Eleven-year-old Kofi was in trouble. Again. Although he loved his parents “like crazy,” they were way too crazy about school. Didn’t they realize that Kofi was an up-and-coming football (soccer) champion, and that after he finished... Read More

Jamie’s mother keeps a beautiful ceramic jar on their mantelpiece. The jar is painted with blue flowers and sometimes Jamie’s mother puts real flowers next to it in a vase. Jamie has been asking his mother about that jar ever since... Read More

“It was a time when cultures were colliding and destiny intertwined the lives of men together in unique complex patterns of life” Garcia writes. In this detailed novel which takes place in mid-nineteenth-century America Josh Taylor... Read More

Two roads diverged in a wood and I— I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference. *—*Robert Frost The Road Less Taken (1915) Once each generation an adolescent member of the isolated community of Hope is... Read More

Today’s children are overstimulated overbooked overpraised and underprepared to handle adversity in an emotionally intelligent way. Doctor Avril P. Beckford a well-qualified pediatrician has seen enough to present a cogent plan for... Read More

"A Native American Thought of It" is an educational book written by Rocky Landon, an Ojibway band member and Native Studies consultant from Ontario, with children’s book author David MacDonald, "A Native American Thought of It"... Read More

Christina Kilbourne’s "They Called Me Red" (Lobster Press, 978-1-897073-88-9) reveals what’s worse than a thirteen-year-old’s first job of washing gory slaughterhouse floors. When Devon’s father falls for Lily, a Vietnamese... Read More

Aranzi Machine Gun is an awesome series filled with random stories of dolls gone wild. Kawaii or Japanese Cute, the stuffed animal look, will be familiar to most, although this series is the author’s first English translation. Beware... Read More