(3) 4-6 Calico: Time Twisters series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Luis and his friends, siblings Casey and Tyler (plus Tyler's robot cat, Steel), embark on four adventures after discovering Nikola Tesla's Time Twister machine. While confronting aliens and underwater cities in the future and haunted houses and ancient curses in the past, they endeavor to rescue Luis's uncle Cyrus, who's stuck in time. A lively middle-grade time-travel series with appealing comics-like illustrations. Review covers these Calico: Time Twisters titles: The Curse of Time, Haunted Time, Time and Space, and Time Under the Sea.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(3) 4-6 Calico: Time Twisters series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Luis and his friends, siblings Casey and Tyler (plus Tyler's robot cat, Steel), embark on four adventures after discovering Nikola Tesla's Time Twister machine. While confronting aliens and underwater cities in the future and haunted houses and ancient curses in the past, they endeavor to rescue Luis's uncle Cyrus, who's stuck in time. A lively middle-grade time-travel series with appealing comics-like illustrations. Review covers these Calico: Time Twisters titles: The Curse of Time, Haunted Time, Time and Space, and Time Under the Sea.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(3) 4-6 Calico: Time Twisters series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Luis and his friends, siblings Casey and Tyler (plus Tyler's robot cat, Steel), embark on four adventures after discovering Nikola Tesla's Time Twister machine. While confronting aliens and underwater cities in the future and haunted houses and ancient curses in the past, they endeavor to rescue Luis's uncle Cyrus, who's stuck in time. A lively middle-grade time-travel series with appealing comics-like illustrations. Review covers these Calico: Time Twisters titles: The Curse of Time, Haunted Time, Time and Space, and Time Under the Sea.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(3) 4-6 Calico: Time Twisters series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Luis and his friends, siblings Casey and Tyler (plus Tyler's robot cat, Steel), embark on four adventures after discovering Nikola Tesla's Time Twister machine. While confronting aliens and underwater cities in the future and haunted houses and ancient curses in the past, they endeavor to rescue Luis's uncle Cyrus, who's stuck in time. A lively middle-grade time-travel series with appealing comics-like illustrations. Review covers these Calico: Time Twisters titles: The Curse of Time, Haunted Time, Time and Space, and Time Under the Sea.

Reviewer: Grace Enriquez

(4) 1-3 Monster Heroes series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Four do-gooder monsters--a shy ghost, a beet-juice-drinking vampire, a tofu-eating zombie, and a curse-reversing witch--are loosely joined up in cheesy episodes meant to encourage early readers. The print is large, the chapters are short, and each story's lightweight problem is quickly solved by the "superheroes." Full-color illustrations ensure these characters seem silly rather than scary. Questions and writing prompts are appended. Glos. Review covers the following Monster Heroes titles: The Ghost Trap and Vampires and Veggies.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) 1-3 Monster Heroes series. Illustrated by Dave Bardin. Four do-gooder monsters--a shy ghost, a beet-juice-drinking vampire, a tofu-eating zombie, and a curse-reversing witch--are loosely joined up in cheesy episodes meant to encourage early readers. The print is large, the chapters are short, and each story's lightweight problem is quickly solved by the "superheroes." Full-color illustrations ensure these characters seem silly rather than scary. Questions and writing prompts are appended. Glos. Review covers the following Monster Heroes titles: The Ghost Trap and Vampires and Veggies.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo