My Favorite Books

Book 1 of the Moon Base Alpha trilogy Author: Stuart Gibbs Twelve-year-old Dash Gibson lives on the moon. His parents are exceptional scientists who were hired to study lunar geology on a three-year mission with their family. Dash discovers that life on Moon Base Alpha is boring, except that “the toilets might as well be...

Author: Kevin Sands Middle grade, history, and science – The Blackthorn Key combines my favorite genres into an exciting, high-stakes mystery. Apothecary’s apprentice Christopher Rowe starts this adventure with the phrase, “Let’s build a cannon.” He builds one, although testing it inside the apothecary shop was probably not his best idea. Ah, well. What does...

Author: T. Kingfisher I instantly fell in love with this fun fantasy.  Fourteen-year-old Mona is the baker’s niece and a baker herself. She is also a minor mage with the power to magick the best breads ever. She’s content using her gift to make the gingerbread men dance. And then, she finds a dead body...

Kekla Magoon Re-told myths and twisted fairy tales are quite popular these days. Shadows of Sherwood is Book 1 of the “Robyn Hoodlum” adventures. Kekla Magoon sets this version of Sherwood in a near-future urban jungle.Robyn is a rich girl with the odd habit of breaking into junk yards to steal obsolete electronics. One night...