There is something horrific going on at 250 Butternut Street. It’s so horrific, in fact, that people in the small Connecticut town of Meridian are actually being scared to death. And if the townspeople aren’t captivated enough with... Read More

Much to his horror, The Count of Flanders’ first child is born female. Marguerite of Male’s existence seems to defy her lovely mother’s assurances that her child has been born “for love, good fortune, and happiness,” and from... Read More

Billed as a young-adult, coming-of-age story, Bonnie Turner’s novel deals with some pretty mature adult themes. Packed with action and adventure and set in the Canadian Arctic in the late 1930s, the intriguing plot blends Inuit... Read More

Despite having wisdom that can often be applied to reality, some people firmly believe that folk and fairy tales are in the realm of fiction and fantasy. Some might even discredit them entirely, or write them off as stories merely for... Read More

"Pick Up Game" is a unique collection of short stories, with each one picking up where the previous one left off, and written by a different author and from a different character’s perspective. While occasionally confusing because of... Read More

With "Beasts of New York", the world’s most immortalized city acquires yet another fascinating identity. On the surface of this adventure story is a landscape populated by wild animals—largely squirrels, rats, cats, and birds, from... Read More

…Archie felt he had been transported back in time to some primitive culture. It dawned on him just how easy it was to shed the …ornamentation of ‘civilized’ life. Archie went from a privileged, middle-class boy to a stranger in a... Read More

Ten-year-old Mallory McDonald knows just how to solve the very serious problem she faces; it should be simple to get a boy to notice her. But somehow, things don’t work as planned: her brother won’t help her, and her grades are... Read More