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

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 ...

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...

Another very busy week for me, with none of the reviews I wanted to write being written...so here once more is a quick one before I post tod...

It was a nice change for me to read an engrossing YA sci fi story that checked lots of my reading boxes-- Vermilion Sunrise , by Lydia P. Br...

One of the reasons I enjoy reading for the first round of the Cybils Awards is that it puts books in my hands that I might otherwise not hav...

It is always very welcome when a book gives me the unexpected pleasure of having time travel in it, because I am not a plan-in-advance perso...

The Revenge of Zombert, by Kara LaReau (July 2022, Candlewick), is the third installment about a cat who escaped from torment in a lab and ...

Drifters, by Kevin Emerson (May 10, 2022, Walden Pond Press), is a long book (592 pages), but the pages turn quickly, and before I knew it, ...

  Here's another great middle grade sci fi book that read for the Cybils Awards -- The Monster Missions , by Laura Martin (June 1, 2021...

Pixels of You, by Ananth Hirsh  and Yuko Ota (writers), and J.R. Doyle (Artist) : ( February 8th 2022, Amulet Paperbacks) is, I think, the f...

I don't remember any books about kids with superpowers in the comic book sense of the word back when I was an actual middle grade fictio...

One of the fun things about being a panelist for the Cybils Awards is getting review copies of books you've been wanting to read, and al...

The Last Cuentista , by Donna Barba Higuera (October 12th 2021 by Levine Querido), is mind-blowing middle grade science fiction. Halley'...

I very much enjoyed Shane Arbuthnott's first two middle grade books,  Dominion , and  Terra Nova , starring a brilliant girl who challen...

There's a lot more fantasy for middle grade kids (9-12 year olds than there is science fiction, so it's a nice change when one gets ...

If kids surviving un-natural, vicious, creatures and the perils of the natural wilderness is your jam, you must read  Attack of the Killer K...

  I really enjoyed Glitch , by Laura Martin (Harper Collins, June 2020)--not only was there fun time travel, but it was also a school story ...

A mythical Ethiopian empire in space....a deadly enemy that has almost defeated it...a boy who might be its last hope...this is what you wil...

Flood City , by Daniel José Older (Scholastic, middle grade, February 2, 2021), is a wild, and (I say this after much careful consideration)...