Children's Fiction Reviews:
What's new?
What's new?
April 14, 2021
Hooray! A sequel to "our" Newbery winner is here! Merci Suárez Can’t Dance, by Meg Medina, has the irrepressible Merci Suárez now in seventh grade, navigating new challenges with grace.
Happy reading!


The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon
Eoin Colfer's Legend of . . . The Worst Boy in the World
The Trouble With Chickens

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig


Two for One

Best Friends Forever
Dodsworth in Rome

The Dream Stealer

Tua and the Elephant
The Year of Billy Miller
Boris on the Move
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Takes Off
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Springs Into Action
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue
Ling & Ting
Twice as Silly
The Birthday Ball
Lulu and the Duck in the Park


Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels


Annie and Simon
The Sneeze and Other Stories
Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe





Clementine and the Spring Trip
The Meanest Birthday Girl

Lulu Walks the Dogs


I Kill the Mockingbird



The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee

Fake Mustache


Kepler's Dream




Out of My Mind



Chomp
One Dog and His Boy

The Thing About Luck
One False Note
Swindle

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things


Caddy's World

The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis


Lucky for Good

The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
The Maze of Bones: The 39 Clues, Book One
Guys Read
Funny Business

True Blue


Drama



Goblin Secrets

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp


The Wizard Test










Silver on the Tree


Hereville
How Mirka Met a Meteorite

The Conch Bearer
A Greyhound of a Girl
The Luck Uglies
The Facttracker
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms
Horten's Incredible Illusions
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Royal Ranger

Once Upon a Toad

Coraline



Wednesdays in the Tower
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Ever After High
The Storybook of Legends















Punished!
Wipeout of the Wireless Weenies
What-the-dickens
Abracadabra Tut






The Wizard of Dark Street

Nuts to You

Fangbone!
Third-Grade Barbarian
Half-Minute Horrors
The Red Pyramid:
The Kane Chronicles, Book One



Splendors and Glooms
Senrid




Hokey Pokey


The Cup and the Crown
The Fire Chronicle



Breadcrumbs




Cloaked in Red
Frogged











Bull Run

From Norvelt to Nowhere



The Great Trouble
The Friendship Doll


Jepp, Who Defied the Stars











The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette
Navigating Early

P.S. Be Eleven
Before Green Gables






The Secret of Terror Castle

The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
The Mystery of the Green Ghost
The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure
The Secret of Skeleton Island
The Mystery of the Fiery Eye
The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean

The Mystery of Meerkat Hill

"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
"When Did You See Her Last?"





The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom
LionBoy
LionBoy: The Chase
LionBoy: The Truth

A Hero for WondLa
The Fellowship for Alien Detection
Space Case
Zita the Spacegirl
Far From Home
The Fourteenth Goldfish


Starcross
Mothstorm
What Came from the Stars

Other Worlds

The Mysterious Benedict Society