“What do you want from me? I’m nothing! I’m nobody!” screams thirteen-year-old Jessica Ross when confronted by the specter of Grace O’Malley, a true-life sixteenth-century pirate queen. Despite her protest, Jessica is indeed... Read More

It all started out as a joke. A local sports columnist in Bloomington, Indiana had hoped to get people amped up about bringing a minor-league baseball team to town someday. But that joke turned into a very real effort by the residents to... Read More

When sixteen-year-old Jodi Greer goes for a walk outside, she finds her childhood friend Neil Moran sleeping near their private retreat. She enters his dream, at first trying to awaken him so they can return home, but he is unable to... Read More

In this novella, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a dowry. Unfortunately, Juli wants to be alone with her books, and thinks that amassing household goods for a... Read More

This stimulating mystery contains a novel historical twist that plays into the main characters dramatic need for acceptance as she draws upon her inner strength in some unexpected ways. Fifth-grader Bailey Fish is transplanted from her... Read More

My child, fear is nothing more than concern for oneself, declares Grandmama to the hero of this young adult fantasy novel. True courage, on the other hand, she says, comes from concern for others. Aidan sees himself as anything but... Read More

Carnegie Medal-winner Mal Peet has accomplished something amazing with his latest novel "Exposure"; inspired by Shakespeare’s bleak classic, Othello, he reveals the humanity that lies beneath two-dimensional celebrity. In the rise and... Read More

“We are always happy when people live, ain’t we?” says a woman to a young boy who is desperately searching for the elephant he believes will lead him to his long lost sister. The simplicity and relevance of this statement resonates... Read More