This week, The Ten-Year-Old puts down her screen for some old-school fun, courtesy of the folks behind Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun. She also spent quite a lot of time being appalled at the conditions Japanese Americans endured during WWII, after reading The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13599, Mirror Lake Internment Camp.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old does the nearly impossible — finds a not-too-scary book about vampires (Fangtastic! by Sienna Mercer) and a not-too-scary book about space (Terra: Crash Course by Landry Q. Walker).

During this week’s trip to our local library, The Ten-Year-Old discovered Doreen Cronin’s The Chicken Squad series. Of course, now that she’s realized that the book she picked out is actually the second book in the series, and not the first, she’s lobbying to go back to the library STAT. My master plan is working nicely.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester and Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Planet Tad by Tim Carvell and Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise and Sarah Klise.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers Cornelia Funke’s Dragon Rider.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old dives into summer with a book of scary (but not too scary) stories to tell around a campfire. Hal Johnson’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods echoes an America gone by, when the woods were large and full of shadows for unknown beasts to lurk in.

This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams and begins a new series from an old favorite, Lauren Myracle.