Genre: Middle Grade Speculative

Cleopatra’s Legacy: The Sapphire Blade by Dorine White

Cleopatra’s Legacy: The Sapphire Blade by Dorine White

The final journey begins! Travel with past heroes and a new adventurer to the historical romps of London and the scorching sands of Alexandria. Fourteen-year-old Akmir, raised from birth to sacrifice everything in the pursuit of Cleopatra’s magic gemstones, holds within his hands the secret location of the fifth and final mystic gem: the blue sapphire. His quest leads him to England, where four other […]

September 28, 2016 / 0 Comments
Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution by J. Scott Savage

Mysteries of Cove: Gears of Revolution by J. Scott Savage

After finding a compass and clues left by Kallista’s father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to search for the missing inventor. The teenagers hope to find answers about their mountain city of Cove, but instead, they find only a blackened forest, ruined buildings, and a small underground city. Almost immediately, Trenton and Kallista are caught up in a […]

September 20, 2016 / 0 Comments
Batneezer by Obert Skye

Batneezer by Obert Skye

For the first time, Rob Burnside knows when his closet is about to open—but he’s not prepared for what emerges. A mash-up of Ebenezer Scrooge and Lego Batman, this new visitor’s unusual antics are only one of Rob’s problems. While enduring visits by the ghosts of books past, present, and future, Rob learns some shocking news: A battle is brewing, and his school needs a […]

September 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

The Alien that Ate My Socks by Brandon Dorman

Hank, Hector, and Henry Hooligan are fun-loving, go-cart racing, up-for-anything boys. When the school bully, Rock, challenges the Hooligans to a go-cart race down Deadman’s Hill, the last thing anyone expects to see is a huge, blobby, purple alien in the middle of the road. Luckily Hoolie isn’t a dangerous alien. He’s friendly (if a bit smelly), and he eats clothes (particularly socks). He even […]

September 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Alcatraz: The Dark Talent

Alcatraz: The Dark Talent

Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Mokia. Too bad he managed to break the Smedry Talents in the process. Even worse, his father is trying to enact a scheme that could ruin the world, and his friend, Bastille, is in a coma. To revive her, Alcatraz must infiltrate the Highbrary—known as The Library of Congress to […]

September 7, 2016 / 0 Comments
Evertaster: The Delicious City by Adam Glendon Sidwell

Evertaster: The Delicious City by Adam Glendon Sidwell

Ever since he took a bite of a legendary dessert last summer, twelve-year-old Guster Johnsonville has never been the same. In fact, when a strange little man dressed as a conquistador comes clattering into the barn at the back of the Johnsonville farmhouse one afternoon, he forces Guster to face the truth: Guster is now the most delicious thing in the whole world, and a […]

September 5, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen

As a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor’s wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and she is sent to Attic Island, a former prison turned refuge—and quarantine colony—for the ill. The Scourge’s victims, Ani now […]

August 31, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Wrong Side of Magic by Janette Rallison

The Wrong Side of Magic by Janette Rallison

Hudson Brown stopped believing in magic long ago. That is, until the day he is whisked away to the magical land of Logos by a curious compass given to him by his off-beat neighbor, Charlotte. Hudson discovers that Logos is a land ruled by words, thoughts, and memories. A fairy might ferry you across the river for the price of one memory. But be sure […]

August 24, 2016 / 0 Comments
Once Upon a Time, A Bit Earlier by Erik Peterson

Once Upon a Time, A Bit Earlier by Erik Peterson

While all Fairy Tale stories begin long, long ago, this one begins just a bit further back still. Thanks to a spell cast by the Dark Queen’s evil mirror, all the fairy tale stories have been set in motion before they were ever meant to start! Snow White’s still just a little girl. Rapunzel’s hair has only grown down to the middle of her back. […]

August 11, 2016 / 0 Comments
One Truth, No Lie by Lehua Parker

One Truth, No Lie by Lehua Parker

After jumping into the ocean at Piko Point, life will never be the same for fourteen-year-old Zader Kaonakai Westin, the adopted boy allergic to water. Zader’s answers to who his birth parents are only leave him with more questions. When confronted by The Man With Too Many Teeth, he’s given an ultimatum: take away what’s most important to his brother Jay and live in exile […]

July 25, 2016 / 0 Comments