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Review: Quest Kids and the Dark Prophecy of DougThe lovable troupe of adventure seekers from Quest Kids and the Dragon Pants of Gold continue their search for Ned’s parents...
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Book Review: Hello Trees by Nina ChakrabartiHello Trees: A Little Guide to Nature by Nina Chakrabarti is a great little book for children about something we see every day but...
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Book Review: Mascot by Charles Waters & Traci SorellWhat happens when students of a public school see the sports mascot as racist and others see it as a tradition to be upheld?...
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Review: She’s a Mensch! by Rachelle Burk & Alana BarouchMensch is a Yiddish word that refers to someone who has integrity, and whom others consider to be good, possibly a role model. Authors...
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Review: Bees Are Our Friends by Toni D’Alia & Alice LindstromBees are so important for pollinating the food we eat and the flowers we love to smell, as well as for so many other reasons. Bees...
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Book Review: Draw This! by Marion DeucharsDraw This! Art Activities to Unlock the Imagination by artist Marion Deuchars, is a small book designed to help budding artists tap...
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Review: The Case of the Missing Tarts by Christee Curran-BauerThe Pigeon Private Detectives have a new case: someone stole a plate of tarts from the precinct. Crumbs and clues are dropped all over...
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Review: Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards RichmondSova’s mom is a scientist who studies owls. During migration time, she works at night, catching and banding saw-whet owls before...
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Review: Schonzzer & Tatertoes Take a Hike!Schnozzer & Tatertoes are two pup buddies who decide to set off on an adventure to find Tatertoes’s mother. They know the...
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Review: Hands-On Science: Matter by Lola M. SchaeferYoung children love science, even if they don’t know that’s what to call their experiments. Hands-On Science: Matter ,...
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Books As Night Lights: Helping Children See In the DarkIn her books for young readers, author Kimberly Kenna addresses big topics, like environmental stress, censorship, and child sexual assault. Kenna...
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Review: We Dug Up the World by Alexandra Stewart & Kitty HarrisMost kids, and lots of adults too, like digging. There’s something about putting a shovel or a trowel into the mud or a sandbox...
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Book Review: Glitter Everywhere by Chris BartonAnyone who’s ever used glitter (and who hasn’t?) knows how even just a little can go a long way. And it keeps turning up...
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Book Review: Graceland by Nancy CrochiereA grandmother’s dying wish to see Graceland one more time. Her pink-haired teen granddaughter driving her there from New York in...
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Review: Malala Activist for Girls’ Education by Raphaele FrierSay the name Malala, and most people know it refers to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who was shot by a member of the Taliban in 2012...
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Review: The Firefly Summer by Morgan MatsonRyanna Stuart expects to spend the summer on a movie set with her film director dad. But then an invitation arrives to a former summer...
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Book Review: Where the Weird Things Are by Zoleka FilanderSome of the strangest creatures in the ocean live in what’s known at the Ocean Twilight Zone, a place so deep there’s very...
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Book Review: A Cat’s Guide to the Night Sky by Stuart AndersonLook up at the night sky and you may see a few familiar things. The moon certainly, and sometimes planets as well as stars. But...
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Excerpt from Leaving, a Book by Kanchan BhaskarNote from MotherDaughterBookClub.com: While I didn’t have the opportunity to review the following book, I wanted to make readers...
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Book Review: Welcome to Monsterville by Laura Shovan & Michael RothenbergThe book Welcome to Monsterville starts with a poem called Invitation. It reads, in part: Hello, children! Please...
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Book Review: Rare Birds by Jeff MillerRare Birds by Jeff Miller tells the story of eleven-year-old Graham, whose mom is on a waiting list at a Florida medical center for...
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Review: Captain Skidmark Dances With Destiny by Jennifer A. IrwinThirteen-year-old Will knows that no matter how bad the bullies treat him he will keep quiet when they trip him in the hall or steal...
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Book Review: All About Nothing by Elizabeth & Elizabeth GossIt’s easy to think that nothing is a thing that doesn’t exist. But in their picture book, All About Nothing , Elizabeth...
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Review: Good Different by Meg Eden KuyattPebblecreek Academy is the kind of place where Selah feels comfortable, a place she describes as like “a pair of favorite...
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Review: The Penguin of Ilha Grande by Shannon EarleWhen Seu Joao rescued an oil-slicked penguin on the beach by his home in Brazil, he never expected it to turn into a long-term...
