Summer is gone and Fall is finally in full swing. There’s nothing like curling up under the covers with a good book when the air is growing crisp and the days are growing short.

Now isn’t the time to pull out Summer paperbacks of beach escapades and vacations; you need meaty books that make you want to read by flashlight all night.

Autumn’s books are sure to not disappoint; now all you have to do is figure out which one you’ll read first.

When the writing experts said to write what you know, Sara Lewis Holmes must have taken notes. Holmes, whose debut novel “Letters From Rapunzel” put her on the kidlit map in 2007, is back and is drawing on her own experience as an Air Force wife and mother of two in her new book “Operation Yes.”

While Summer is definitely time for playing (and exploring), sometimes what we all need is the chance to sit down with our own new literary discovery and go to a far away place, even if just for a little while…and some of the best books for doing this are the middle grade novels. Books bring us on the vacations we didn’t take, introduce us to friends we haven’t yet met and make anything seem possible