A. P. Winter’s middle grade, fantasy novel, The Boy Who Went Magic, is a tale of ancient magic, a scheming royal prince, adventurers, a boy learning how to be brave, and flying ships. Bert, an orphan who grew up at a boarding school, goes on a [...]
Ally Carter’s suspenseful thriller, Not If I Save You First, is a young adult novel that combines action, adventure, and survival as well as the elements of friendship and hope. Madeleine (Maddie) Rose Manchester is the daughter of a Secret [...]
Kacey Edwards yearns to find a way to break free from the small town she has known her entire life. Her hopes of becoming a veterinarian and finally escaping from her broken family are constantly shaken by the reality that her family cannot [...]
Try lives with his mother, sister, and two brothers in a small house in a village by the sea. Try’s father vanished at sea several years prior, but Try is not lonely because he has two good friends: Tallest, a large oak tree in the woods, and [...]
War Cry is a Courtney Family epic, the fifteenth novel in the series. New in this series is Saffron Courtney, daughter of Leon Courtney, the big-game hunter in Africa. In this post war story, Saffron is growing into an inquisitive young lady who [...]
Polly and her twin brother, Charles, live among other Earth transplants on one of Earth’s many off-world colonies on Mars. Polly fears her plans of becoming a pilot are ruined when her mother, the director of the Mars Colony, forces them to [...]
Gemeinhart’s Scar Island is a middle grade adventure and survival novel that includes coming to terms with the truth and dealing with guilt. Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys is a dangerous place with an abusive Admiral in charge, [...]
Audacity Jones and her friend Bimmy leave Miss Masie’s School for Wayward Girls Home on an adventure to New York City. Cypher, the adult that takes them, intends for them to see Harry Houdini and his latest magic trick – to make a larger [...]
Gabrielle Kent’s The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle is a page turning, middle grade adventure and fantasy novel with layers of mystery, history, mythology, and time travel. It follows an eleven-year-old boy named Alfie, whose father is an inventor [...]
The Assassin’s Creed video game series has covered many adventures, various time periods, and multiple engaging (some less than others) characters. The series has even branched into books and comics with varying success. Assassin’s Creed: [...]
M.P. Kozlowsky’s young adult, science fiction novel, Frost, combines fairy tale elements, a Dystopian society, robots, adventure, and survival to create a thrilling coming-of-age novel. Frost has been alienated from the rest of the world, hiding [...]
Darling Dimple is an orphan – she doesn’t actually have a dimple, her half-blind surrogate mother Jane named her after her actual mother died. Her universe is the royal castle in the kingdom of Eliora, in the employ of Princess Mariposa. [...]
The people of the Protectorate had fairly normal lives: they worked, married, and had families just like people in most towns. However, their town was not the same as others for their citizens lived in fear of the witch from the forest who had [...]
Blood Rain, written by Nancy Gray, follows the story of Mind of Mercy – better known to her family and friends as Mercy. A member of a Forest tribe, and unnamed daughter of her tribe’s chieftain, Mercy studies healing with her mentor in [...]
The Gathering (Shadow House, Book 1) is a wonderfully spooky title aimed at children aged 8-12. Five children received invitations to the Shadow House, but things immediately feel off when they discover they were all lured there for different [...]
“Every pair of ears within these walls had heard the same whispered advice: Work as though you are already dead. Try to feel nothing.” Elia works in the laundry of the Mirrored Palace, servant to the Twin Emperors, on one of the many floating [...]
Michael Van Cleve’s Titan is, at its core, a story about a family searching for a safe place in a dystopian future heavily altered by nuclear fallout following the destruction of civilization as we know it. Paris, the matriarch of the [...]
When United Airlines flight 305 inexplicably goes missing off the east coast of the United States, search crews are sent out to find and rescue passengers from the commercial flight. Ken Davenport, a scientist in the Air Force, notices that all [...]
Buzz Bernard’s Cascadia tells a story about The Really Big One—the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami that may likely devastate Oregon’s north coast. The subduction rips along the 700-mile area where the Juan de Fuca Plate dives [...]
Veronica Blake – or her clone, to be more accurate – has been on the run since she inadvertently helped a terrorist group destroy a city and kill millions of people. Haunted by her guilt, Veronica is determined to make the situation better by [...]
