Praise for Good Dog : * "Action-packed, highly suspenseful, and deeply moving. Perfect." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review Praise for The Honest Truth : A New York Times Editors' Choice selection An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month An Indie Next List selection * "An emotionally hard-hitting survival story. A gripping page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "An impressive combination of suspenseful adventure thriller and cancer narrative. Touching but unsentimental, this is a deeply moving adventure." -- Booklist "Gemeinhart presents a rousingly riveting two-hanky read.

" -- Kirkus Reviews Praise for Some Kind of Courage : A 2017-2018 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee * "This is true adventure with strong underpinnings of moral courage and love. Poignant and real." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review * "Exhilarating and enthralling, Courage promises even the most reluctant readers a breakneck adventure that will keep them turning the pages with utter devotion." -- Booklist , starred review "This is a terrific book, morally thoughtful and wonderfully well told, that 9- to 14-year-olds are likely to cover at a gallop." -- The Wall Street Journal Praise for Scar Island : An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month A Junior Library Guild selection * " Lord of the Flies set on Alcatraz. It's grotesque, compelling, over-the-top, yet fully realized, and nothing like Gemeinhart's previous work. Children who respond to it well will read it over and over again.

" -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review " Holes meets Lord of the Flies in this fast-paced novel. Told with pathos and compassion, this rises above the label of survival story and examines the way truth and redemption are interconnected in one troubled boy's life." -- Booklist "A poignant, action-packed story with references to classics Robinson Crusoe and Lord of the Flies . Gemeinhart creates a compulsively readable story with enough teasers to keep the mystery alive until the very end." -- School Library Journal.