The Book Shire

Little Brown Books for Young Readers

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

"And despite myself, despite what he'd done and what he was, I came to love him. I do love him. ... It's just not a comfortable kind of love."  - The Cruel [...]

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Move over, Harry, because there's a new magical world coming to town, and it's about to get real. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up a review copy [...]

Bang by Barry Lyga

I wasn't really sure what to expect when I started reading this one, and it hit me like a punch to the gut basically on page one. Sebastian Cody accidentally [...]

The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

Last year, Carrie Firestone’s The Loose Ends List was definitely on my top books of 2016 list. It was uproariously unrepentant and unprecedented in its [...]