Category: YA & MG Works

Waistcoats and Weaponry finds Sophronia in her second year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality where there is plenty to do. She is busy trying to figure out how to deal …

Do not start this book if you are unprepared to stay up late reading or have no way to carry it with you for obsessive reading in between whatever other tasks are taking up your …

Curtsies and Conspiracies is the second book in the Finishing School series and, like the first, a mix of steampunk, humor, and adventure, now with a little light romance thrown in (somewhat to Sophronia’s dismay). …

Take a boarding school story. Add a dollop of steampunk, a sprinkling of mystery, and a healthy helping of humor, and you have Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminneck is not particularly …

A Snicker of Magic is a spindiddly book. In other words, it is written by a word lover for word lovers, and I fell in love with it right away. It also has a great …

Thursdays with the Crown provides an entirely satisfactory ending to the Castle Glower series. At the end of Wednesdays in the Tower, Celie, her siblings, and her griffin found themselves transported to another of the …

It is a lovely time, an absolutely splendid time, to be a reader of fantasy and science fiction books for kids, and you don’t have to be a 9 to 12 year old (the “middle …

The Extraordinary Book of Doors is a pleasure to read. It begins when Chen Connelly, who has just moved to a new town, finds an old book under the park bench. When he examines it, …

Dreamwood by Heather Mackey is a quest and a tale of discovery. Lucy Darrington is stuck in a strict boarding school when she gets a letter from her father saying he is on the edge …

In Xanadu, Wyoming the descendants of Kublai Kahn keep a menagerie full of mythical beasts and beings, protecting them from the outer world. Someone has let all six baby griffins out, and unless the family …