eBook Listing For Genre "Children"

Auggie Spinoza is a ten-year-old boy with a secret: he is a special agent who can travel through time. Now, he finds himself locked in a desperate battle against evil forces trying to change the course of history. To defeat them, Auggie must pursue a dangerous quest to find a set of mysterious clues hidden in the past. With the help of a clever new friend and advice from a cast of famous characters with names like Jefferson, Darwin, and Plato, Auggie fights to fulfill his destiny and save his world from ruin.

Martin's sister is crying while he’s reading at the beach. What should he do? Martin tries again and again to stop his sister's sobs. Each turn-of-the-page reveals sister’s response to Martin’s antics, until she reaches for the object she wanted all along- Martin’s book! Martin's non-stop action and personality that pops off the page make this an ideal pick for young readers.

A dog moos loudly in a park and then in a veterinarian's office. A day later an infant and an adult woman are heard moo-ing in front of the town supermarket. Soon almost all the children of Rover Corner are moo-ing. The mayor calls in disease control investigators from Atlanta. The chief investigator calls Washington to report to the President's advisor. He moos! Will the world soon be speechless? Is there nothing that be done to prevent the spread of newly-discovered Moo Disease? Is the human race about to moo-tate? This is the last story in the trilogy of canine-centric stories, which also include "The dog who sighed" and "The dog who cried, 'Woof'". As always in canine-centric literature, it is the dog who is most logical.

What do you treasure and how far would you go to find it? Peter and Farren are two brothers who think adventure is sneaking into a pub or going rabbit hunting. Little do they know!

Soon the youths are on a whirlwind trip of betrayal, daggers, self-discovery and a giant reticulated python! Somehow they have to find a way to stop fighting with each other, avoid a sadistic Navy Admiral and a mysterious pirate captain whilst remembering to tap the biscuits on the side of the ship - maggots are never good for breakfast!

"If you came for treasure it lies within, if you did not, what you treasure lies beyond your grasp."

Amy and James live in a house with their parents and their little black cat, Kiwi. One dark night, Amy cannot sleep and she looks out of the window into the garden to see Kiwi transfixed by the moon, which has taken on a weird, glowing shape like a cat's claw. Waking her brother, Amy suggests they follow Kiwi that night to see where she goes... whether it involves a hunt for mice or something else. Little do they know that, with a flick of her tail, Kiwi is going to lead them on the adventure of their lives to a land they never knew existed in their wildest dreams. In the blue-lit world of Cat City, they gain an understanding of what it's really like to be a cat. There they get to help Inspector Furrball solve the mystery of the missing catizens and find out what happened to Madame Purrfect.
This book is the first in a series of adventures.

Review by Rebecca Johnson, Amazon - 5 stars
Vickie has a wonderful imagination and has created a magical world where cats run their own world. I found to be an exciting read and can recommend it to you.

Review by wistfulskimmie, Amazon / Smashwords - 5 stars
Although this was essentially a children’s book, I found myself thoroughly enjoying it. Who hasn’t wondered where their cat goes all night?

Review by Gema Newby, Smashwords - 5 stars
I love this story. As a Primary school teacher, I would definitly definitly read it to my class.

Review by Grady Harp, Amazon - 5 stars
All of the ingredients for involving youngsters in the love of reading are here. A great start in what appears to be a promised series of adventures for those who love books - human beings of all ages!

Guetnachtgschichtli us Auschtralie zum Vorläse. Werum tasmanischi Tierli? Mir wohned uf ere chline Farm mit Geisse, em Nochber sine Chüe, und vielne iheimische Tierli—wie zum Bischpel hützutags Possum; früener hämmer au no Wallabies, Wombat, Echidna, Tüfel, Quoll und anderi i öisem Garte gha; hüt gid ’s no verwildereti Chatze wo usgsetzt worde sind, und Vögel. Vili Tierli sind vo öisem Garte scho verschwunde wil si hald de Waldwirtschaft und de grosse Landwirschaftsbetrieb in Tasmanie im Weg sind; Mer schüsst s’ und vergiftet s’; mer holzed de iheimisch Wald ab—und dodemit verlüred s’ ihre Läbesrum und sind sowiso em Undergang gweiht. Ich bi nöd sicher öb das ‘Fortschritt’ esch; ich bi eigentlich devo öberzügt dass es blindi Vernichtig esch. Noldi Mister Capricorn setzt vile vo dene einzigartige Tierli es Dänkmol, verchleided in ere schpannende Gschicht för die ganz Chline.

Zachary is the personal zombie of Gert the Wicked Witch. She sent him to fetch newts from the forest. Along the way, he finds a lost boy named Tobias who had been following an emo bunny in the hopes of holding it and making it feel better. When the boy asks nicely for help getting to his home in the village, Zachary agrees.
Along the way, they run into a cranky stag and a pretty woman who dreams of meeting a prince. A party in the cemetery isn’t the proper place to take a boy, but zombies aren’t always proper and one of the worst things about villagers is that they always seem to have a supply of pitchforks and torches.
Will the boy make it home? Will Zachary give in to the craving for brainsss?
Caution: This story is not for normal children. If you have any intention of raising a well adjusted child, this is not the right tale for you.

Spirit Lights is a coming-of-age MG/YA novel, sequel to The Haunted Igloo.

Returning to the Arctic after a two-year absence, twelve-year-old Jean-Paul has overcome his old fear of the dark, but discovers that his best Inuit friend, Chinook, is afraid of "spirit lights."

One dark polar night, after searching by dogsled for a crashed plane, Jean-Paul hears sounds from the direction of an aurora. His friends Chinook and the girl Kunee say the spirits in the lights are speaking, warning of danger, but Jean-Paul *knows* auroras can't talk!

Or can they?

Fans of Gary Paulsen, Scott O'Dell, and Jack London will enjoy this book. (ages 12 & up)


About the Author

From Bonnie Turner's early interest in huskies, dogsleds, and the Inuit culture came her first book for children, The Haunted Igloo. (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

After that book was published, Turner visited classrooms with a life-size Inuit doll and lectured students on the importance of reading and writing ... and passed out *polar bear* hugs along with her autograph. Spirit Lights is the long-awaited sequel to The Haunted Igloo.

Bonnie Turner lives in Wisconsin.

An Internet legend, source unknown, is here retold. It tells a story of how baby angels are sent to Earth. On the day of their earthly birth, God speaks to them. Usually, baby angels are excited and full of joy. But this legend is about a baby angel who is not excited. She is not full of joy. Earth is a big place. Who will take care of her?

A young Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle is brought to Evergreen with a bullet wound. While the hunt for the perpetrator is on, Geoffrey and Becky travel to New Zealand for a special ceremony. After returning home to Tasmania, Geoffrey comes face to face with the shooter. ~~ Ships from Melbourne for Australian orders.

The Jewel Collar is the story of a Champion Maltese dog, Aristotle. Aristotle has many friends in the beach house garden, including the squirrels, doves, possums, ducks and sparrows. His Mommy comes home one day shortly before Christmas and tells him that they will be moving away from the beach house so she can be closer to the Courthouse and train station. Ari is very sad at the thought of leaving his garden friends at the beach. His Mommy is worried about him at the new home so she gives him one of his Christmas gifts early -- a Jewel Collar. Ari decides that if he shares his jewels with the garden friends he will make new friends. He makes many new friends and they decide to call themselves the Garden Friends Club. On Christmas morning they decorate a Christmas tree in the garden, placing the jewels Ari had given them on the tree. They promise to share the jewels with new visitors to the garden so they won't feel lonely and to place the jewels on the Christmas tree each and every year. The lesson is that a child moving to a new home can make new friends by sharing and friendship. The Jewel Collar children's picture book is suitable for children ages 4-8 for reading and younger children will enjoy the 67 brilliant color pictures while the story is being read to them. It is the first book in the Garden Friends Club Series, followed by Hannah the Hummingbird, the second book, with additional books to follow.

This is a book to be read to young children. It's a good bedtime story. Much of the story's purpose is to help toddlers not be afraid of monsters or of the dark. It is also a humorous story with entertaining relationships between the two children in the book (an older sister and a younger brother) and between the children and the monster family. All the members of the monster family are both afraid of the dark and terrified of children. This is also a useful story for elementary age readers,

Two dads, five siblings, and goggles!

Grim Doyle has always known his life was not exactly "normal", and things get even more curious when he discovers a set of stones that sweep him and his family to the fantasy, steampunk world of Verne - a place they had escaped from years ago. Now that they've returned, Grim and his siblings hide from the evil Lord Victor and his minions. And while learning about Jinns, Mystics, and the power of absinth they try to discover who is trying to kill them with the deadly Scourge.

The Boy's treehouse has seven basements and a crow's nest with a telescope, and a spiral slide that goes from the top of the tree to the bottom.

Little Witch's house is tall and thin and painted pink and purple, and it sits on top of a giant mushroom that smells like used teabags.

The Boy and Little Witch meet almost every day to trade lunches and talk and go wandering, to So Long Beach or Two Big Rocks, or to visit Cliff Face or Mr River. Sometimes they annoy each other or have disagreements, or Little Witch argues at The Boy while he sits and smiles, but they're best friends, and nothing can change that.

But there's something wrong happening deep in the heart of Oubliette Island, and even the outskirts have been touched. Though it means abandoning comfort and journeying through lands unknown (or perhaps just forgotten), The Boy and Little Witch set out to retrieve what was taken from them - and to find that which is most precious.

Victoria loves her home and family, but boy does she hate the noises that invade her daily life. Her imagination transforms the blender into a growling bear, the vacuum cleaner into a lion and the lawnmower into a spaceship filled with monsters. With the help of a CD player, she decides that maybe a nasty noise like the blender is just music that doesn't know how to sing. This illustrated picture book is exclusively available in ebook format. Bonus material - includes an interview with the author and sample story pages, flag facts and discussion questions from the patriotic children's picture book The Flag Keeper.

The beginning of the Hildegarde series for young readers. When her parents must take a long trip, 15-year-old Hildegardis Graham, a blase young lady of New York City, is sent -- to her dismay -- to stay on a farm. At first haughty, she quickly turns herself around and comes to love the place and its people. A great coming of age story, a mystery, and adventure.

There is a dragon in the woods near the village of Ravenswing. She is sleek and green and fire-breathing, and she's already eaten one of the village's geese. But Skavi and his little sister Triss know the dragon has an egg, and they don't want to see her die. So they come up with a plan to save the dragon and her egg--but will they get to them before the hunters do?

"Fox Point Dragon" is a fantasy short story for children and the young at heart, or for anyone who has ever dreamed of meeting a dragon in the forest.

A humorous, animal detective story for 7-12 year-olds.

"When Mr Woodland Mouse mysteriously disappears, Constable Mole is quick to enlist the help of Leon Chameleon, Private Investigator, whose expertise enabled the Pigeon Valley Police to solve the case of the missing canary eggs.
After organising a search, Leon realises that there is only one creature in the valley who can spring the captured mouse from his prison. But just when he thinks Mr Woodland Mouse is safely on his way home, the plan goes horribly wrong..."

All the animal details of food, habits, and lifestyle are true to nature (apart from Constable Mole’s sunglasses!) and the animals solve the crimes using their own natural abilities. Children will absorb much knowledge of the small creatures of Africa without being aware of it.

A section of interesting facts has been added to this second detective story in the Leon Chameleon PI series. It provides valuable and little-known information on chameleons, moles and other creatures featured in the story.

The Sugar Plum Fairies are tired of dancing for nothing. To make matters worse, the North Pole is freezing, they have to wear skimpy outfits and their poor little legs get worn out quickly. When the Elvin Labor Union was formed, the poor little fairies were left out of any sort of fair bargaining agreement.

The time has come for all of that to change.

Everyone knows Christmas Eve is the best time to attack the North Pole. Santa’s getting ready to deliver toys, the elves are partying and the reindeer have finished playing their reindeer games. Can the legendary North Pole withstand yet another attack? Will Christmas come to a screeching halt?

Join three stealthy fairies: Sydae, Araedae and Zannae, as they try to make life easier for all Sugar Plum Fairies. Will they be able to succeed in their mission? What’s happened to Santa? Will the elves stop the fairies from their task? And what secret is Mrs. Claus hiding from the world?

This is a short story approximately 4600 words long, which translates to about 25-30 printed pages.

Ben and Samantha's adventure brings the children face-to-face with one of Tasmania's unique and rare inhabitants, the spotted-tailed quoll, an endangered, pretty animal that faces an uncertain future due to the threat of a predator not native to the country, the fox. ~~ Ships from Melbourne for Australian orders.

A classic about an adventure under the sea, before submarines were invented. This is great action and adventure reading by youngsters and adults as well.

A fantasy fable about dealing with grief: From the author: My birth mother died of cancer when I was eleven. I was in my forties before I was able to completely grieve that experience. I wrote this story in the hopes of helping someone else that might be in a similar situation. As I began sharing an early rough draft with friends, it was photocopied and circulated through the hospice community.

This is a "canine-centric" children's story, a tale in which the dog's point of view is the correct one by the conclusion of the story. This is good reading for a late elementary or middle school reader because they will "get" the humor. The remarkable but stubborn canine of the title eventually gets his point across.

A classic tale for young readers by Fenn.

Emo the Bunny was a sad bunny. He preferred gloomy days, walks over a cliff and misery of any sort. One day he saw something very unusual. Normally he'd take a nap and try to forget about it, but for some reason he took an interest.

Ducks, bunnies, chickens, squirrels, geese, bears, cows, robins and The Easter Bunny all play a part in the disturbing events which show that woodland creatures aren't always as cute, fuzzy and innocent as they lead us to believe!

Caution: This story is not for normal children. If you have any intention of raising a well adjusted child, this is not the right tale for you.

This is a SHORT STORY approximately 2950 words long, which translates to about 14 printed pages.