In The Third Kind of Magic (Crow Magic, Book 1) by Elizabeth Forest, 12-year-old Suli Wing wants to apprentice as a wise woman. When she accidentally used magic on a girl who bullied her brother, her grandmother sent her to another village to train with...

"Take Cover!" with Miss Poly Loly is a children’s adventure tale written by Karen Avril and illustrated by Michelle Dybing. Mason wakes to a house full of mayhem. His baby brother, Gabriel, is being fed breakfast by his mother. Mason’s sister, Ellie, is complaining that...

Emma and the Banderwigh: Tales of Widowswood Book 1 by Matthew S. Cox is a fantastical children's story that revolves around ten-year-old Emma who lives with her parents, her brother Tam, and her Nan in a small two-bedroom house. Her mother helps in the village...

Boudin's First Christmas (Boudin's Grand Adventures) by Leah Morris is a very quick read that will delight the hearts of young readers, especially those who love animals. I read it with my seven-year-old son in one sitting, studying the illustrations and enjoying the cute verses,...

All the other children at Bastilly’s School for the Ungifted, Average, and Unchosen tease Saskia and call her a freak. After a particularly terrible day, in which her class is more shocked than entertained by her fairy tale presentation, Saskia runs home through the Spooky...

The Flying Glass by E.M. Cooper is the first book of the Fanglewick School of Magic series. After Marnie Speck is left with her new foster family in Downfell, northern England, she immediately bonds with fellow orphan, Seb, who takes her under his wing. When...

The Most Curious Case of the Runaway Spoon by Tony Flannagan revolves around Amelia, who is a teenager now, and she wakes up to find a letter behind the little green door. Amelia had always found notes and letters tucked behind the little green door...

Magdalena Gottschalk: The Slippery Slope is an action and adventure fantasy story for preteens written by M. Gail Grant. Magdalena was finally feeling healed after her extraordinary adventures that fall. Just sitting in the park watching as the Christmas season unfolded around her and wrapped...

Heaven is a place filled with love and it can be seen in the form of twinkling stars called Twinkles. In the adorable story MaMa Pajama: Twinkles From Heaven by Mary Gavila, children see a small yellow building with a brown roof in a small,...

Meet Miki the baby dragon in Miki and the Human Baby by Karen Avril. He is one of the few dragons left on the planet. At some point, dragons outnumbered humans, but not so anymore. Humans are continually increasing while dragons seem to decrease in...