Buried in Books

By Kerry Wilkinson Despite the extreme popularity of the Hunger Games trilogy there were some serious flaws.  This book, Renegade , played i...

by Lindsay Smith      Yulia lives in Communist Russia, and her family is hiding from the government.  She is able to see past memories of pe...

by Jessica Brody      This is the second book in the Unremembered trilogy, although I have not read the first one.  I still felt like I knew...

Gee.  The past few weeks have been the longest I've ever gone without reviewing anything since my blog started over a decade ago.  But I...

Bone Talk , by Candy Courlay (middle grade, David Fickling Books, November 5 2019 in the US), is set in the mountains of the Philippines in ...

If you are a fantasy fan who loves quirky small museums with collections of oddities, you will love  The Hippo at the End of the Hall , by H...

By: Nicky Singer This book was like one scoop of vanilla ice cream.  It was simple, smooth, cold, and delicious.  The coolness of the ice cr...

Today's the day for the announcements of the 2019 Cybils Awards Shortlists!  I'm the category organizer for Elementary/Middle Grade ...

By Courtney Alameda Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat, she can see ghosts, and she uses her abilities to hunt ghosts with her friends Oliv...

Back in 2017 I wrote a post for the Barnes and Noble Kids Blog about dystopian middle grade books, and I've been asked to refresh it.  P...