My Favorite Reads

Dahlia a girl ghost has haunted her childhood home for 50 years until one day a ghost exterminator comes to her haunted house to extinguish her.  She needs to quick learn the rules for ghosting so that she can escape!

My students consistently ask for scary books.  This book delivers.   Children are disappearing from the Biltmore Estate.  Serafina teams up with Braedan Vanderbilt to uncover the mystery of the Man in the black cloak before more children disappear.

I was not able to put this mysterious tale down.   What a great introduction to well written fantasy fiction.  It is great for Harry Potter fans who are looking for something new to read.

Moving Target is a fast paced thriller with twists and turns.  I read it like a movie in my mind.   Cassie Arroyo, an American studying in Rome, has her world ripped apart when someone tries to kill her father, an art history professor at an Italian university. Is she their next target?

Pack of Dorks is so middle school! To be popular or not to be popular?  That is the question.  Love this very realistic story of life in the preteen zone.

Saving Kabul Corner is a realistic story about a family who has migrated from Afghanistan to California.  Everything was going well until a rival family opened a market right next to Ariana's family.  On top of that stress, Ariana's perfect cousin arrives from Afghanistan  to  move in with the family literally taking over her small room.

Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym).  She has a beloved dog named Rain.  She lives alone with her dad. Life hands her some difficult situations.  How can she handle  a lost dog and a missing mother when she can't even handle the school bus ride?

An apocalyptic monster attack has destroyed the town of Wakefield, leaving gigantic, slime-filled creatures in its wake. It appears that the entire population has been turned into zombies, except for 13-year-old Jack Sullivan. Jack is an abandoned foster kid trying to survive the catastrophe while living in a tricked-out tree house.