Tag Archives: Fiction

Church Mice at Christmas (Church Mice Series)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Graham Oakley
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.

Product Description
This is a picture book for young children and is one of a series about the church mice.

The Bells of Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper

Product Description
Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal

Blue Bug’s Christmas (Blue Bug Book)

Author: Virginia Poulet
Publisher: Children’s Press(CT)

Product Description
Blue Bug and his friends choose and decorate a tree for Christmas.

Witch’s Christmas

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Norman Bridwell
Publisher: Scholastic

Product Description
A good witch helps Santa deliver his Christmas goodies after he is entangled with a spaceship.

Christmas Eve On Sesame Street

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Sesame Street
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
On Christmas Eve the Sesame Street friends exchange gifts, go skating, worry about Santa, and write their wish list.

Bear’s Christmas Surprise (Picture Yearling Book)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Winthrop
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
It’s one week before Christmas! When Nora leaves Bear home with Mrs. Duck so that she can do some last-minute shopping, he promises not to hunt for presents. Bear tries to be good, but he happens upon his gifts during a game of hide-and-seek. All Bear wants is [...]

Christmas Cookies (Wee Pudgy Board Book)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Product Description
The mice are up to their whiskers in flour, sugar, and sprinkles as they prepare their cookies for Christmas, in a rhyming holiday board book. For children under three.

A Christmas Present For Me!

Author: Lily Karr
Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Product Description
A gift that reads “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS”! How could anyone wait to tear it open? But when they do… SURPRISE! It’s a Christmas story that comes already wrapped!
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS is a playful holiday format that mimics a wrapped gift box. With glitter flocking, an embossed [...]

Baby-Sitters’ Christmas Chiller (Baby-Sitters Club Super Mystery)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Apple (Scholastic)

Kirsten’s Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls Collection)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Janet Beeler Shaw
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

Product Description
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav’s farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

Main Street: Home for Christmas

Author: Susan E. Kirby
Publisher: Bt Bound

Product Description
In 1932, with the country in the depths of the Great Depression, Suker and her family face a Christmas without presents or a tree, and Suker’s only consolation is that her older brother Razz might come home to brighten up the holiday.

Littles Have A Merry Christmas (Littles First Readers)

Author: John Peterson
Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval

Product Description
It’s almost Christmas, and all the Littles are full of good cheer…all except Uncle Nick. Uncle Nick just moved in. It was time for him to rest after thirty years of fighting mice in Trash City. Uncle Nick likes his new home, but he misses all [...]

Texas Christmas: As Celebrated Under Six Flags

Author: Elizabeth Dearing Morgan
Publisher: Eakin Press

Product Description
Describes some of the different ways that Christmas has been celebrated by various groups in Texas from the early sixteenth century to the present.

The Christmas Cup

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Patterson
Publisher: iUniverse

Product Description
Eight-year-old Ann Megan McCallie impulsively bids all of her hard-earned money for a worthless milkshake cup she sees at an auction. Her grandmother Nannie comforts her when other children tease her for buying “junk.” As Megan and Nannie secretly find the perfect use for Megan’s disappointing purchase, Megan [...]

Christmas Treasure (Saddle Club Super #7)

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Bonnie Bryant
Publisher: Skylark

Product Description
Christmas is coming and Max wants Horse Wise to get in the holiday spirit. Heannounces that they are going to have Secret Santas, but there’s a catch: Youcan’t “give” something; you have to “do” something. It sounds like fun, untilthey draw names.

Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (Dell Young Yearling)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
Seven-year-old Vicky Austin thinks the 24 days before Christmas are the best days of the whole year. Vicky is practicing for the Christmas pageant and decorating the house. She hopes her new brother or sister will be born soon so mother can be home for Christmas.

Currier & Ives Christmas: Dreams and Secrets/Snow Storm/Image of Love/Circle of Blessings (Inspirational Christmas Romance Collection)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: DiAnn Mills
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated

Product Description
The artistry of renowned lithographers Currier & Ives captures the beauty and nostalgia of simpler days and Christmases past. Yet, while a picture may be worth a thousand words, there are times when even the best illustrations leave viewers with a yearning to know more. Inspired [...]

A Newbery Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
This Christmas collection, designed to add to the pleasures of the holiday season, contains 22 stories, vignettes, and poems ranging from heart-warming to humorous, by 16 Newbery Award-winning authors. Among the featured authors are: Rachel Field, E.L. Konigsberg, Madeleine L’Engle, and Katherine Paterson.

Magic Tree House #29: Christmas in Camelot (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she’s known to create a longer, [...]

Eragon

Rating: (2897 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of [...]

Evermore: The Immortals

Rating: (299 reviews)
Author: Alyson Noël
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description

Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch.   Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a [...]

Complete Works of Jane Austen. Emma, Lady Susan, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility. ILLUSTRATED. (mobi)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: MobileReference

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy-boring, even-until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by [...]

City of Glass

Rating: (174 reviews)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

Product Description
To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that [...]

Carpe Corpus

Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet

Product Description
In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He-s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is [...]

A Christmas Tree for All (Bookland Juvenile)

Author: Tom Guadagno
Publisher: Carlton Pr

The Christmas Cup

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Ruth Patterson
Publisher: Demco Media

Product Description
Eight-year-old Megan and her grandmother turn a worthless old cup to good use by saving money in it to buy a gift for a special person at Christmas.

Adivinanzas de navidad/ Christmas riddles (Coleccion Adivina) (Spanish Edition)

Author: Alain Crozon
Publisher: S & M Books

Sleep and Dream of Happy Things (Yo Gabba Gabba!)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Product Description
Muno can’t sleep–he hates sleeping alone. So what should Muno do? Why, he should sleep and dream of happy things like the rest of the Gabba Gang. The perfect bedtime book for little ones who love Yo Gabba Gabba! Kids will love to go to sleep after reading this [...]

Beezus and Ramona

Rating: (48 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Cleary’s wonderful Henry Huggins stories. She is also far and away the most deadly. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, [...]

My Daddy and Me

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Tina Macnaughton
Publisher: Good Books

Product Description
From award-winning illustrator, Tina Macnaughton, comes this tender declaration of love from a child for his Daddy.
When Little Bear is with his Daddy, he is the fastest, tallest, happiest Little Bear in the whole world.
Warm colors and a gentle rhyming text illustrate the special bond between this [...]

The Graveyard Book

Rating: (386 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There [...]

Chosen (House of Night, Book 3)

Rating: (134 reviews)
Author: P. C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description

Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn.  Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies.  And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends.  [...]

Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel

Rating: (151 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
Is Rose’s fate to kill the person she loves most? It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since Mason’s death, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She has dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can’t concentrate in class, and has [...]

Fate (My Blood Approves series)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher:

Product Description
Fate – the second installment in the My Blood Approves series…
Alice Bonham thinks she’s finally found a balance in her life between the supernatural and real life with her brother Milo. Jack – her sorta vampire boyfriend – keeps her at arm’s length to keep her safe. As for [...]

Great Expectations

Rating: (259 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Neeland Media LLC

Product Description
“Great Expectations” is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens’s most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens’s searching reappraisal [...]

Pretty Little Liars #4: Unbelievable

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Product Description
Behind Rosewood’s grand façades, where the air smells like apples and Chanel No. 5 and infinity pools sparkle in landscaped backyards, nothing is as it seems. It was here, back in seventh grade, that five best friends shared everything—Seven jeans, MAC makeup, and their deepest, darkest secrets. [...]

Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Holly Black, author of Valiant. This [...]

Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Rating: (192 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

Product Description
The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them . . . including Dimitri.
He’d rather die than be one of [...]

Brisingr Deluxe Edition

Rating: (677 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Experience the bestselling phenomenon of Brisingr, now in a deluxe edition!
This deluxe edition includes deleted scenes, never-before-seen art by the author, and a guide to dwarf runes.
 
Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have [...]

Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Being a kid with wings–constantly on the run–has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the flock makes her fear the worst. [...]

Christmas Cricket

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Clarion Books

Product Description
In a California garden on a rainy night, Cricket feels small and worthless. He hops up some steps and finds himself in a place filled with light and warmth and a tall, sparkling tree. He begins to sing but is scared into silence by two voices, one [...]

Christmas in the Manger Board Book

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Nola Buck
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book. With a simple, lyrical text and radiant artwork, this book is perfect for the youngest child to be a part of the wonder of the Nativity.

Bear Stays Up for Christmas

Rating: (83 reviews)
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

Product Description
Bear’s friends awaken him the day before Christmas and help him to stay awake as they bake fruitcakes, fill stockings, and sing carols, then, while they sleep, he prepares his own surprise.

The Night Before Christmas Pop-up (Classic Collectible Pop-Up)

Rating: (66 reviews)
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Little Simon

Product Description
Award winner Robert Sabuda brings Clement Clarke Moore’s classic tale of The Night Before Christmas to life in this festive pop-up edition, sure to become a perennial family favorite. Amazon.com Review
The ingenious Robert Sabuda returns for yet another inspired pop-up book, a follow-up to The 12 [...]

A Humpback Whale Tale (Go, Diego, Go!)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon

Product Description
Oh, no! A baby humpback whale is stuck on a rocky island. Join Diego as he twists and turns in this adventure through the rainforest and ocean! After reading the story, children can learn exciting facts about humpback whales!

Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy (Junie B. Jones, No. 11)

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Junie B. Jones knows what she wants to be when she grows up — a beauty
shop guy! All she needs is a little practice. Okay, a lot of practice. And a
few volunteers. Like her bunny slippers. And her dog. And maybe even…herself?

The Black Stallion Returns

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continue as Alec discovers that two men are after the Black. One claims to be the Black’s rightful owner and one is trying to kill the beautiful steed. An Arab chieftain proves his [...]

The Lord of the Rings

Rating: (1504 reviews)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written. No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing [...]

Raising Dragons (Dragons in Our Midst, Book 1)

Rating: (92 reviews)
Author: Bryan Davis
Publisher: Living Ink Books

Product Description
Modern fantasy novel that inspires young people to pursue faith, courage, and love, to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths no matter how difficult the circumstances.