Just another boring visit to the school’s library. Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in a library, or does it? Welcome to Orchard Ridge Elementary. Stephenie Wilson Peterson describes what happens in The Day the Librarian Saved the Galaxy. As you read this book,...

Living Green and the Smoke, written by Florian Bushy and illustrated by Ritwij Sasmal, is a children's book and “a story about air pollution, global warming, and teamwork”. The book begins with Earth in its infancy, a planet where plants, flowers, and trees are absolutely...

Have you ever seen the face of a man when glancing at the moon? Or have you noticed a piggie when looking at a rock? If you have, you have the gift of pareidolia, the ability to perceive patterns where no patterns exist, except in...

A colorful adventure using the power of imagination, We Are Heroes by Kyle Hart is a beautiful story of a father and a son in the world of make-believe. In short, simple sentences, you get to join them and you should fasten your seatbelt as...

Sixteen Sizes Smaller by Ruth Pocock is a mid-grade children's game book in the Choose Your Own Adventure-style, with a fresh and modern twist. The book begins with an introduction to the main character, an eight-year-old girl named Jessie Bellamy. Jessie is described as being...

Mutants scavenged planet Earth and feasted on humans and animals. Juuji gathered his friends into a makeshift rocket and flew off to Mars. But Mars didn’t support some situations, and there were problems. One of Juuji’s friends, Asiim, remained in a cradle at nine years...

In Big Chin Moves To Heroland! by Sawyer Ique, Big Chin is a companion to Van and has to entertain and help him. They have a lot of fun together by doing amusing things that make them smile and laugh. Big Chin was always helping,...

Geo by Topher Allen is a middle-grade children's book that follows its titular character, a little rock named Geo, on an adventure with unexpected outcomes. Geo lives underground in Golem’s Hollow, a world with tunnels and little excitement in a tightly structured and controlled city....

“Have you ever wanted to be somewhere else?” That was Stargazer’s poignant plea. She was tired of being held captive by her stargazer lily. You see, she’s a flower sprite and they live within the colorful petals of their assigned flower. At first, Stargazer, or...

The Garden Bone by Maria Magliano is a dinosaur fantasy adventure novel. But I bet you have never read one quite like this. Wenceslao Killean is a not-so-ordinary orphaned 12-year-old boy just trying to make it through life since his parents died, with his Abuela...