Haunting and inspiring reflection, Endangered by Eliot Schrefer's novel deserves the high-praise it has received. This young adult contemporary book was a compelling read and it linger…
Mortal Heart is the final installment in the His Fair Assassins Trilogy and is meant to give Annith her story. However, Annith has to share her story with the wrap-up of the series, as the autho…
Alternate history fans will love this book! And with some sci-fi elements this book will appeal to a large audience. For readers who enjoyed the TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow, The Only Thing to Fe…
There are some quite attractive elements in the middle grade novel Shipwreck Island: the Survivor-Robinson Crusoe feel, the adventure set-up, the mysteriousness, and characters that will appeal to bo…
This novel is an exciting read from start to finish. It is full of all sorts of disasters that everyone hopes they will never have to be a part of, and it is quite the ride to imagine all of those dis…
A Promise to Protect by Patricia Bradley brings readers back to Logan Point, a small Mississippi town. Those unfamiliar with the Logan Point series will not feel left behind at all, even th…
Brian's Winter is a result of fan mail, or rather fans that thought Gary Paulsen let his protagonist off too easy in his award-winning Hatchet. (Mmm, maybe we should all write authors …
Memory Maze is the second book of Gordon Korman's The Hypnotists series. Second installments in a series can be difficult to keep at the same pace as the first, but Korman do…
In The Boundless, Kenneth Oppel does what he does best--create an adventure story with a strong male lead. (If you have a guy reader in your household, then you should put Mr. Oppel at the …
This book is an interesting read told from the point of view of three of the main characters--two in "present day" and one in the past. The way the author chose to tell the story from different viewpo…
SYLO by D.J. MacHale is an adrenaline-filled-conspiracy-action-thriller young adult novel. So be prepared when you open the book to be consumed. It reads as a movie made into a book. …
Thunder in the Morning Calm is the first book in Don Brown's Pacific Rim series and what a book it is! It's hard to express how refreshing it is to have a book where there is not a hidden r…
