Enola Holmes, estranged younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes begins her fourth mystery in one of her brilliant disguises as she learns Lady Cecily’s ...  Read more  »

A solid historical mystery, this turns the tables on Sherlock Holmes and establishes his 14-year old sister as a heroine and master detective. With secret ...  Read more  »

The magical "Rule of Three" is haunting Lewis Barnavelt, and possibly his uncle Jonathan, in The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer. Summer in the mid-1950s ...  Read more  »

An easy chapter book, Honey Cake is the story of David, a young boy living in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen in 1943. David’s father is a baker; ...  Read more  »

Sturtevant, Katherine. The Brothers Story Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009. This solid work of historical fiction, explores the struggles of a 15 year ...  Read more  »

This book would be best suited for middle school children because there is a lot of text involved. Though the language used is easy to ...  Read more  »

Madam President provides 23 profiles of politically influential women in America and abroad. First ladies include Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Among ...  Read more  »

Young train enthusiasts will enjoy C is For Caboose, a new ABC book focusing on the historical development of trains. Parents and grandparents will love ...  Read more  »

In this sequel to Solomon Snow and the Silver Spoon, Solly finds himself penniless once again and working in his adoptive parent’s laundry business. With ...  Read more  »

Five teens--who may not be teens--or human--are confined like prisoners to a boarding school, staffed by menacing guardians. Told in the 1 st person, by ...  Read more  »