"People should exchange bacon at weddings. Who gives a crap about rings? But if you're willing to share your bacon--that marriage is gonna last." --Eddie Toivonen in What Goes Up
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Ronald Zupan is one of the "greatest master explorer" of the age, despite only being 11-years-old. He only has one small problem: he can't seem to make it onto any of his parents' (also master e…
William Shakespeare said, "The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children." In Matthew Landis' book, League of American Traitors, the future generations, living in the here an…
The Ends of the World is the final installment to the Conspiracy of Us series. Having read book two, Map of Fates, a year ago, I struggled a little to catch up but once I did I was hooked. B…
The Montana Rescue series by Susan May Warren continues with the third installment entitled A Matter of Trust. The setting alone is reason to investigate this series. Set in Montana in and…
A heart-wrenching novel of guilt, forgiveness, promises kept, bravery, and survival. Yet, at the same time, The Trail by Meiko Hashimoto is an adventure story of hiking the Appalachian Trail…
From the maker of Desktop Gremlins comes a unique activity book. As the book claims, it requires "no glue, no tape, and no complicated folding". This book has thick, perforated pages that makes cuttin…
Set in the 1960s, these stories of good versus evil have no shortage of action. This book is a compilation of 17 stories by 17 authors. All of the stories are well-written, bringing this c…
Toby has never set foot on dry land; his whole world is on the ocean as an engineer on his father's salvage vessel. Life is fraught with dangers--everything from mechanical malfunctions, corrupt…
Twelve-year-old Lindy has the summer to find her passion and conquer her fear. Should be a piece of cake, right? Well, if you have New York City at out your front door, there is certainly a lot of opp…
Imaginative. Delightful. Silly. Fantastic. Pick any word and it will aptly describe Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Unicorn Training. This middle grade read was such an abso…
Initially, this seems to be just a book about car racing, and there is plenty of it. With that, of course, comes action and suspense that will get your heart pumping. Velocity would make an excellent …
