The Queen of Ocean Parkway , by Sarvenaz Tash ( September 3, 2024 by Knopf Books for Young Readers),  is a really nice book in the best poss...

A highlight of going to the biennial conference about 20th Century School Girls and Their Books, as I did a few weeks ago, is that there is ...

The Oracle's Door, by Zetta Elliott (September 14, 2024), is a prequel to her Dragons in a Bag series, and though it stands on its own, ...

  I love it when I gently learn bits of history I didn't know, especially while tagging along on a fun treasure hunt with companiable fi...

Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop, by Joshua S. Levy (May 14, 2024, middle grade, Katherine Tegen Books) is a groundhog day type tim...

It's always a happy thing when a favorite author has a new book!  And indeed, Puzzleheart , by Jenn Reese (May 14, 2024, middle grade fa...

The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly (March, 2024, Greenwillow Books) is a delightful and heartwarming middle grade time travel b...

I very much enjoyed meeting Ethan Fairmont and his friends, including the alien they call Cheese in his first outing ( my review ) so I dove...

I loved Matthew Fox's first book, The Sky Over Rebecca , so much that I ordered The Lovely Dark  (July  2023 in the UK, Hodder Children&...

If you are looking for a middle grade ghost story that's spooky and scary but not so horrifying as to be disturbing, Field of Screams , ...

Though I mostly review middle grade sci fi/fantasy here, I do actually read other genres too! And Ways to Build Dreams , by Renée Watson, il...

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

Greg Van Eekhout is one of the authors who gets shelf space in my much beloved, still new and shiny, built-in bookshelf of which this is onl...

Despite not having finished preparing the talk I'm giving tomorrow (on shipwrecks and archaeology, which I've done before but it nee...

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...

I am determined to get back into the swing of blogging now that both kids are back from college and I have a long month ahead with no partic...

The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings #2), by Claribel A. Ortega (May 2, 2023, Scholastic), begins soon after the tumultuous events of the firs...

The McNeills at Rathcapple, by Meta Mayne Reid (1959), is a lovely vintage time travel book set in Ireland, and I wish I'd had it to rea...

My recent middle grade fantasy reading has been mostly mythology infused quests, and although it's great to have such a wealth of divers...

Unicorn Island: Beyond the Portal , by Donna Galanti, illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe (April 4, 2023 by Andrews McMeel Publishing), is the...