It’s time to roll up our mermaid tails, shake the vacation sand out of our hair, and start rounding up the backpacks and school supplies. But that doesn’t mean we have to shelve our summer reading goals. Keep the warm-weather reading going even after the school bell rings with our picks for this month’s best […]
Before we can discuss why The Battle of Hackam Heath is so amazing (and it really is!), we have to take a step back and introduce the sadly uninitiated into the world of Ranger’s Apprentice. Here are a few things you need to know: Second, this twelve book series (not counting the prequels) is compulsively readable (for both young […]
A real, classic adventure story is becoming increasingly hard to come by. Sure, you can find tales of magic and dragons—and don’t get me wrong, I love magic and dragons—but sometimes you just want to read a classic fantasy where the characters fight with swords instead of wands, and ride horses instead of winged animals. […]