Book Review: Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson’s The Familiars
A magical adventure for three mismatched familiars as they race a deadline to save their wizards from the evil queen and discover their true destiny.
Category: Middle-Grade readers
Book Review: Steve LeBel’s “Bernie and the Lost Girl”
Young Emily, is lost, and none of the gods can find her, for they fear to enter…the woods! A fearsome place that only Bernie and his friends will brave.
Book Review: Barbara Brauner and James Iver Mattson’s The Spell Bind
Katarina may have to learn to speak penguin, if Lacey can’t figure a way out of the spell bind when she “helps” the hapless Martin Shembly with his jetpack disaster.
Book Review: Eoin Colfer’s The Forever Man
It takes centuries, but Garrick survives back to 1899 London to take revenge upon his assistant, Riley. Only his plans go awry and they and Chevie land back in 1647.
Book Review: Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach
An escapist adventure for young middle-grade readers with new friends aboard a giant peach.
Book Review: John Flanagan’s The Tournament at Gorlan
Halt and Crowley discover the ambitious Morgarath has been corrupting the Ranger Corps with plans to steal the throne.
Book Review: Tamora Pierce’s Melting Stones
The angry Evvy is on a punishment voyage with her mentor, prickly green mage Rosethorn, who must determine why the plants and animals are dying.
Book Review: M.L. Roble’s The Worlds Traveler
Young Phillip must stay hidden, unable to use his gift to search for his missing father. But the arrival of a stranger, a man with the ability to travel worlds, provides hope.
Book Review: Angie Sage’s Fyre
Jenna will be Queen and Beetle is Chief Hermetic Scribe. Septimus, however, must rid the Castle of the Darke Domaine by destroying the Two-Faced Ring.
Book Review: Tamora Pierce’s The Will of the Empress
The Empress of Namorn extorts her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit, & Sandry finally gives in, as long as her special “guards” come along.