Synopsis : It's Groundhog Day . Well, sort of. It's a lot less funny and a lot more scary, even when your four ex-best-friends are...

Synopsis : It's hard to resist a story about stories. We are the stories we tell about ourselves—that's the theme that shines thro...

Source: Mental Health America May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we've reviewed a number of titles over the years that we th...

Synopsis : I loved the first two books in Sarah Beth Durst's Queens of Renthia trilogy, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to r...

Here in a handy list is a set of links to all of my reviews of this past year's Cybils finalists for Graphic Novels. As always, it was...

Synopsis : Well, first off, now I'm really glad I decided to change my WIP's title away from its working title of Ignition, becaus...

Synopsis : Suee and the Shadow was a Cybils finalist in 2017 for Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels. This ghost story with a touch of...

Synopsis : Graphic novels lend themselves to telling a wide variety of stories, and Soupy Leaves Home is one of those that helps push the...

Synopsis : This was such a charming, delightful story about the many questions that come up for kids whose families have in some way cross...

Gateway to the Great Stupa at Sanchi, 1st century CE. Synopsis : The life (well, lives) of the Buddha are almost naturally suited to ...

Synopsis : I can't really beat the flap copy for this one, in terms of plot summary, so here you go, fresh from Amazon: Who’s afrai...

Synopsis : First Second consistently puts out high-quality and varied graphic novels for audiences from kids to adults, and Spinning by ...

Synopsis : I found out during Cybils deliberations that The Dam Keeper originated as an Oscar-nominated short animation, which makes me s...

Synopsis : Reboots seem to be the story fad du jour when it comes to comic franchises, and while there have been some reboots of Superman,...

Synopsis : Uh-oh, Grandma's gone missing…. In this year's Cybils winner for Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels, Where's Ha...

Synopsis : I've finally been able to get back to some pleasure reading after a long stint of Cybils reading (which has now slowed dow...

Synopsis : This was one of my "waiting on" titles of 2017—the His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favorites (and one I wish ...

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! A funny thing happened on the way to reading a book, way back in 2013, that I didn't thin...

Synopsis : Kacey Young has only been living with her dad and stepfamily for a year or so, after escaping from an unpleasant home life with...

Good covers, too Synopsis : I was drawn to Victoria Aveyard's trilogy-- Red Queen , Glass Sword , and King's Cage --because I sa...