From starlight to snowflake from an ornament of the wizard Merlin to the finger of an eleven-year-old boy the magic begins. A week before Christmas Mitchell —who only wants a snowboard in his stocking— gets the ride of his life... Read More

If I could start one heart from breaking If I could ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson’s life-affirming and eloquent reflective poem is the... Read More

Patricia G. Penny’s Not Just Proms & Parties series of short novels is aimed at reluctant readers and ESL students, but the books are suitable for any teenage girl with a busy schedule. Only 140 pocket-sized pages long, Emily’s... Read More

William Manchee’s Tarizon: The Liberator (Book One of the Tarizon Trilogy) (Top Publications, 978-1-929976-48-5) follows a civil war between a malevolent totalitarian world government and a fairly benevolent totalitarian world... Read More

In "Shifty" (Tricycle Press, 978-1-58246-257-8), Lynn E. Hazen’s title character (call him Soli, please) is a pragmatically adaptable foster child of fifteen who roams San Francisco in his guardian’s van without a driver’s license.... Read More

Christina Kilbourne’s "They Called Me Red" (Lobster Press, 978-1-897073-88-9) reveals what’s worse than a thirteen-year-old’s first job of washing gory slaughterhouse floors. When Devon’s father falls for Lily, a Vietnamese... Read More

"Child of All Nations", (Overlook Press, 978-1-59020-099-5) written by the exiled German novelist Irmgard Keun in 1938, was recently translated into English by Michael Hofmann. It follows the hotel-to-hotel nomadism of a wide-eyed girl... Read More

In case you’ve missed the news, Milo J. Wright is running for president! For more information, visit his Website at www.writeinwright.com or call him at 555-8976.\ \If you are interested in having your lawn mowed by J&M Mowing, you... Read More