This week's Timeslip Tuesday, The Things We Miss The Things We Miss , by Leah Stecher (middle grade, Bloomsbury, May 2024), gives a self...

Today's Timeslip book is The Other Place , by Nancy L. Robison (1978). Mine, happily picked up at a booksale, turned out to be a review ...

It was a pleasure to revisit Omega Morales in her second adventure-- Omega Morales and the Curse of El Cucuy (Omega Morales, 2)  by Laekan Z...

Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter , by Zoraida Córdova (June 28, 2022, Scholastic) is a fun new middle grade fantasy perfect, just p...

The Patron Thief of Bread , by Lindsay Eager (May 17th 2022, Candlewick) is a heart-warming and heart-wrenching story of a orphan girl's...

In my review of Unicorn Island: The Secret of Lost Luck , the first book in Donna Galanti's series for elementary school readers, I sa...

It sure was fun to revisit Peter Pan's Neverland in Sisters of the Neversea , by Cynthia Leitich Smith   (Heartdrum, June 2021)!  It pl...

I find, as I get older, that there are fewer books that keep me reading past my bedtime.  So it's always a great treat when that happens...

If you, or a member of the "target audience" of 9-12 year olds, is in the mood for a fast fun magical adventure of plucky girl and...

Just up the street from me is a strange little shop that sells junk, ostensibly raising money for animals.  As a used book hunter, it is bot...

This past week my domestic tasks and my 7000 daily fitness steps for which my insurance will reward me ($25 a month, aka 2 books) have been ...

The Ash House , by Angharad Walker (Chicken House, February 2, 2021), is a disturbing, gripping middle grade story of kids in a sanctuary, a...

Back in the middle of April, I read Nevertell, by Katharine Orton (Walker Books US, April 14, 2020, with much enjoyment! It's ...

When You Trap a Tiger , by Tae Keller (Random House, middle grade, January 2020), is a lovely story of family, and love, and loss, and how...

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...

The Clockwork Ghost , by Laura Ruby (middle grade/YA, Walden Pond Press, May 15 2019), continues the adventure begun in The Shadow Ciphe r...

Order of the Majestic , by Matt Myklusch (middle grade, Aladdin, May 7 2019), is one to offer kids dreaming of magic, and hoping it will f...

Outwalkers , by Fiona Shaw (David Fickling Books, Middle Grade, Feb 26, 2019), is set in a future England that closed its boarders after t...

Flight of the Bluebird , by Kara LaReau, illustrated with great charm by Jen Hill, is the third and final book of The unintentional Advent...

Snared: Escape to the Above , by Adam Jay Epstein (Imprint, June 2018), is a fun adventure fantasy for the young end of middle grade; if y...