Genre: Middle Grade Speculative

Benotripia: The Amulet Chase by McKenzie Wagner

Benotripia: The Amulet Chase by McKenzie Wagner

Before Danette was queen of Benotripia, she was a timid eleven-year-old girl trying to harness her powers and have fun with her best friend, Pyro. But when two young strangers wash up on Benotripia’s shores with a stolen treasure and a mission to defeat the Darvonians, Danette and Pyro have to swallow their fears so they can help save the island. Can the four friends […]

February 16, 2017 / 0 Comments
Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon & Dean Hale

Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon & Dean Hale

Who runs the World? Squirrels!! Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green moved from sunny California to the suburbs of New Jersey. She must start at a new school, make new friends, and continue to hide her tail. Yep, Doreen has the powers of… a squirrel! After failing at several attempts to find her new BFF, Doreen feels lonely and trapped, liked a caged animal. Then one day Doreen […]

February 11, 2017 / 0 Comments
Wrath of the Storm by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Wrath of the Storm by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Trouble has a way of seeking out Nicolas Calva, and it’s not likely to leave him alone any time soon. With Caesar’s magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and the possibility of a Jupiter Stone in play, all the powers of Rome are circling Nic. He’ll have to maneuver his way through scheming government officials and reawakened magical beasts to save the Empire. Can he […]

January 31, 2017 / 0 Comments
Battlementals: Quest for the Harmonicon by Randy Lindsay

Battlementals: Quest for the Harmonicon by Randy Lindsay

Chase Freeman is a boy with a heart for adventure stuck living in the incredibly dull town of Drifter Flats. The only exciting thing that ever happens there is the Eclipse Day celebration and even that isn’t enough for Chase—until he follows after a strange ball of light streaking across the sky. Enlisting his best friend Jordan, her little brother Luke, and Harlan the smartest […]

January 26, 2017 / 0 Comments
Soulbound: The Missing Heir of Mandralay by Braden Bell

Soulbound: The Missing Heir of Mandralay by Braden Bell

Her power can overthrow a tyrant—or destroy her own soul. Killing the queen of Mandralay was easy. Led by the queen’s sister, Saydee, the coup succeeded except for one small detail: one of the conspirators had a last minute burst of conscience and spirited the infant princess away. Unable to rule as queen while the true heir lives, Saydee orders her most trusted Bestial to […]

January 20, 2017 / 0 Comments
Save the Bats by Amy Linnabary

Save the Bats by Amy Linnabary

Stuck in the city with houses too close together, eleven-year-old Will thinks that all of his adventures are over. That all changes the day his grandpa gives him a magical pocket watch with the one stipulation, the magic only works if he includes his two obnoxious younger brothers. Much to Will’s surprise, the watch begins to glow and the brothers find themselves transformed into bats. […]

December 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Jed and the Junkyard Wars by Steven Bohls

Jed and the Junkyard Wars by Steven Bohls

Jed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family… that is, if it’s normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation. At least until the morning of his […]

December 8, 2016 / 0 Comments
Felicity and the Fire Stoppers by Loralee Evans

Felicity and the Fire Stoppers by Loralee Evans

Felicity is no stranger to adventure and peril, in her books or real life, so not much surprises her any more. Even if it’s a visit from an old enemy! But when she sees something that looks suspiciously like smoke in the mountains near her home, Felicity realizes that she’ll need to use all her smarts and courage to help her friends. Especially when a […]

October 24, 2016 / 0 Comments
Ghostsitter by Shelly Brown

Ghostsitter by Shelly Brown

Tiffany Hart dreams of one thing, to be class president. But dreams turn to nightmares when she ends up almost dead in an abandoned slaughterhouse and develops the gift of ghost-seeing. Unfortunately she only knows one person who can help her shake her ghoulish problem, her neighbor and the weirdest boy at school, Justin Henderson. Justin has been seeing spirits since he was nine, a […]

October 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Snow Fright by Amie & Bethanie Borst

Snow Fright by Amie & Bethanie Borst

Sarah White is gorgeous even if she is a little bit rotten. A mirror arrives on her twelfth birthday and she thinks it’s the perfect gift, but when the mirror swallows her whole Sarah finds herself in the dead center of the Underworld. Sarah now has to deal with her decaying flesh and sudden craving for brains. By the time Sarah escapes the Underworld, she […]

October 5, 2016 / 0 Comments