Reviews written by Bethany Wicker, Listings Manager & Staff Reviewer

Hana loves k-dramas so starring in her own drama should be no big deal. But when they receive bad ratings, she agrees to fake date her co-star Bryan. It's something she can handle without a problem, until her producers decide to throw in more tension with a love triangle. ...

Plunger is sick of cleaning toilets and wants to celebrate something beautiful instead. Something like flowers that both smell and look nice. So, plunger gets the brilliant idea to become a vase, but vacuum is completely against it. Vacuum claims that you can't be something you weren't made to be....

Since birth, Charis has always been taught by her mother, the queen, that to rule a kingdom, you have to be the most powerful and feared person in the room. To be as deadly as the knife in your hand. There isn't time for meaningless things like friendship or love....

BEHOLD OUR MAGICAL GARDEN is a collection of poems written to inspire children aged eight and up to explore all of the amazing things gardening has to offer. The content ranges from seeds, to vegetables, incorporating the watering of each root and the part the sun plays, and to the...

Children view the world from a unique perspective and TAKE OFF YOUR BRAVE gives us some insight into the mind of a preschooler. Nadim, a four year old, has written poems inspired by his every day life. There's his mom, his sister, bedtime and bath time, his best friend, and...

After getting tangled in a drug scandal, Georgie Darcy falls out of everyone's good graces, including her brother's. He doesn't trust her to make good decisions anymore and she'll do whatever it takes to prove him wrong. The only problem is that her ex, Wickham, is back and tries to...

After one tragic night lands Katie in the hospital, both her brother Truman and her best friend Eden have to learn to live in a world without her. Both of them grieve in completely different ways. Eden shuts down, preferring her dark room over talking to other people. Truman had...

Joy loves to tinker with things and fix them up, just like her Granddad. While searching for her next project with him, they discover an old, rusty bike that needs a lot of care. But nothing is too big of a job for Joy, and with the help of her...

OUT OF THIS WORLD is a compilation of haikus that describe the different things we see in space, like planets, asteroids, moons, eclipses, and more. With each haiku is a stunning illustration which are truly out of this world with their bold colors and realistic feel. My daughter enjoyed looking...

Poopsie is your typical house cat that loves to nap and lick herself all day. But when the narrator talks her into leaving the house, she finds herself on a daring and dangerous adventure full of snakes, crocodiles, and tigers. Which is not at all what she bargained for. Poopsie...

In most pirate literature, the main character is usually a male, even in historical stories. It's nice seeing some female representation, especially how Leigh Lewis lays everything out to give you a little bit of everything. There are both cartoon-style illustrations and real photos which is more appealing. The only...

JUST TRY ONE BITE is a humor-filled story with a role reversal between the children and the parents. Most parents want their children to eat healthy, but we don't always apply those same rules to ourselves. While we don't always give the option for our children, we still choose chips...

Ruth Mason was always active when she was younger. One day, while running through her prairie, she stumbled upon the strangest things in her own backyard. Determined to figure out what they were, she wrote to several different people asking them to take a look at her discoveries. As she...

HELLO, PUDDLE is a unique children's book that makes the reader look at puddles from a different perspective. Whether people jump in a puddle or completely avoid it, they don't realize the use that one piece of water has for animals. They help snails stay wet, ducks find bugs, birds...

"Dear Teacher, you make me feel like I matter, no matter what." DEAR TEACHER is a cute story that is written in a way so it reads like messages for a teacher. Poems and letters that are lyrical are and flow easily off the tongue....