"A Tribute to My Son" is a prose-poetic exercise in grieving that attempts to explain the unexplainable. Samina Muhammad’s "A Tribute to My Son" is a mother’s plaintive lament, carried across poems and short essays that serve as a... Read More

Any four- or five-year-old will benefit from this book’s themes of perseverance and stamina. Kids who can’t sit still will enjoy Lisa Shirley’s kinetic picture book "Timmy Tumbles". Timmy is clearly obsessed with tumbling. He... Read More

Humor, especially witty alien dialogue, adds a nice counterpoint to the tense drama and action of this science fiction showdown. The second book of the Chuck, Yu, and Farley series, Penny L. Samms’s "Invasion: Eris" blends action,... Read More

Scary stories set in an Irish locale are packed full of grim deeds and unceasing violence. A bloodthirsty collection of madmen and murderers fill the Dublin woods in John C. Lukegord’s campy and violent The Haunted Trail. Dylan, a... Read More