The Divine Proverb of Streusel by Sara Brunsvold is filled with tasty sounding recipes and sage advice. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one is really well done. The author weaves a tale …
Knowing You by Tracie Peterson is the third and final installment of the Pictures of the Heart series. This historical series takes place in 1909 during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Reading th…
The School for Invisible Boys has a creative premise and is packed with action and mystery. A reader can take all the action at face value, but there are layers of symbolism here for those who want …
No Time Like Now has a cool, starting premise. The publisher's note bills it as a twist on A Christmas Carol and while it does have some of that structure in the first part of the story, the middle p…
The Dark Fable is a thrilling heist adventure written in the vein of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows.
Evie Wilder has been orphaned since the age of eight, when her father apparently murdered her mot…
Richard Osman mixes it up a bit in this latest installment of The Thursday Murder Club Series. First, he has not just murder happening, but other crimes, too, that muddy the waters. Second, the murd…
This book was thoroughly enjoyable and a delightful discovery! The storyline and world-building are fairly straightforward and not particularly complicated, but my oh my, the character and the concep…
Gender Queer is a memoir that explores the emotional journey and struggles surrounding being transgender. Having experienced it first-hand, the author powerfully conveys the depth of feeling and the m…
In the second book in this series, author Megan Reyes almost immediately reverses the gathering of the four young heroes from the first book and sends them all their separate ways. There is a lot of …
Gordon Korman continues to be a fabulous middle grade author. He is good at creating characters and authentic situations and conversations. Recently writing female characters seems to be in vogue so…
Love adventure, hi-tech gadgets, and learning made fun? The Explorer Academy brings kids from all over the world to teach them about conservation, mind-blowing tech, and how to safely explore this ama…
Tracie Peterson continues following the lives of the Camera Girls in Finding Us. Finding Us is the second book in the Pictures of the Heart historical fiction series. It is recommended that readers be…
