Fun and illustrated with cartoon humor, the mystery novel Emily and Sam: The Mad Scientist Next Door follows twins who take a less than scientific approach to investigating their new neighbor. In Dave Cole’s entertaining mystery novel... Read More

Featuring glow-in-the-dark details, "The Fly Who Flew to Space" is an imaginative picture book about a fly who travels to space by accident, learning much along the way. In Lauren Sánchez’s whimsical picture book "The Fly Who Flew to... Read More

An adventurer who perseveres even when the task is unpleasant models hard work in the historical novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing". George Chiang’s illustrated novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing" is a story of grit... Read More

A plucky mouse proves that one’s size does not determine one’s worth in the adventure-filled alternate history novel "Francisco Mouse". In M. Douglas McDonald’s adventure-filled children’s novel "Francisco Mouse", an intrepid... Read More

“Sometimes you have to do things that make other people mad if you want to change something that is wrong,” learns a precocious young investigator in the involving mystery novel "State of the Union". In Kitty Felde’s informative... Read More

A grieving girl stumbles onto a supernatural distraction in the involving mystery novel "Welcome to Washington Fina Mendoza". In Kitty Felde’s series-opening mystery novel "Welcome to Washington Fina Mendoza", a girl whose father works... Read More

A seventh grader meets monsters while traveling with her family in Lisa Naffziger’s graphic novel "Deja Ross Speaks to Freaks". While on vacation with her family in Texas, Deja is excited to enter the territory of an infamous monster,... Read More

A gentle conservation message comes through in Tom Huddleston’s adventure-filled novel Cosmic Creatures: The Friendly Firecat, wherein a girl visits her aunt on a remote planet—and has to stop intergalactic rustlers from stealing... Read More