After The Mysteries of Harris Burdick poked and prodded the imaginations of countless readers over the years, now comes The Chronicles of...

The introduction to The Mysteries of Harris Burdick explains how a mysterious man - Harris Burdick - arrived at a publishing company one ...

When Conor awakens at 12:07, seven minutes past midnight, he should be thankful. Sort of. Waking up from a recurring nightmare brings a me...

This column appeared in last Monday's local newspaper. The intensity has been turned up a notch or two at practices, or so the boy t...

This article appeared in last Monday's newspaper. In the week since its original publication, I'm sorry to report, there are no upd...

Jon Scieszka, children’s book author and the nation’s first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, founded Guys Read to “to m...

The latest entry to the ever expanding and impressive Toon-Books collection is Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking from author Philip Coudray...

As Chapter One opens, Oz Keiller laments the blaring six o’clock Saturday morning alarm clock. By page four he’s grumbling about having to...

Bedtime comes before prime time TV games end, and as I type this morning my son is still asleep. He doesn't know yet that the answer ...

By the title of the book, you can probably guess the featured Star Wars character in Tom Angleberger’s sequel to The Strange Case of Origa...

Imagine a typical middle school. It’s morning, before classes, in the library. Sixth graders congregate to finish homework and play on com...

Not our truck and not our dirt, but you get the picture. When I was a kid, riding in the back of a pickup truck was, if not a regular occ...

I was recently given the honor of reviewing  The Dragon's Tooth by N. D. Wilson for The Rabbit Room , a website started by musician ...

Preparing for summer camp can be a stressful experience. Getting to camp, putting all that preparation to good use, and actually leaving a...

The big out-of-town, extended-time-on-the-beach, time-to-read vacation week fell during July. Add to that some reading I needed to do for ...

It's the end of the week and time for another Five O'Clock Friday update on books read but maybe not reviewed. Looking back, June w...

Back on track with Five O'Clock Friday and the May update. May: 3:15 Episode #2 by Patrick Carman 3:15 Episode #3 by Patrick Carman 3:...

Three weeks into this grand blog experiment called Five O'Clock Friday and I've already missed a post. And I can't even rememb...

Readers were introduced to Doug Swieteck in the 2008 Newbery Honor winning book The Wednesday Wars . He’s mentioned by name seven times in...

We're up to March in the look back at books I've read but might not have reviewed yet. (See more information here .) It was spring...

"You're killing me, Smalls!" The official youth baseball season has ended and along with it ends my coaching stint for thi...

As the summer progresses, I'm letting readers know what I've read earlier in the year before I start a weekly "Other Stuff I Re...