On My Bookshelf...

I read this book to my six-year-old daughter over the course of three days, and we were both riveted. Anton and Cecil are cats, brothers who...

Alice Meriwether is a genteel young lady with a keen interest in the New Science that her mother barely tolerates. In Fairburn, Georgia, af...

This is Book One in Tales From Lovecraft Middle School, and it is an auspicious beginning! Lovecraft fans will be delighted to have this br...

Okay, I'm pretty sure Allison is going to keel over from surprise when she sees that I FINALLY posted something to this blog! I told her...

ADVENT by James Treadwell: I love fantasy. I re-read LORD OF THE RINGS every couple of years. I excel at suspension of disbelief and immer...

THE SISTERS GRIMM: THE COUNCIL OF MIRRORS by Michael Buckley concludes the nine-book series featuring sisters Sabrina and Daphne, descenda...

MILESTONE ALERT! My last post on here was #600!! 600 posts! That's a lot of book rambling by me and Allison. :-) And we are at 192 subsc...

I first discovered this book by reading a review of it at Wrighty's Reads . Wrighty so thoroughly convinced me I HAD to read this book,...

The Secret of Grim Hill by Linda DeMeulemeester: This is the first book in the series, and it introduces Cat Peters, who has just moved w...

39 Clues Book 3: The Sword Thief by Peter Lerangis: The third book in The 39 Clues multimedia series was a little heavy on annoying bad-guy...

Savvy, by Ingrid Law , was one of the books I received in my big box of Penguin books from Presenting Lenore and it is a winner. Ingrid ...

If you've read Alex and the Ironic Gentleman , you will want to pick this sequel up immediately. If I had to pick one word to describe ...

Jen Robinson's review of this book made me want to pick it up. She also said if you liked The Eight, you probably would like this one. W...

Some quick internet research turned up Pierdomenico Baccalario as the author. Apparently, Scholastic is using a gimmick whereby Ulysses Moo...

If you’re going to publish a juvenile fantasy book in this post-Harry Potter world, you invite comparisons. Particularly if your cover feat...

I never win anything in random drawings, scratch-off tickets, or the like. Chance is *not* my friend. Yet I persist. I am glad that my un...

The Sisters Grimm: Magic and Other Misdemeanors by Michael Buckley: I've gushed about this series before, and I'm about to do it a...

The full title of this book is: Cinderella (as if you didn't already know the story). I thought this sounded like it might be fun. Maybe...

I've decided to read a few youth fiction books lately because I feel in the mood for something quick and fun. I read Toys Go Out very qu...

Two good reviews and one not-so-good, all in the juvenile fantasy genre... The Sisters Grimm: The Problem Child by Michael Buckley: Ah, mo...