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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...
A useful, informative, and inspiring text for preteens and teen, ROOTS IN IRAN offers a wide range of intelligent, creative, and determined female role models,...
LOUIE AND THE DICTATOR is an impactful and heartwarming story about a boy learning to live with OCD during the COVID-19 pandemic that may empower...
An imaginative and energetic fantasy novel, FEVER DREAMS AND THE END OF ALL THINGS draws the reader along with its teenage protagonists into a colorful...