Planet Twerp by Jacqueline Pansy is the story of a 12-year-old boy called Dean, who while on a cruise ship with his dad, is distressed to hear that a typhoon is heading their way. After his dad tells him that he may have to leave...

Phantom Ship in the Desert is Sherri Kukla's third book in the MotoMysteries series. I am always on the lookout for books for my children that teach character, adventure, and where the kids have to work through problems. Millie and Jeremiah were once foster children,...

Pop and Shells: A New Beginning by Kristina Gemborys is a fun adventure story for children. The book follows a bright pink bug called Pop. Pop is in search of a new home and wants to find somewhere quieter than where she came from. Although...

Kristi Shimada writes children's stories that are not only fun and original, but also teach valuable lessons to children and their parents. Children may learn most things at school and with their friends, but the deep and heartfelt teachings and lessons are learned at home...

It’s the late 1940s in Springfield, Kentucky. Drummer and Bug are sent to their granddaddy’s sharecropper spot of land to spend the summer. Their parents had separated and the two young boys were apart from their other siblings. That didn’t stop the two from having...

Jam is a jelly jar. Then there’s Snap the pickle, Phil the paper bag and, the story’s protagonist, Pepper, the potato. Pepper’s friends find him buried in dirt and, you guessed it, dirty. They want to clean Pepper before they go to the fair by...

Puppy Pete’s Imaginary Jungle (Crochet Me a Story) by Rachel Hilz is a story about a crocheted puppy and his imagination. It’s raining outside, and Puppy Pete is bored with nothing to do inside. So he has a brilliant idea to use his imagination to...

Putney and the Magic eyePad by MK Tufft is a beautifully written story for fourth to sixth graders, featuring an interesting female protagonist: Putney Hicks. She is an imaginative twelve-year-old girl with a magic eyePad, an aspiring artist who is worried sick over her move...

Professor Watkins is an inventor. A genius, really. He’s created a wonderful device. It’s a collar that, when he wears it, he can understand and communicate with his dogs. I have to admit, there are times when I wish I had one so I could...

Let's meet the prettiest girl on Planet X and her puppy Knuffelen in the storybook Prettiest Girl on Planet X by Michael Verrett. They live in outer space and Planet X is big and blue. The sun and moon are their neighbors. Space is a...