This charming Young Adult novel is a fantasy lover’s delight. Rose goes with a White Bear who is really a man who loses his “life” to the Troll Queen. This Troll Queen keeps him enchanted to make him all hers up in the Ice Palace where Rose journeys to free him. This is a retelling …

This novel has become one of my all-time favorites – Young Adult or Children or Adult. It is intricately written, has interesting characters and delves into an ancient culture. Joelle who is adopted by Aunt Mary Louise and Uncle Vernon, befriends a boy named Carlos. Together they hike to the “crying rocks” where years earlier, …

Thomas learns that his nice, normal, little family is not human, but made at the Angel Factory, a place where beings from far beyond our universe come to be transformed into human-like beings. They are not here to hurt us but to try to save our planet and the humans who live there. I love …

I enjoyed this God-centered book immensely. It uses the Chat Room style as a mini-example of today’s youth – the young believer, the skeptic, the girl on-the-fence about God, and, of course, the lost soul. The believer tries to be a friend first and a witness second, and much to his surprise, God decides to …

This is by far my favorite Historical Fiction novel for Young Adults. The details of the time and place (1666 English countryside) are just riveting and so realistic as to bring me back to that terrible year when The Plague ravaged England. Poor Anna Frith must come to terms with the death of those she …