Over at Middle Grade March you can find a lovely long list I made of MG speculative fiction books coming out this spring!  I'm sure I m...

I tried.  I really did, to read The Finisher , by David Baldacci (Scholastic, 2014, upper MG/YA).   But I can't go on--119 pages was p...

I have been blessed with the ability to make bad puns, and when you have such a gift, it should be shared.  My bad Greek god and goddess pun...

Hilda and the Troll , by Luke Pearson, is a hardcover reprint from Flying Eye Books (Sept. 2013) of the first graphic novel about an adven...

Way back in January of 2010, I reviewed Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains , by Laurel Snyder.  Here's what I said back then, which yo...

The Mysterious Manuscript , by Lars Jakobsen (Graphic Universe 2012), is Book 1 of Mortensen's Escapades, a graphic novel series for o...

I am currently in the middle of four books I am not enjoying--I have started to question too much, to talk back snippily to the words on t...

Another week, another round-up!  Let me know if I missed your post. The Reviews: Canary in a Coal Mine, by Madelyn Rosenberg, at The Boo...

Watermusic , by Sarah Sargent (1986, back when a book could have as few as 120 pages), is the second book I finished for today's middl...

Today I'm taking part in the readathon that's kicking off this year's Middle Grade March, and finally, after months of book g...

I do so enjoy empiling books, and this evening I gathered a nice little stack together for the Middle Grade March Readathon , which is tomo...

Sherlock, Lupin, and Me: the Dark Lady , by "Irene Adler" (Capstone, 2014, first published in Italy in 2011) is the story of thr...

Yes, it's nice to have a warm wood burning stove in the living room, but it sure does result in a maddening cluster of family, drawn, no...

With some time travel books, there's just no point in worrying about the historical accuracy of it all--the time travel serves nicely ...

Way back in November I went to Kidlitcon in Austen, and had the pleasure of meeting Nikki Loftin .  This was lovely in and of itself, in p...

Welcome to this week's round-up--I didn't have time to do much scrounging, so may well have missed things--please let me know! The ...

Spell Robbers , by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic 2014) is about a boy, Ben, who discovers he has preternatural powers (in this case, the ab...

Round about the end of last September, I happened to read a tweet from Liz in which she shared the happy news that she beat a level of Candy...

Sometimes it's easy to tell when a ghost is a ghost, and to say "not time travel."  Some hauntings are trickier, though...an...