Summary
What are kids yanking of our online shelves this summer?
The shop is always pretty quiet in the summer. My little online bookshop, Hunni Hound Books, is a children’s bookshop with specially curated online shelves. Our middle grade shelves are very popular with the neighborhood kids. We have lots of parents that reach out for our specialty. Custom curated bookshelves. They tell me what their kids have loved reading and I find other books that will make them just as excited to crack the spines. I’m like Nancy Drew of the online bookshop world. This month it’s been lots of young summer romance and cozy horror.
Books for the Young Romantic
A group of girls in the neighborhood put together a book club with the Love and Gelato series by Jenna Evans Welch. They want fun and sweet and sad and all the drama in between. The Love and Gelato series will be a match made in heaven for those readers that swoon over Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series.
Or is it Chills You Desire?
The International House of Dereliction by Jacqueline Davies and Tales to Keep You Up At Night by Dan Poblocki and illustrated by Marie Bergeron were two that seemed to connect with my young clients.
The International House of Dereliction is a “not-to-spooky” step into scares with charming and quirky characters that younger readers will love. If you’ve already finished it and want more, try The House with a Clock in its Walls! A new classic that is quirky, sweet and still gives a few chills. 
Tales To Keep You Up At Night will give readers a real scare and has a unique story structure that will pull in more advanced readers. Already been kept up all night by Tales to Keep You Up At Night? Try The Clackity by Laura Senf! The Clackity delivers with cool atmospheric settings, characters facing down fears and solid scares.
I have to say I am in more of a spooky moment myself. I’m dreaming of sweaters and falling leaves and jack-o-lanterns. Summer’s been great! But I’m ready for some chills. What season are you in? Whatever season it is, we will see you at the bookstore!
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Her ultimate dream was to run off and hide away in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but a close second was owning a bookshop. So opened a cozy little online and pop up bookshop called Hunni Hound Books.
She blogs about writing family and all that falls in between. She has also written articles and short stories for The Plaid Horse Magazine, Typishly, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Root and Star Magazine, and The Newnan Time Herald. She has attended Big Sur Children's Writing Workshop and The Southhampton Literature Conference.