Get ready for a festive holiday season with this new Christmas Books 2025 guide! Romance, Fiction, YA, Mystery - every genre ...

Below is a summary of Sandwich by Catherine Newman, a review, a character guide, and an explanation of the ending. Sandwich ...

I have always loved mysteries. If you have followed Jackie and me for a while, you will know that The Westing Game has always been one of my favorite books. In recent years, there have been so many ...

The Lunar Chronicles is a YA fairy-tale retelling/sci-fi series that I read and loved. With its popularity came a prequel novella, a short story, and two graphic novels. I wanted to make a list of the ...

The 2026 Reading Challenge is here! This will be the 9th reading challenge since Jackie and I started Beyond the Bookends. We love seeing how much the challenge has grown and how much all of you have ...

The Harry Potter books may be the series that started the trend of books with magical schools for kids, but it is not the ...

Finding historical fiction books for middle school aged children can be a little more challenging than you think. Kids ages ...

Kirsten and I noticed that family inheritance novels have become a popular subgenre of books in the last few years. We have become a little bit obsessed. These books have it all, and I wanted to put ...

Jackie and I created the summer reading challenges in 2021, when we kept hearing people say they didn’t know what to read. The pandemic was starting to fade out, but everyone’s reading habits were ...

The last seasonal reading challenge to launch here at Beyond the Bookends was our spring reading challenge, which launched in 2023. But don’t let the final roll-out fool you, the spring reading ...

One of the things Jackie and I are known for is our seasonal reading challenges – the fall reading challenges below! Released at the start of each new season, we work hard to come up with fun and ...

I have an Honors Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Western Ontario. I have worked as a ...