My rating: 3 of 5 stars Help Wanted by Richie Tankersley Cusick is about (fyi, the Goodreads description is incorrect) a high schooler named Robin, who answers an ad to work in the old, enormous house of Mr. Swanson, cataloguing books belonging to his late daughter-in-law. Robin goes to work…

My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Drifter by Richie Tankersley Cusick is about Carolyn and her mother, who, after the death of Carolyn’s father, find out that they’ve inherited an old house from their old aunt. Carolyn’s mother desires to turn the old house into a bed and…

My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Trick or Treat, Martha, a sixteen-year-old high school student, moves into a new house with her dad, new step-mom and step-brother. She hates the situation, having been torn from her happy life in Chicago. Matters get worse, however, when she realizes that the…

A Tale of the Woods — I went to the tavern on Monday last to heal my heart at the barman’s keg and to hear a distracting tale of the past from the man who sings till the ale’s last dreg But this evening something was amiss there were no sounds of excitement and awe but low murmurs…

My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dark Matter is a story about a broke young man in 1937, who joins a group going on an expedition to the Arctic. …

My rating: 3 of 5 stars D (A Tale of Two Worlds is about a girl, Dhikilo, who lives in Cawber-on-Sands with her adoptive parents, and goes to school where no one knows anything about Somaliland. One day, Dhikilo finds that all of the Ds are disappearing from words. After…

Ghosts don’t hang out in graveyards that isn’t where they last where memories hit them hard where ties to life hold fast Ghosts don’t hang out in graveyards unless some morbid priest or undertaker care for the more thoroughly deceased Ghosts don’t hang out in graveyards but do you know who…