The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick draws the reader into the life and dreams of a teenage boy with a peculiar power to manipulate dreams. Finnegan is an average high school boy with whom young readers c…
Elizabeth Goddard keeps readers on edge with Perilous Tides, the second book in the Hidden Bay series. If you didn’t read the first book, you could certainly follow this story without having read it. …
This novel is generally classified as a fantasy. Fantasy-lite is probably a more accurate term because there is not extensive world building, and the magic present is really magical alchemy, which has…
The author of The Penderwicks gives us another classic-styled middle grade novel that is partly inspired by her love of The Borrowers. Although this book has a timeless feel, it is a modern setting (t…
The Hope of Cheyenne series by Tracie Peterson continues with Designed with Love. This work of historical fiction takes place in the 1870s. The book starts out with an intense scene and then pretty mu…
Fire Mountain is a standalone thriller novel by Dana Mentink. The book is exciting and full of danger and the unknown. If you are looking for something that has very little down time and constant chan…
(Note: This is book thirteen of The Dresden Files novels, which form a continuous story. Read no further, on peril of receiving spoilers for previous installments of the series.)
Readers of The Dre…
Ready to return to the world of Snowglobe? Or perhaps you are looking for a nice little duology to read this summer? If you live in the Midwest, now is the perfect time to read something that takes yo…
The Atlas of Untold Stories by Sara Brunsvold is a tangled story that jumps between a mother and her two daughters. All three are dysfunctional in some way or another and the story just keeps bringing…
In The Light on Horn Island, Valerie Fraser Luesse has penned another introspective story. It is full of heartache, love, laughter and romance. The love of the bayou and its beauties shines through. …
Rachel Hartman is an author of young adult fantasy. Her books to date are all set in the same fantasy world; some are duologies (Seraphina and Shadow Scale) and most have an occasional, light cross-c…
If you have read the previous books in the series, you will recognize some of your favorite characters. However, if you are just picking up the series here, you can follow things pretty easily. This h…
