Author Peter Jay Black brings Robin Hood into the modern age with computers, parkour, and MacGyver-like ingenuity in his latest novel and first in a series Urban Outlaws. This exciting, action-pa…
Maggie Hall, debut author of The Conspiracy of Us, initially asks a lot of her readers. The reader is asked to make a enormous leap in accepting the plausibility of protagonist Avery's initial decisi…
Kalahari by Jessica Khoury is an adventure/thriller, a (light) science fiction story, and, probably most importantly, a survival story. The setting is fabulous, the characters are likeable,…
What makes a man? What kind of man will I be? Those two questions solely occupy thirteen year old Oskari’s mind as he sets off into the woods of his Finnish homeland. Oskari neve…
Solomon Snow always knew he was not like the rest of his family. The day he learns he was, in fact, left on their doorstep as a babe he sets out with some unlikely friends in search of the …
Dauntless is the first of three books planned for the Valiant Hearts series by Dinal L. Sleiman. Apparently all books in the series will focus on strong female characters filling …
Rebels of the Kasbah is pure adventure--think Saturday matinee poured from the screen to the page. Although the dialogue and prose are a bit stiff at times, oh baby, this book is all about …
Young adult author Victoria Scott breathes life into her latest series, Fire & Flood. The first book in the installment is entitled by the same name. Fire and flood: two nouns that…
New York Times bestselling author of not one, but two series (Heist Society & Gallagher Girls), Ally Carter is basically the “teen dream” of young adult novelists. Now presenting he…
Best-selling author of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer takes readers on a flight they're sure to fancy in his riveting novel Airman. Not an aviation enthusiast? No problem, Airman o…
The Princess in Black is a charming tale by husband-and-wife writing team Shannon and Dean Hale. Readers will instantly be drawn to heroine Princess Magnolia, as well as the book's colorful layou…
I have had this book on my "to-read" list for a long time. It always takes me a while to finally reach for titles on my list that are children's books, although I don't know why, because I often find …
