Reviews written by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer

After Princess Beautiful's adventures in Cat of Death, she was left in a perilous position. Worldwide news media is in a frenzy, predicting that she wants to end the world. She does, after all, have a head full of nuclear codes. Her boyfriend, Catrick Cash, maintains that she is innocent,...

It is of note that even the publisher's official listings do not give a synopsis of this story. Since my reading of the series has been spotty (1-7 and 10), I found myself at a little bit of a loss as to who some characters were and what was going...

Sulaiman lives in a housing estate with his mother, father, and young sister Hannah. He is glad to take more responsibility and to help out, so is glad to be asked to go to the local store to get bread and milk. However, there is a man who has been...

Luca lives in Glasgow, Scotland with his mother, who is very busy selling surgical products, and grandmother, Nonna. His father has left the family and returned to the town in Italy that his own grandfather came from, Barga, and is running a bed and breakfast there. The grandfather had come...

It's 1942, and Angie has just graduated from a private high school in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. She's planning on going to college in Chicago, along with her sister Lorraine. Older sister Margaret has graduated, is engaged to Art, and working, while younger sister, Kitty, is ten. A chance encounter...

Children wake up and don't have to go much further than their front doors to find friends and adventures! They take off on scooters and bikes (while safely wearing helmets!), and are able to hang out in the local park, climbing trees and catching butterflies. They visit with friends, and...

Ruby is thrilled to be in Paris after months of getting ready for a school trip. She's hoping to find some undiscovered places to film for her YouTube channel, Ruby's Hidden Gems, but it's hard to sneak away from the school group and Mr. LeBreque. She and Sean (on whom...

In this rhyming picture book, we get to see all of the exuberant activities that dogs enjoy! From barking and catching balls to napping... and napping... and napping, there are many traditionally canine activities depicted with a variety of adorable breeds. After ending with z for "zonked" and a nest...

Mel is an avid soccer player who lives with her supportive parents and her older sister, Emily, who has become distant since she is in high school and dedicated to writing poetry. Tory lives with her mother, who has recently married Eddison, as well as her new stepbrother, Terrance, who...

Opening this book awakens a sacred scarab and unleashes him on a museum of ancient Egypt. Never fear, for a mummified cat has also come to life, and promises to help the reader catch the scarab, encountering a lot of information about this fascinating ancient culture in the meantime. This...

Fifteen years old Reed is in high school, and is a good student, but is involved in no sports or clubs because he spends all of his spare time hanging out with his sister Beatrice. She's been in and out of hospitals for all of her ten years because of...

This large format picture book has two page spreads with nice, large pictures of the players and their names in large letters across the top, with difference styles of poems for each player. There are thirteen different players mentioned, including Kiz Cambage, Candace Parker, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, and...

Broken down into in different types of in person communication and also long distance communication, this book explore different facets of how, why, and in what manner humans communicate. There are lots of good details about a variety of topics; how humans learn to speak, how speech actually works, how...

Mandy Sullivan enjoys her life in Rocky Point, Maine, where she lives with her mother, who works in the library in the town, and her older brother Justin. Her father passed away when she was young. She has a best friend, Cynthia, who is going to spend the summer at...

This classic Brothers Grimm tale gets an abbreviated retelling in this shaped board book. The brother and sister get lost in the woods while their father is chopping wood, and are lured with candy by the witch who wants to eat them. Once Hansel figures this out, he manages to...