Selah is a dragon. Or at least, she feels like one. And she finally figured out how to spread her wings and soar. Armed with her sensory tools, her notebooks and poems, and her newfound knowledge about her autism, Selah is heading to writing camp for the summer. She’s excited to work on her writing, […]

Kaia Santos and her family live near the beach in California, where the fun of moviemaking surrounds them. Kaia loves playing with makeup and creating special effects, turning her friends into merfolk and other magical creatures. This summer, Kaia and her friends are part of a creative arts camp, where they’re working on a short […]

Hattie Swift is a maid-in-training at Majestica, a resort and nature preserve where visitors come face to face with rare magical flora and fauna. She’s thrilled to be invited along on the park’s famous wilderness train excursion for the first time, but there’s a catch: she has to accompany Evelyn Ridgewell, the hotel owner’s haughty […]

Ruby Emmerson has always felt like the “dumb” twin. Struggling with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, she feels out of place at her competitive charter school, especially as her twin brother Bryce excels both academically and socially. When she fails a math test despite getting extra help, she fears she’ll flunk out of Benton Academy and […]

SPOILERS AHEAD! Please read “Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo” before reading this book review.   Meticulous Jones knows the power of her name. Descended from the great Joneses, including the cofounder of New London, Majestic Jones, Metty also inherited the abilities that give them power over life and death. When she is recruited to […]

WARNING: This story contains excessive talk of murder, ruthless leaders, injustice, society ranks, war, and terrorism. Reader discretion is advised.   On her tenth birthday, Meticulous Jones, known to her friends as Metty, receives her fate, as all children do, in the form of a magical tattoo on her hand. She hopes that her ink […]

Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative, Ruthie Reynard, a famous aviator, they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing-walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind […]

Owen Godfrey is spending his summer in Paris studying science fiction writer Jules Verne, the brilliant mind behind Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. When Owen and his new friends find what appears to be a dusty copy of Verne’s collected works in an old bookshop, they’re intrigued by the hidden codes […]

Rosa Mandolini knows in her heart that her family are the greatest painters of magical illuminations in the city. But the eccentric Studio Mandolini has fallen on hard times, and the future is no longer certain. While trying to help her family, Rosa discovers a strange magical box protected by a painted crow. But when […]

What if you lived in a world without books? After a devastating Blight killed off all the trees, paper is worth more than just about anything. Juni’s parents died when she was young, so now it’s just her and Grandpa Edgar. When she’s not in school, Juni and her friends Doler and Quaze turn to […]