This year’s most delightful middle grade debut has to be Coo by Kaela Noel, the story of a girl raised…
Calling all lovers of historical fiction! I’ve just read the newly released upper-middle grade novel Alina and with me today…
Stealing Mt. Rushmore comes out this coming Tuesday, August 18, and I’m pleased as punch to feature an interview with…
When I began Shannon Doleski‘s upper-middle grade debut Mary Underwater, the sparse and powerful prose hooked me on page one.…
Combine a little magic with a love of science, and what do you get? Into the Tall, Tall Grass, a…
The “StayAtHome order has affected all of us differently. How to stay focused? What to focus on? What really matters?…
I can’t think of a better way to spend time during a quarantine than to read! And I’m giving away…
In Blue Skies eleven year-old Glory Bea believes her daddy will come home from the war. He has to. He…
I’m still choked up after reading Her Own Two Feet, just out from Scholastic’s FOCUS imprint, about a Rwandan girl…
Last month, our protagonist realized she “could believe in science without giving up on magic.” This month, we’re looking at…