Book Reviews

  • Fairy House

    Fairy House (Choose Your Own Adventure)

    When you wish for your own fairy, you’re a bit surprised when Bert the Below Average shows up. But there’s nothing average about the magical adventures in this game book from the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series!

    Bored and ignored by your busy parents, you decide to go outside and build a fairy house. Just when you’re sure nothing is going to happen, you meet Bert the Below Average: a real, live fairy. He’s not exactly what you had in mind. But he’ll do. Let the Fairy House adventures begin!

    From author James Preller and illustrator Norm Grock.

  • Code 7

    Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic Life

    Life at Flint Hill Elementary School may seem normal, but seven friends find themselves on a path to crack the code for an epic life. Whether they’re chasing their dreams on stage, searching for an elusive monster fish, or running a makeshift business out of a treehouse, can these heroes find a way to work together to change their community?

    For readers 7-11 from author Bryan R. Johnson.

  • Booked

    Booked Graphic Novel

    In this electrifying follow-up to Kwame Alexander’s Newbery winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage. A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Longlist nominee, now in a graphic novel edition featuring art from Dawud Anyabwile.

    Twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Helping him along are his best friend and sometimes teammate Coby, and The Mac, plus a rapping librarian who gives Nick inspiring books to read.

  • The Challenging Riddle Book for Kids

    The Challenging Riddle Book for Kids: Fun Brain-Busters for Ages 9-12

    What’s challenging, fun, and sure to give your brain a workout? This riddle book for kids ages 9-12!

    Riddle me this―can you solve these super hard word puzzles? You sure can! Featuring nearly 200 brain benders, this riddle book for kids ages 9-12 is the ultimate option for clever children who love thinking outside the box.

    This big riddle book for kids ages 9-12 will test the limits of your imagination. Start things off with handy tips and simple warm-up riddles that will help you twist your thinking and get creative. What’s the difference between a bird and a fly? Tie your brain in knots and find out inside!

    Boost your brainpower with this riddle book for kids ages 9-12:

    Tons of tough riddles―Build your problem-solving abilities and stretch your creative thinking skills as you unravel all kinds of perplexing puzzles.

    Learn about history’s biggest puzzlers―Try your hand at some of the world’s most famous riddles, like the Riddle of the Sphinx or Bilbo’s riddle from The Hobbit, while also learning fun facts about their history.

    Easy to use―Tips, hints, and an organized answer key in the back of this riddle book for kids ages 9-12 make it easy to get solving with your friends and family anytime.

    Unravel the mind-blowing mysteries inside the best riddle book for kids ages 9-12, written by author Danielle Hall.

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  • Three Wishes

    The Three Wishes (Choose Your Own Adventure)

    Embark on an enchanted journey with The Three Wishes, where some of your biggest ideas come true (with mixed results). Your zany Aunt Louise gives you a special gold charm that has been in your family for more than 300 years. Each new owner of the charm gets to make three wishes. You get right to work after lunch. Will your wishes lead you to the Secret Cat Club or to a mermaid cove? Perhaps you become a stegosaurus? Or maybe learn to fly? Will you become a millionaire overnight by discovering a buried chest of old coins? Some of your choices lead you to, ahem, more than you bargained for. Be careful to choose wisely!

    For readers 9-12 from author Shannon Gilligan and illustrator Norm Grock.

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  • Best Ever Hidden Picture Puzzles

    Best Hidden Pictures Puzzles EVER

    Calling all junior detectives and super seekers! This engaging 144-page puzzle book celebrates the very best of Highlights Hidden Pictures puzzles. Kids will love searching for 1,500+ hidden objects in a variety of innovative seek-and-find puzzles, including full-color, photo and classic black-and-white scenes.

    With over 20 different types of hidden Picture Puzzles, as well as fun and silly facts about these unique creations, there’s something for everyone in this “best of” collection. Created for puzzle-loving kids ages 6 to 106, this search-and-find book is bursting with classic puzzles, photo puzzles, inverted puzzles, two-player puzzles, and more, all woven together to provide hours of puzzling fun for seek-and-find fans.

    For readers 8 and up from Highlights.

  • Art Club

    Art Club (A Graphic Novel)

    Inspired by the author’s own childhood, this contemporary graphic novel follows an aspiring young artist on a mission to prove that the arts are worth fighting for. 

    Dale Donavan has repeatedly heard the same lecture: Art will get you nowhere. A kid with a creative streak, Dale wants nothing more than to doodle, play video games, and create comics forever—maybe even as a full-time job one day. But between his grandfather pushing him to focus on his studies and a school with zero interest in funding arts programs, Dale feels like his future has already been decided for him.

    That is, until he comes up with the perfect plan: What if he starts an after-school art club, gathers a team of creative students like himself, and proves all the naysayers—his stubborn vice principal in particular—wrong?

    This might just work, but if the club isn’t financially successful by the end of the semester, the school will shut them down. This may be Dale’s only chance to show the adults in his life that a career as an artist is not just a dream but a possibility!

    For readers 8-12 from author Rashad Doucet.

  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon

    Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.

    One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge—with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . .

    For readers 8 and up from award-winning author Kelly Barnhill.

  • Nora and the Mermaid's Monster

    Nora and the Mermaid’s Monster

    Underneath a magical dome of fog in a hidden little town, a mysterious disappearance can only be solved by twelve-year-old Nora Happerdance. Alice in Wonderland meets Hugo Cabret meets Nancy Drew in this whimsical romp through the land of Croswald.

    Nora has lived all her life in the same little half-bedroom above the starlit streets of Belzebuthe, next door to her best friend, Evie. Fishing for stars, fighting for space from her six brothers, and exploring farther than they should… But Featherly, a mystical mermaid, interrupts everything when she comes to town. Just when things get interesting, the mermaid disappears.

    One big mystery.
    Five likely suspects.
    Two unlikely detectives.

    Will Nora and Evie find Featherly in time? Just who is the mermaid’s monster and how can they be stopped?

    A cozy mystery for young readers and those young at heart.

    For readers 9-13 from author D.E. Night.

  • Th Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

    The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

    A lightning strike gave her a superpower…but even a super genius can’t solve the problem of middle school. This smart and funny novel is perfect for fans of The Fourteenth GoldfishRain Reign, and Counting by Sevens.

    A lightning strike forever altered Lucy Callahan’s life. She doesn’t remember it, but the lightning strike gave her genius-level math skills, and she’s been homeschooled ever since. Now, at 12 years old, she’s technically ready for college. She just has to pass 1 more test—middle school!

    Lucy’s grandma insists: Go to middle school for 1 year. Make 1 friend. Join 1 activity. And read 1 book (that’s not a math textbook!). Lucy’s not sure what a girl who does calculus homework for fun can possibly learn in 7th grade. She has everything she needs at home, where nobody can make fun of her rigid routines or her superpowered brain. The equation of Lucy’s life has already been solved. Unless there’s been a miscalculation?

    A celebration of friendship, Stacy McAnulty’s smart and thoughtful middle-grade debut reminds us all to get out of our comfort zones and embrace what makes us different.

    By author Stacy McAnulty for readers 9-12.

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