Category Archives for Children’s Literature Specialist

B J Mears on ‘Ghosts of Redemption’ Me?  My name is Ben Mears (not the vampire slayer of Salem’s Lot, another Ben Mears). I live in England, a country on one of the small islands collectively (and quite ironically) known as Great Britain.   Genre? The Tyler May series is a young adult, dark fantasy. […]

I was thrilled when a few of my students wanted to read True Colors. It was a Mega Hit with the girls and I am most excited to read the sequel with them, Best Friends… Forever. Krysten Lyndsay Hager has what I call the new ‘Teen Scream’. ‘Good friends have your back, but some go behind it.’ […]

What do pirates, explorers and children have in common? They all love treasure hunts! THE ULTIMATE READING QUEST will end on Monday, January 19th, at midnight. This is your last chance to explore new books and authors, and to take home free prizes and books. Plus, one lucky winner, will get a MYSTERY BONUS TREASURE! […]

WATCH THE VIDEO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE READING QUEST. Happy New Year from all the Authors in the Ultimate Reading Quest! This year myself, and all the Quest authors, want you to enjoy your reading experiences more than ever! So in 2015, the Ultimate Reading Quest has more, more, more! More authors and more […]

Dean plodded down the tunnel as the chanting was somehow drawing him to it. He had no physical signs of shifting but felt a burning anger pulsing through him, similar to when he felt when someone was close the mine or nearby. His pendant had stopped glowing, as had the chanting voices. Damn, now what? […]

Jonathan Palmer led a rough life, orphaned, poor and learning a hard life on the docks in Jamaica in the 1700s. He had high hopes of  finding his birth mom stowing away on a ship headed off to England   that was part of a fleet some say was cursed. Problem was he never made […]

Chapter 5 The Wreck All were on deck now, and orders were being given from all directions. It was a moonless night and the sea was as black as pitch. The sound of the waves thrashing against the ship rose above the yelling of the crew on the Convert. It was now the wee hours […]

I was gifted a copy of Cathy Collar’s Katie and the Dagger of Truth and felt like a kid again as I was lost in this enchanted tale of children who enter into a magical realm of the Fae kingdom through Katie’s grandma’s attic on the eve of Halloween. What child wouldn’t love this read […]

It’s no wonder Brandt Legg has well over 100 reviews for his books. I was gifted Outview and was totally blown away with Legg’s style and quality. No surprise, being a child prodigy he would be destined to go on to delight other young readers with his gifts. As a children’s reading specialist I can […]

Chris Weigand is out to entertain and enlighten our middle grade to young adult readers, and she is doing it in a very spiritual way! In her trilogy, The Twelve Pillars, her fantasy characters come face to face with evil in a world of princes, princesses, kings and wizards in a planet far away.  Weigand […]