Let's meet Toshiharu in the story Toshiharu's Bare Feet: A Loggerhead Story by Rita Kano. Though Toshiharu's head was sleeping, his feet were awake. The feet wanted to go for a walk on the beach but his head was too lazy to wake up. Finally,...

The Witch’s Broth is book 5 in the Henratty Mortimer Series for children by Henrietta Defreitas. Lillian the witch had three hundred long years to plan her revenge on Meerville Town after the meerkats banished her to the woods. She concocts a special magic broth...

Mystery, Myth, and Mayhem by Ben Woodard is a captivating collection of short stories for middle graders. In this book, adventure, ghosts, time travel, friendships, human-animal communication, and other thrilling features converge to create gripping stories. In the third story, The Ghostly Math Teacher, Harry...

Serena's Tales by Taylor Lukens, illustrated by Madison Hope-Hokulani Buffington, is a children's fantasy book about a mermaid named Serena, the youngest princess of King Ronan and Queen Venus of Dylana. Serena is known to be caring, kind, and adventurous. Her frequent underwater travels lead...

Aliens Ate My Homework is a work of science fiction and fantasy fun penned for children by author Matthew S. Cox. In this second novel in The Adventures of Ubergirl series, we return to Kelly Donovan and her Earth-saving ways for another delightful installment. After...

Eight-year-old Reagan is different. Everyone around her is also different. She loves to dance but the other children do not like dancing with her. Reagan loves a special place she calls rocks-water. She feels safe there. She does not feel lonely sitting on the rock....

In Corky Tails: Tales of a Tailless Dog Named Sagebrush by Joni Franks, the main character is Sagebrush, a Corgi dog. Sagebrush lives on a ranch. She stays in the house with her parents but the rest of the dogs are with the animals outside....

So many young people today are glued to their electronic devices and they are missing out on some of the real adventures life has to offer. No one recognizes this more than the family pet, the one that ends up forgotten while their young owners...

Little Puddles by Shannon Dill, illustrated by Chris E Hammond, is about a little man named PJ who lives on a little island, in a little house in a little town, named Littleton, and has a little garden. But then he gets a big idea....

The Brown family was having breakfast. Lucy and Robert always raced to see who would finish first. Lucy always won and that day she finished her chocolate milk first. Robert purposely dropped the spoon under the table and, when he reached under the table, he...