Children-Middle Grade-Young Adult

Guppy Butter

Cute for kids, a bit twisted and funny for adults! A Guppy??

But I wanted a Puppy! Guppy Butter is the darkly humorous tale of a young girl's wish for a puppy, but who ends up getting a Guppy instead.

She tries her best to meet her father's demands that if she can keep a fish alive, she'll be allowed to get a puppy.

Tragedy after humorous tragedy ensues as she endures th ...

Obluvium: Sanctuary

Eleven-year-old Elise converses with animals. Her twin brother, Frankie, unwittingly opens portals to other worlds. As if fitting in with their strange abilities at St. Dominic’s Children’s Home wasn’t hard enough, sinister men appear one day in search of the twins. Aided by their formidable librarian, Frankie and Elise evade capture and flee across the country. They find themselves in hiding on a ...

Kestrel Island

An action-packed story of friendship and courage, with evil villains and desperate escapes. Sophie Watson isn't expecting much excitement when she visits her uncle on the English coast. But when she befriends a strange and charismatic girl called Sienna she is drawn into a thrilling adventure where the future security of the world may be under threat. To find out the truth they must go to Kestrel ...

Musiville: Let's face the music and... conduct

"Jalina (5 yo) loves Musiville. She's decided she wants to learn to play a musical instrument, but doesn't know which one yet." ~ S.K. Nicholls A group of animals has evolved into musical instruments and have formed their own little village: Musiville. When everyone starts playing their own tune, however, an invader starts tearing down their buildings. Who can save Musiville from this unexpect ...

The Brooch: A Magic Within

The Brooch: A Magic Within- A little girl helps a hungry lady with her candy of the week. The lady gives her a brooch with something written over it. The brooch keeps passing hands which keeps inspiring everyone to do something which normally they would be reluctant to do. The children's book with a purpose. Children’s books are more than just words or illustrations. They are journeys into the ima ...

10 Kind Kittens: Which One Are You Today?

Meet ten cute kittens, and let them inspire kindness in your kids! In an era when bad manners, rudeness, and intolerance are sadly part of daily life, Sylvie Starkweather's picture books make learning traditional family values a pleasure for today's children. Bright, retro styles make her books entertaining for both the adult and child reader.

For The Beautiful People

Adeline Jamieson has been bullied by her used-to-be best friend, Payton, since the seventh grade. She takes every chance she can to make Adeline feel worthless.

As Adeline's life begins its down hill spiral, she befriends Karlee, a captivating girl with Down's Syndrome who shows her that life does go on and that you can’t give up on that small glimmer of hope. Will Karlee teach A ...

Stuck in Time

A brother with a mysterious life-threatening condition! The Baxters need to find their uncle for help, but he's lost in time. If they don't locate him, their brother might die. What started as a vacation with their uncle became an adventure these three English schoolchildren could never have imagined. Who would have thought Uncle Archie had built a time machine? If they don't learn how to work ...

Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

Cleo loves bows. She wears her hair in a bow and decorates her room with bows. Cleo is bow crazy.Learning to tie a bow is very difficult for some people but Cleo remembers how to do it from a cute story she once heard. It is about a little rabbit with very long ears and a very helpful fox who shows her what to do to keep them clean. This is the story of how Cleo learns to tie a “bunny ear” bow.Exe ...

Oliver Griffon and the Witch's Curse

Oliver Griffon can’t stay out of trouble. And he’s gotten into a heap of it this time. In the waning days of October, strange magical events happen around Orchard Hollow, the little town where Oliver lives. He soon finds himself and his friends cursed to die on Halloween by the town witch. But other mysterious forces are at work around Oliver, too. If he and his friends play their cards right, the ...

The Kilwade Tragedy

"Amazingly graphic, terrifyingly real-life and current time. A parental must read." Terry Keys, USA Today bestselling author of Lie No More and The Missing pens his most captivating book to date. This is the heart-breaking story about a small-town boy who’d taken everything from everyone until he could take no more. Seventeen-year-old Blaze Planter is a Jr. at Kilwade, High School. His parents hav ...

Top Secret: Diary 1 (Confessions of a Nerdy Girl)

My first zit … my first bra … my first kiss. My birth mom missed them all. She should have been there to tell me it was fine, to reassure me and hold my hand when I got scared. Instead, now I’ll never get the chance to meet her because my dad’s moving us two thousand miles away—to California. But she needs to know what’s happening. She has to understand what’s going on in my life, what’s important ...

Stuck 1855: Lucy Travels East.

Lucy is on her own in 1855! Will she survive? Lucy Baxter is at the forefront of this standalone time travel novella. She imagines she is simply going to take up the position of a companion to a young Victorian girl in genteel London but is surprised when she meets the adventurous Sarah. Or is she Sally? Very quickly, events move out of her control, and she finds herself on a journey that she c ...

Ivan the Giant

Ivan Morrow has spent his short life waiting for things to happen. Now something has happened. An unknown ancestor has entrusted him with something of great value and it has gone missing. But who stole it and how to get it back? He's grown extraordinarily over the last year since turning eleven, but his mind is stuck in a kid-sized brain. Now he must match wits with a desperate thief if he is to h ...

Eudora Space Kid: The Lobster Tale

"... the comical wish fulfillment of being let loose on a starship." - Kirkus Reviews

The greatest lobster heist in space! The second in the Eudora Space Kid series: a hilariously funny, early reader sci-fi chapter book perfect for elementary-aged kids. Can Eudora and her best friend, Arnold, rescue her favorite lobsters from becoming the ...

Esme's Wish: A wondrous world awaits

When Esme Silver objects at her father’s wedding, her protest is dismissed as the action of a stubborn, selfish teenager. Everyone else has accepted the loss of Esme’s mother, Ariane – so why can’t she? But Esme is suspicious. She is sure that others are covering up the real reason for her mother’s disappearance – that ‘lost at sea’ is code for something more terrible, something she has a right to ...

A Baseball Story

In this highly rated, briskly paced novella involving far more than America’s pastime, an older man befriends an angry young boy following one of his disastrous practices. The boy is clearly the worst player on his team, yet he is desperate to improve. So the man sets out to give him some pointers about the game and possibly about life, amid initial reservations from the boy’s mother, along with v ...

Down with the Dance

Middle School Mayhem: Down with the Dance is the first book in this action-packed, hilarious series. Meet Austin Davenport, whose fabulous luck landed him on this earth only eleven short months after his brother, Derek, putting them in the same grade. While Austin's brain power is unmatched, it appears as if his brother got all the athletic gifts and the family butt-chin, meaning their parents lov ...

The Mysterious Bat-Bee

A family full of magical secrets. An enemy who practices the dark arts. Can Thomas and Julia defeat a fearsome foe and find an enchanted cure? Living with their grandparents, Thomas and Julia's quiet life is cruelly disrupted when their grandfather is stung by a creepy large bee with bat wings. Upset and worried as he grows sicker by the hour, they hope anxiously that their newly discovered great- ...

The LoGlas Theater

A junior higher dares to direct the school play. Can she handle her cast of peers? Aimi Wilby has a never-say-quit spirit. Arriving early and staying late at the theater, the 8th-grader is determined to stage a successful production. Not even an absent mentor, infighting cast members, an apathetic school administration or overbearing parents will deter her. Aimi resolves that even if she must play ...

Boos Shoes - A Rabbit And Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces

No Laces! That’s what Boo, the bunny, always says. He doesn’t want to learn to tie them. He has plenty of shoes for every occasion and none of them have laces or strings. So, what’s the point of learning to tie? His friend, Farah Fox, convinces him that it’s a skill he can use. . . and one that might make him happier, too. This book is meant to be a parent-child activity. Youngsters can read Boo’s ...