by Pam Withers | Oct 21, 2024 | featured authors, archive authors
Tom Birdseye grew up in North Carolina and Kentucky, where he enjoyed sports and outdoor fun. He wasn’t into reading until age 19, when a friend shoved a book in his face and said, “You’ve got to read this, no excuses.” It was The Hobbit, by J.R.R....
by Pam Withers | Sep 9, 2024 | featured authors, archive authors
Tomi Oyemakinde grew up in London, UK before being uprooted at the age of six to the Netherlands, then Kuwait, Norway and Scandinavia. The child of Nigerian immigrants, he considers himself a “third culture kid.” While attending a boarding school in England, he...
by Pam Withers | Sep 9, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) Seventeen-year-old Darius lives in the city of Zalmon, where every Life Event is predetermined in accordance with the Book of Zalmon: where you’ll work, who you’ll marry and at the end of it all, when you’ll die. Natural Deaths are to be avoided at...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) A high-adrenaline story of what it really means to man up. Seventeen-year-old Ren Adams feels lucky to be living with his brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie ― a welcome escape from his mother and her fundamentalist husband. Ren finally feels...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Thirteen-year-old Vincent has a very special talent: He can jump into paintings and move around inside them. When the painting The Thunderstorm by an old Dutch painter is stolen from a London mansion, Vincent decides to track it down. During his...
