Johnny Cassidy's THE CONSEQUENCES OF VICTORIA GREY (The Amulet Exposure) toys with interesting ideas, but the story is too vaguely executed and arcane to be...

S. T. Cameron’s PHANTOM EXPRESS is a well-plotted, exciting addition to today's canon of middle-grade historical adventure stories.

Macall S. Robertson's WISHING ROCKS: Find Your Anchor's message is earnest and heartfelt, but its plot is slight.

Simple to follow, with frequent scenes of action and tension, ST Cameron's INCA WRAITH is a perfect quick read for middle-graders enthralled by the past.

Elizabeth R. Jensen's THE HAWK’S FLIGHT (Book Two of the Three Brothers Trilogy) is a beautifully designed and thoroughly entertaining sword and sorcery fantasy that...

With a compelling main character, TIME PROBLEMS is an interesting, if chaotic and contrived, middle grade coming-of-age novel.

Featuring an ever-resourceful eighth grader, a temporal warrior who’s the last of his kind, and a healthy dose of time travel, Andrew M. Nehring’s DAVID...

Playful, humorous, heartbreaking, and fast-paced, Melanie Joy Mezzancello's LOVE SNAGGS blends adventure with heartfelt sentiment to illustrate the limits to which both a dog and...

THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN SHOELACE is an exciting story for middle-school readers that plays for laughs more than swashbuckling high seas adventure, with an endearing...

R.L. Fink's MICKIE MCKINNEY: Boy Detective, The Case of the Absent Answers is a clever, fast-paced novella introducing a schoolboy private eye and setting the...

Captivating sensory imagery elevates Terry Lee Caruthers' well-researched historical story, THE FAITHFUL DOG, featuring a lovable canine protagonist, whose minimal anthropomorphization endears and intrigues and...

Twists and turns abound in Scott Wagner’s FINN O’BRIEN AND THE SMALL GODS, a superb series debut pairing magic and Celtic folklore with a timeless...