I’m kind of confused about this book. The tag line on the front says “Get your goth on.” The description on the back calls Philippa, the main character, a “goth girl.” And yet on page two Philippa explicitly states that she is, in fact, NOT a goth girl, and later in the book says that [...]

It’s a good time, book-wise, to be a tween.
I read the galley of THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB within the first few days after it arrived in our shop. I remember that the Simon galleys arrived late that season and we had less than a week to evaluate them for initial purchase.
As soon as I started [...]

There’s going to end up being a bit of a rant in this review, so I want to preface it by saying: I enjoy Buckingham’s writing very much. I loved DEMONKEEPER, his first book, and sold a lot of it when I was a bookseller. I was very much looking forward to reading GOBLINS! and [...]

Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.
That’s my one-word review of Bonechiller.
(Probably you could have figured that out yourself, right? I mean, it’s pretty much all right there in the title.)
Danny and his dad move around a lot, trying to escape their memories of Danny’s mother, who’s gone now. This time they’ve ended up in Harvest Cove – “tucked away in [...]

This is one of my four (so far) favorite fall books, and definitely my favorite fall middle-grade release. (No, I haven’t told you about my other three yet; patience, dear readers.)
My love for Paul Feig already knew no bounds. I am a huge fan of the late, lamented TV show Freaks and Geeks (seriously huge [...]