(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Kelly Murphy. Between settling ghosts at her haunted middle school and suspecting her own dead father might be haunting her, unofficial appeasement specialist Rosa (A Properly Unhaunted Place) has bigger worries than the bullying from other students. Meanwhile, her best friend Jasper investigates a haunting at the off-season Renaissance Festival grounds. A well-crafted plot reveals resonant themes and new depths of conflict in this worthy sequel.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Kelly Murphy. When an unnaturally animated bobcat with a skull for a head crashes the famously unhaunted town of Ingot's annual Renaissance Festival, it's up to new friends Rosa and Jasper to find out what the restive spirit wants. The town's backstory and the ghost are intimately related, and readers will follow along avidly as Alexander's exciting episodes and resonant images lay out the connections.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2017

(3) 4-6 Earth's ambassador, Gabe Fuentes, is stranded on the moon when he should be fighting off the Outlast from galaxy take-over and finding his father, who was deported to Mexico. With Nadia, Earth's preceding ambassador, and Kaen, ambassador of a human-like alien race, Gabe fights to save both the galaxy and his earthly family. Alexander builds believable worlds in this entertaining sequel to Ambassador.

Reviewer: Jenn Matters

(2) 4-6 A shape-shifting creature called "the Envoy" informs eleven-year-old Gabe that it has appointed him Earth's ambassador to "everyone else." Gabe travels across space (while he's asleep) to the Embassy. When he wakes up back home, he discovers his father is to be deported to Mexico the next day--and one of the other ambassadors is trying to kill Gabe. A meaty and entertaining novel.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014

(2) 4-6 A goblin gives young Kaile a bone flute, and she plays a song so powerful that her shadow, a.k.a. Shade, separates from her, a sure sign to her family that Kaile is dead (she isn't). Although many characters populate this Goblin Secrets companion, only Kaile is fully realized, her development evident in the light, sometimes caustic banter between her and Shade.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2013

(4) 4-6 Theater is outlawed for the humans of Zombay. But when orphan Rownie flees witch Graba's custody, he joins a performance troupe of goblins he hopes can help locate his brother (who disappeared after illegally acting); the goblins hope Rownie can prevent catastrophe from befalling the city. Rownie's journey is obscured by too many fantastical elements, but the setting is imaginative.

Reviewer: Randy Ribay