BOOK REVIEW – London Calling: City Spies #6

by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An audiobook. LONDON CALLING, the sixth City Spies adventure by James Ponti, is another amazing story about the young Special MI-6 spies whom the Second-in-Command of British espionage, calls “those magnificent children.” Each of these kids, aged from 9 to 14, was once orphaned and then found in…

BOOK REVIEW – Frozen In Time: an Epic Story of Survival

Mitchell Zuckoff (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin    Frozen In Time is an extraordinary true story about WWII servicemen on missions who crashed their war planes on Greenland’s ice cap in 1942-3 and the daring and sometimes unsuccessful attempts at rescuing them. It’s about human survival under unendurable circumstances, valor, and selflessness beyond…

BOOK REVIEW – The Mystery of Smugglers Cove, Book 1

Audible Audiobook – Unabridged – Paul Moxham (Author, Publisher), Anne-Lise Kadri(Narrator)   THE MYSTERY OF SMUGGLERS COVE is a fun kids’ adventure-mystery book. It’s the beginning of the 20-book Mystery Series by Paul Moxham. Dire situations to overcome on every page will keep readers holding their breaths and rapidly turning pages, to see what’s next, and how will…

Book Review – Big Game

by Dan Smith  (Author) An Book Review by Jackie Houchin Wow! What an adventure! Impossible to put down. A 12-year-old boy, on the even of his birthday, goes into the dense forest of Northern Finland to hunt with the tribal bow and arrows. He is to bring in some trophy to prove he is a man. A…

Book Review: My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George a book review by Jackie Houchin MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN by Jean Craighead George is an engrossing tale of a boy who ran away from home in the city, and never when back. He became instead what the newspapers later called “a wild boy.” But in truth he was not…