Puget Sound Council
For Reviewing Children's & Young Adult Literature
Connecting readers with quality children's and young adult books through trusted peer reviews.
Welcome
Welcome to the (new & improved!) review management system for the Puget Sound Council. Please access the features of this site via the menu bar above.
If you have questions or comments, cannot locate a book, or need to report an error, please contact pugetsoundcouncil@gmail.com.
For questions about membership, how-tos, and issues that are not site-related, please contact Eve Datisman at datseve@gmail.com.
Schedule of Events
General Meeting Dates — 2025–2026
Time: 9:00 – 11:00 AM
Location: Shoreline Conference Center, Professional Library, Building H
Sat, Sep 13, 2025
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Sat, Nov 15, 2025
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Sat, Jan 10, 2026
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Sat, Mar 7, 2026
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Sat, May 2, 2026
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Sat, Jun 6, 2026
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Reminder:
PSC 2025 dues are due January 1, 2026. Oral reviews must be posted by Wednesday 11:59 PM before the meeting.
The Shoreline Conference Center Professional Library is open 7:00 – 4:30 weekdays during the school year. Members are encouraged to drop by and pick up books at your convenience. Please call Tina Marier at 206.393.4225 or email tina.marier@ssd412.org to make sure the room is available.
How to Review Books
Important:
When finished writing a review, make sure you change the "Published" setting to "Yes." Otherwise, it will not be visible to others.
Oral Reviews
Books reviewed at the following meeting. Usually first-time authors, particularly noteworthy books, or discussion-worthy books. Oral books are returned and donated to charities.
Written Reviews
Books not reviewed orally. After reviews are submitted, these books may be added to your library collection.
Steps to Review
- Select the books you wish to review. We have a responsibility to review all books sent to us by publishers — please review them in a timely manner.
- At the meeting, separate your books into Oral and Written piles.
- Use the scanner to enter your choices. Select your name from the dropdown, choose oral or written, and scan the ISBN for each book.
- To enter a finished review: Log in, go to Reviews → My Reviews To Do, select a book, fill out the fields, and set "Published" to save.
Rating Scale
Recent Reviews
THE BIG BAD WOLF MURDER
by BELL, P G (2026)
In a world where intelligent wolves and humans co-exist there is one big thing that unites them--the Tooth and Claw games. In the games young teams of humans are pitted against a big bad wolf throu...
After Life
by Forman, Gayle (2025)
Amber is somehow reunited with her family after being dead for 7 years. Her younger sister is now a teenager (and is really the best character in the book). Everyone obviously is shocked and is str...
Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear
by Valdez, Marissa (2025)
A humorous story about a little french hedgehog and the love for his underwear. The hedgehog shows bravery and finds the courage to share his love with the world. This story is silly but also a gre...
Greenwild : The Forest In The Sky
by Thomson, Pari (2025)
In this final installment of the popular Greenwild series by Pari Thomson, we join Daisy and co. as they are about to leave Iffenwild, headed for Amazeria in the heart of Brazil. Max, the newly cro...
Do You See The Tiger?
by Ardagh, Philip (2025)
Rhyming picture book appropriate for rea aloud for preschoolers to K or 1st. Penny and her Daddy on a rainy night go to the subway. Another child, younger than Penny, with his mother, are also wa...
Who I Am : Words I Tell Myself
by Verde, Susan (2025)
Who I Am; Words I Tell Myself is a book of affirmations for adults to share with a child. “Sometimes when I find myself struggling or feeling down or discouraged my mind tells me words that are not...
DRAGON FOLKLORE : A FIELD GUIDE
by KAISER, BRIANNA (2025)
From the “Lerner Stores” comes the Dragon Field Guides series, a middle grade collection about all things dragons, from folklore to anatomy. In Dragons Folklore, three chapters explore the thousand...
Search For Our Cosmic Neighbors
by Savage, Chloe (2025)
Commander Julia and her crew are on a space mission to answer one question: Are we alone? After searching moons and planets for ten years, the crew goes out in search of one more planet. Savage use...
TRIPPING OVER YOU : 2
by HARCUM, SUZANA (2026)
Milo and Liam have graduated high school and must face the difficulties of emerging adulthood in volume 2 of this series. As Milo and Liam attend college, find jobs, establish new friendships, navi...
Red Car To Hollywood
by Liu, Jennie (2025)
In this historical fiction novel, Ruby Chan lives in LA’s Chinatown during the 1920s. Second-generation American, she is told “one foot cannot step in two boats,” but for Ruby, white people’s racis...