summer, especially if you are anxious for a book that will lure in the ...

Books like The Truth Against the World , by Sarah Jamila Stevenson (Flux, June 2014, upper Middle Grade/younger YA), are exactly the reas...

When I was offered a review copy of Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture (with 25 Projects) by Kathy Ceceri (Nomad Press, Ma...

It is a very gratifying thing, though mixed with some sadness, when a much enjoyed series comes to a satisfying close.    Still Life , the...

Cleopatra in Space, Book 1: Target Practice , a hundred and seventy page full color graphic novel suitable for young and less young by Mik...

In the late 19th century, a boy named Will, the son of a humble railroad worker, finds himself hammering in the gold spike that finishes t...

Turning on a Dime , by Maggie Dana (Pageworks Press, May 13, 2014), is a fine example of time travel for the horse-loving girl! Samant...

Question:  Can one really recommend a book about a Chinese dragon in which the dragon has wings?  Or does that throw the whole story so of...

If you have on hand a nine or ten year old girl who loves mythical creatures, RUN to get a hold of Dragon Girl: The Secret Valley , by Jef...

The Eighth Day , by Dianne K. Salerni (HarperCollins, middle grade, April 22, 2014) Basic premise:  13-year-old kid with new-found powe...

The One Safe Place , by Tania Unsworth  (Algonquin Young Readers, middle grade, April 29, 2014) Climate change has brought North America...

Saving Lucas Biggs , by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague (HarperCollins, middle grade, April 29, 2014), opens with an innocent man be...

Oh goodness, if you (or a young reader you know) are at all a fan of dolls, and dollhouses, and making tiny stuff, and like excellent stor...

There are retold fairy tales, there are fractured fairy tales, and then there are stories that might once have said hi to fairy tales in p...

Mouseheart , by Lisa Fiedler, generously illustrated by Vivienne To (Simon and Schuster, middle grade, in stores May 20, 2014) is the fa...

Sometimes a reader just has to ask "does the sentient dinosaur boy actually add anything to the story?"   In the case of Ancient...

Today is the third day of the WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, and it is the Day of Action, which is to say, the day of buying books, and askin...

I read The Dyerville Tales  (Walden Pond Press, middle grade, April 2014) avidly, with interest and enjoyment (though not true love), and ...

At first glance, In the Keep of Time , by Margaret J. Anderson (1977) seems like a standard time travel story--four siblings, unwillingly ...