The Snake and the Tree by Leslie Cole starts with a seventh-grader named Max Miller who is sidelined by a bad foot injury right when he wants to shine at soccer. Things get worse when he accidentally breaks his neighbor Ti’s window with a baseball...

The Marvelous Little Frog is a whimsical, action-packed children’s story, penned and gorgeously illustrated by Alain Brousseau. Olivier has never been afraid of anything. When he wakes up at dawn, long before anyone else in the magic forest, to a strange, powerful blue light glowing...

The Horn of Caninia by Eddie Ferguson follows twelve-year-old Ian Richards, who's dreading his family's move from San Antonio to a sprawling old house out in Texas bayou country, mosquitoes and all. But the backyard hides more than swamp water. Ian finds strange symbols carved...

The Cerberus Project by Sabine Meyer follows Billie and Jo, two best friends who grew up together in an orphanage and look so alike they're often mistaken for twins. Every summer they're pulled through a vortex of time and dropped into some of history's darkest...

Time Travel Academy: Kurt Rogers and the Four Crystals of Time by Reginald Williams follows Kurt Rogers, a twelve‑year‑old boy who has spent a year trying to hide an ability that shattered his classroom windows. When an invitation to the Time Travel Academy arrives, he...

Charity Tober’s The Robot Games follows thirteen-year-old Sam Bridger, a young mechanic living in Old Atlas, the poorer half of futuristic Atlas City. Robots fill the streets, virtual reality fills the arcades, and the Robot Battle League turns giant fighting machines into the city’s biggest...

The Wishkeeper’s Daughter by Michele Ashman Bell starts with a loss. Twelve-year-old Pippa Rowe loses her mother and finds herself alone in the world. It is then that the mirror in her bedroom begins to glow and speak her name, pulling her into Wishmoor Academy,...

In The Twilight Walker by Nic Minnella, eleven-year-old Finn Garcia is on a camping trip with his family and his magical guardian cat, Pepper. They’re joined by their friend Maya and her family, the Cedars, but they’re not happy campers. His parents keep arguing, and...

Catherine Ann Russell’s The Chosen Path gives us a front-row seat to an emotional ride with the main character, Princess Journee. She unintentionally disrupts her kingdom’s traditions, and her only real way to fix things is by tackling a difficult trial to earn her royal...

In Larry Good and Meredith Good’s The Tree of Ticket Leaves, Meri misses a voyage to England when sudden illness keeps her behind in Virginia. The next morning, she sees a battered tackling dummy stand up and walk away from the football field where he...