Here’s a guest book review from author Christina Hamlett. Visit her website for more information about her work, www.authorhamlett.com. Title: Mistress Masham’s Repose Author: T.H. White Publisher: New York Review Children’s Collection (2004) Reviewer: Christina Hamlett What a wonderful trek down memory lane! I owned a copy of this book when I was 10 and [...]

Thirteen-year-old Zardi is the daughter of the Sultan’s closest adviser. She lives with her family and Rhidan, a ward of the state since he was found on their shores as a babe years ago. Rhidan doesn’t look like anyone else in their country, and he knows nothing about where he is from. When the cruel [...]

I am happy to be part of author Michaela MacColl’s blog tour for her new historical fiction novel, Promise the Night. Read on for my review of this exciting story about the early life of Beryl Markham, the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America. Then don’t forget to leave a comment [...]

In The Darlings Are Forever, Jane, Victoria and Natalya, who have been friends for years, were separated  for the first time in years when they left the school they attended until 8th grade and each went to different high schools. The Darlings in Love by Melissa Kantor continues the saga of their freshman year, this [...]

Home for the Holidays is the fifth book in Heather Vogel Frederick’s beloved series, The Mother-Daughter Book Club. By now, the girls of the Concord, Massachusetts book club are almost as well known to readers as the characters in the stories they are tackling this year: all 10 titles in the Betsy-Tacy series written by [...]

Ivy and Eldridge have become fast friends after their adventures in Ivy’s Ever After by Dawn Lairamore. Now they’re trying to enjoy themselves at Drusilla’s wedding when a giant beanstalk with vicious teeth for pods grows into the clouds, taking Drusilla’s pet goat with it. In Ivy and the Meanstalk, the two set off to [...]

Take an unconventional princess, a shy and timid dragon, an evil prince as would-be rescuer, and a kingdom that sorely needs a dash of hope. Mix in an absent-minded, wayward fairy godmother, a few trolls, and a cute stable boy. Bring all the ingredients together in a tale called Ivy’s Ever After by Dawn Lairamore [...]

Have you ever wished you could do more to contribute to a cause or organization you really believed in? Kevin Salwen and his family took that desire and turned it into something tangible by selling their upscale home, downsizing to a smaller house, and donating half their profit to a charity. Inspired by daughter Hannah’s [...]