I’ve been a David Lubar fan from way back, and I’m always impressed by his ability to shift from genre to genre without missing a beat.  Contemporary teen novel?  DUNK.  Sci-fi teen novel?  HIDDEN TALENTS and its sequel, TRUE TALENTS.  Quirky early reader?  PUNISHED.  Bizarro middle-grade short stories that go from funny to creepy?  The [...]

I am very bad at sports.  I am the last person you want on your team.  I drop things.  I stand in the outfield and stare up at the sun.  I only have hand-eye coordination when I’m holding a video game controller.  Given this fact, it may not come as much of surprise to you [...]

Let’s talk about early chapter books, shall we?  You know, those skinny little books with the giant fonts and cheap beige paper and about five hundred books in the series so far…hey, wait!  Where are you going?
Early chapter books are, more often than not, something that booksellers like to forget about.  We love putting fantastic [...]

Let’s do some simple math, shall we? Take two brothers. Subtract one father. Add a troubled past and old wounds. Multiply the oldest brother’s brains by ten, and then multiply the youngest brother’s hotness by twenty. The answer: THE DEMON’S LEXICON by Sarah Rees Brennan.
There is a deluge [...]