Young readers can hunt for clues and solve mysteries along with a comical ghost and his young friend in Watchman William: Ghost Detective. William was a night watchman during the time of Elizabeth I. Over four hundred years later, his... Read More

Thea Eide, a beautiful young Norwegian woman seeking a better life, immigrates to Gunflint, Minnesota, to work on her aunt and uncle’s farm. By the time she reaches her destination, a place that looks surprisingly like the home she... Read More

When her mother’s second cousin, the cultured Linus Lancaster, asks for fourteen-year-old Ginny’s hand in marriage early in "Kind One", Ginny eagerly accepts. Bored with her farm, her parents, and her limited prospects in the... Read More

“It didn’t matter to Ray if they were for or against the war. He just couldn’t take listening to someone who hadn’t been there. They didn’t belong to the same fraternity, the one that had taken his youth and made him bitter... Read More

If only we knew then what we know now, everything would be different. Or would it? Most of the contributors to this terrific book of letters from young adult authors to their teenage selves come to the opposite conclusion; that is, no... Read More

Journalist places readers directly in Vietnam in fictionalized story of a woman covering the war. The Vietnam War attracted journalists with determination and guts, yet rarely were women audacious enough to pursue this dangerous,... Read More

With "Ratrigues and the Invisible Intelligence", the third book in a series, humorist Graham Deeks imagines Cape Town, South Africa, through the eyes of a roguish rat named Ratrigues and his unlikely traveling companions, which include... Read More