In McCall Hoyle’s endearing novel "Stella", a beagle searches for redemption—and her human being. Stella is a service dog who failed to sniff out an explosive at an airport. She feels guilt because her handler suffered in the... Read More

With an appealing mix of spooky suspense and comedy, "Bone Tree" tackles a serious, delicate subject: dealing with the loss of a loved one. Sixth-graders Roman and Elsie are best friends. Tragedy strikes when Roman is diagnosed with... Read More

"Into the Wind" is a poignant novel about an unexpected, enriching friendship between a young boy and an elderly woman. Rusty lives with his family in a New England coastal town. During the summer before he enters sixth grade, he is in... Read More

Eli Brown’s "Oddity" is a delightful, action-packed fantasy featuring a colorful cast and magical trinkets. All Clover knows about her mother is that she died when Clover was a baby, and that she was fascinated with oddities—objects... Read More

In John Peragine’s boisterous middle grade fantasy, a boy undertakes an odyssey to reunite with his family. Thirteen-year-old Max’s father is missing, and his mother has just been abducted, so he joins Captain Cinn and his pirate... Read More

With a mesmerizing vision of life among the stars, wherein space’s endless horizon only seems limited by the expectations of a small, blue-collar community, Rebecca Thorne’s middle grade novel "The Secrets of Star Whales" is deft in... Read More

In Erin Soderberg Downing’s winsome novel "The Great Peach Experiment", a bucket list road trip upends the Peach family’s typical summer plans. Lucy is the sensible older sister of Freddy, who’s ten, artistic, and loves to spout... Read More

The otherworldly fairy tales collected in "Tales by Moons-light" are imaginative and charming. Ruthy Ballard’s imaginative short story collection "Tales by Moons-light" adds a modern to touch to fairy tales. The book introduces Urth, a... Read More