Everyone thinks Max’s sister is braver than he is, and he’s sick of it. He’s determined to prove he is the bravest squirrel ever. He devises a plan for the humans to trap him, so he can rescue his Uncle Louie. But things don’t go according to plan. First, he is forgotten in the [...]
Tags: acorn, adventure, animal, brave, chapter book, coyote, juvenile fiction, middle grade, Squirrel, trap
Posted in Early Readers, Fiction-Humor, Middle Grade, Short Stories (Anthology) |
The sizzling second edition. A storm is brewing. High on a mountain in Central Europe a vengeful chaos lord has managed to get a terrifying device to do his bidding. The future of the whole of mankind is at stake, and only a plucky band of luck goblins can possibly stop him. [...]
Tags: fantasy, Fiction-Humor, middle grade, paranormal, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, young adult
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction-Humor, Middle Grade, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, Young Adult |
In 1237, a man journeys to a priory in Yorkshire to seek refuge and treatment for battle wounds. He is betrayed and murdered. His final, dying act is to fire an arrow through a window, asking to be buried where it lands. Nearly eight hundred years later, a schoolboy’s incredible discovery will lead [...]
Tags: fantasy, historical, middle grade, Novella, paranormal, Robin Hood, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, young adult
Posted in Fantasy, Historical, Middle Grade, Novella, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, YA Paranormal, Young Adult |
Tiny fairies. Huge adventure. Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she’s always wanted, and it’s a bad thing. Being a babysitter isn’t much of a dream for the average thirteen-year-old, but Matilda is anything but average. She’s half a centimeter tall, invisible to the human eye, and hearing-impaired. Her mother won’t let her [...]
Tags: action/adventure, fairies, fairy tale, fantasy, middle grade, myth, YA
Posted in Action, Fantasy, Middle Grade |
Every 25,800 years, when the Sun has made a reverse cycle through the Zodiac and rests in the eye of Sagittarius (the archer), the temporal and celestial planes touch. The Eye of the Archer, the new novel by Jeffrey Marcus Oshins, author, musician and filmmaker, tells of the arrival of the first deities and [...]
Tags: 12, 12-21-12, 2012, age, apocalypse, Apokaful, Archer, Author, Aztec, bridge, calendar, cataclysm, celestial, December, Eye, film, gateway, gods, holy, Jeffrey, Marcus, Maya, Mayan, Mesoamerica, musician, mystical, mythical, mythology, new age, novel, Oshins, prophecy, sacred, Sagittarius, spirits, survivors, visions
Posted in Fantasy, General Fiction, Historical, Horror, Middle Grade, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Science Thriller, YA Dystopian, YA Paranormal |
When Tangi’s father dies, he leaves her nothing but three empty bottles. A kind uncle takes the poverty-stricken girl and her stepsisters in, and for a time life gets better on his farm. But Tangi remains a lonely outsider; her stepsisters tease her for her crippled leg, and the housekeepers use her like a [...]
Tags: African Fairytale, fairytale, fantasy, middle grade, romance, YA, young adult
Posted in Fantasy, Middle Grade, Romance, YA Romance, Young Adult |
Corie Universe Feeder: What’s not to love about digging and mud? Corie: tall, thin, scruffy, female, student, blondish, smart, creative, outspoken, trouble-finding, precocious (whatever THAT means), eager, mature, silly, immature, messy-roomed, imaginative, animal-loving girl …… ……. has actual PERMISSION FROM HER FATHER to dig a hole in the front yard of her house. As [...]
Tags: charity, childrens books, comedy, funny, green, humor, Kids, nonsense, pickle-and-fish tree, read aloud
Posted in Middle Grade |
What’s funnier than a pie in the sky? A pie in the face! How the pie gets there – along with three other pies flying in V formation during the twelfth annual Worldwide Dessert Contest – is a double scoop of a story. It begins with John Applefeller, the annual last-place finisher in the [...]
Tags: children's fantasy, fantasy, Juvenile, middle grade, Multimedia, Musical Theater
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction-Humor, Middle Grade |
Pippi the squirrel isn’t brave and has no interest in earning the title of “The Bravest Squirrel Ever.” Scared of thunder, lightning and being “flopped” by the humans, Pippi only wants to return to Mama’s warm, cozy nest. Instead, she stumbles on a better nest. There’s only one problem. It’s in dangerous, forbidden human [...]
Tags: acorn, adventure, animal, attic, brave, chapter book, children, juvenile fiction, middle grade, Squirrel, trap
Posted in Early Readers, Fiction-Humor, Middle Grade |
Aspiring ballerina Dani Spevak is thrilled when hit TV show Teen Celebrity Dance Off comes to the campus of her performing arts boarding school. She trades the barre for the ballroom and gets set to cha-cha-cha to stardom with Hollywood wonderboy Nick Galliano. At first their partnership is awkward, because Dani is in awe [...]
Posted in Cozy, Middle Grade, Mystery, YA Romance, Young Adult |
Lizzie Browning loves nothing more than her tiny, island-home of Guernsey, but when German bombs drop on her crystal beach, her peaceful world explodes. For months, the big war in Europe has been nothing more than stories in the paper, but as the enemy takes over Guernsey, the war rushes to her doorstep. For [...]
Tags: adventure, April W Gardner, children, historical, inspirational, middle grade, WWII
Posted in Historical, Middle Grade |
Who’s got time for homework when your problems involve evil sorcerers? Wanda should be studying for a quiz, avoiding the bullies at her new school and living a normal tweenage life. But, she is called upon once more to be a savior of the fairies, a protector of the fey, a Crystal Keeper. Bees [...]
Tags: children's literature, children\'s book, fairies, fairy, fairy tale, Fey, green man, Ireland
Posted in Middle Grade |
Wanda had always read about adventure. Now she was in the middle of one. The World of Fairies is real, and she is their new Crystal Keeper, human caretaker to the World of Fairies. But the Fairy World is in trouble. The fairies are falling ill from the pollution that ravages the world above. [...]
Tags: children's literature, children\'s book, fairies, fairy, fairy tale, Fey
Posted in Middle Grade |
Vice Principal Steve Lukather is desperate. Just like last year, an internet bully is terrorizing one of his students at LakelandMiddle School. Last time it ended badly when the victim was found with two slashed wrists after an attempted suicide. This year, after a series of nasty computer messages and an indiscreet photograph of [...]
Posted in Middle Grade, Mystery, Young Adult |
When Jared feels compelled to buy a majestic silver dragon statue with eyes that glow like precious rubies he initiates a chain of events that catapults him and his friends Griffin, Chase and Amber into an adventure solving the mystery of the dragon. They embark on an innocent quest, but the secrets that unfold lead them into [...]
Tags: adventure, clues, detective, fiction, mystery, silver dragon, teens, young adult
Posted in Middle Grade, Mystery, Young Adult |
How far would a villain go to help a friend? Lord Arkus of BlackriverCastlethinks doing three heroic deeds is a bit too far. Not only it’s plain detestable, it can ruin his reputation and get him in trouble with the Villains League. On the other hand, it’s not like he’s got friends to spare. [...]
Tags: adventure, fantasy, funny villain, historical fantasy, humorous fantasy, magic, mermaid, middle grade fantasy, sea serpent, villain, YA fantasy
Posted in Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult |
George is the new kid in school. He also recently lost his father to a heart attack. In an effort to cheer him up, George’s mother takes him on a camping trip. That’s when their troubles really begin. Extraterrestrials abduct both mother and son. Now George finds himself an unwilling participant in the Yumal [...]
Tags: alien abduction, science fiction, young adult, young reader
Posted in Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Young Adult |
Lord Arkus of Blackriver Castle readily admits that he is a villain and sees no reason why it should stop him from being the protagonist of this book. After all, Prince Kellemar, an aspiring hero, has defeated him in a rather questionable way. Bent on revenge, Arkus attempts to capture a powerful evil spirit [...]
Tags: fantasy, funny villain, historical fantasy, humorous fantasy, middle grade fantasy, villain, YA fantasy
Posted in Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult |