Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was six years old. As a result, he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He’s been home-schooled by the residents up until the day the county’s truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to […]

HAPPY 550TH BOOK REVIEW! To celebrate this momentous occasion, I present to you the thrilling conclusion to Margaret Peterson Haddix’s “Mysteries of Trash & Treasure” series. WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! Read Books 1 and 2 before reading Book 3   Colin has spent all summer solving mysteries with his friend Nevaeh. But they’ve only ever dealt […]

Ratty Barclay wasn’t supposed to be born a four-foot-tall, walking, talking rodent, but thanks to the Barclay family curse, he’s had to live in hiding from the rest of the world. All he wants for his thirteenth birthday is to return to his family’s abandoned estate on Fairweather Island to somehow break the curse. Then […]

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. He’s so good, in fact, that he’s already been playing on the high school’s JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education […]

After unraveling the mysteries behind two hidden boxes of secret letters written by kids from the 1970s, best friends Colin and Nevaeh have started Mystery Solvers Inc. But they didn’t expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family’s new […]

WARNING: This story will have you craving cookies! Laila gave Lucy a cupcake on the second day of kindergarten, and they’ve been inseparable ever since. But the summer before eighth grade, they find out that since they live on opposite sides of town, they’ll go to different high schools.Then Laila’s invited to compete at the […]

Colin and Nevaeh, whose parents own rival junk-removal businesses, uncover mysteries hidden in attics and basements and discover how trash can become treasure. When Colin finds a shoebox full of letters hidden in a stranger’s attic, he knows he’s supposed to throw them away. That’s his summer job, getting rid of junk. But Colin wants […]

I’M BACK! And to kick off the new year, I want to start with a book I should have reviewed back in 2023. WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! Watch all three seasons of Danny Phantom before reading this graphic novel! After saving the world from the apocalyptic Disasteroid, half-human and half-ghost Danny Phantom is finally recognized as […]

Maggie Stephens’s stutter makes school especially hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class or calling attention to herself. So when her unsympathetic father threatens to send her away for so-called “treatment,” she reluctantly agrees to her mother’s intervention plan: a few weeks in the fresh air of Wildoak Forest, visiting a […]

Freddie Ruiz is cursed. While other people may have bad days, Freddie and his family have had bad generations. From bird poop splatting on him during picture day to the many tumbles and trips that earned him the nickname Faceplant Freddie. He’s learned to lay low and keep himself out of trouble – which means no […]