Magical Child

Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly; and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflections in a school bathroom mirror.

Best friends Lisa and Jenny are inseparable and love nothing more than spending their days exploring and having fun together. In this delightful storybook, follow the duo as they embark on an unforgettable adventure filled with laughter, excitement, and a touch of magic. From building sandcastles on the beach to winning prizes at the arcade, and conquering the wild rides at the fairground, every moment is packed with fun.

This story is the first in the Magical Murphy Farm series. The Murphy Family Farm is an enchanted farm that owes much of its success to an agreement made between the Murphys and the Fairy Folk over a century ago in Ireland. With over a hundred acres of farm land, the fairies and enchanted creatures work together to help the Murphy Family keep the farm prosperous enough to be generous to the community. The fairy folk call the Murphy Farm Lismore Baile, their words for "Bountiful Home."

Once upon a time, plucked chickens began appearing in every kitchen. Where do these rogue chickens come from, and how did they get a peculiar attitude? No one will know until the sheriff cracks the case.

Something has gone horribly wrong in the magical town of Darlinia. The teacher didn’t come back from lunch break. The kids investigate and discover that all of the adults in town are gone! Did it have something to do with the strange noises? The kids don’t think it has anything to do with the huge secrets they’ve been keeping, but could it? See how the children mature when every adult vanishes. You’ll laugh and smile when you see how the determination of a young person helps the entire town learn the most important thing about life.

Do you know a fairy with a fever? Or a sasquatch with a stomach ache? Giada Bellantuono is the one to call. She’s no ordinary veterinarian. She has the power to heal all kinds of fantastic creatures! Now she and Sinistro, her black cat familiar, have left their home in New Jersey to train with magical veterinarians around the world. And a conference in Argentina has come just in time. A company called C&C Medicinals is kidnapping and hurting magical animals to make medicine for humans!

May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid's Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the Atlantic stretches as far as the eye can see. This remote settlement, without electricity or even a harbor, has scarcely altered since its namesake saint set up a convent of stone huts centuries ago. Those who live there, including sisters Rose and Emer, are hardy and resourceful, dependent on the sea and each other for survival.

In this short story, Benjay’s excitement for Halloween keeps hitting roadblocks. Will he go trick-or-treating or be stuck at home handing out candy? A delightful middle-grade short story that captures the magic and excitement of every child's favorite spooky holiday. An entertaining tale blending humor, adventure, and valuable life lessons about resilience and family bonds.

Looking for a calming and delightful bedtime story for kids to get the little ones to sleep? Worries about monsters in the dark? Squabbles at bedtime? Freya and Pixie’s bedtime stories are ideal, especially if you have young children who are siblings, munchkins who are afraid of the dark or struggling with any lingering worries about monsters under the bed.

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 niece, who wants nothing to do with her. Soon after embarking, Evelyn overhears a man who aims to hunt the park’s creatures for sport, and Hattie meets Jacob Threadborne, an apprentice magician sent by a foreign government on a top-secret mission.

Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the student body chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him - something primal - that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around.

No matter how much Olive longs for a pet rabbit, it's never going to happen. Not when she lives in an Australian country town where most people think they're a pest. So imagine Olive's shock when she unexpectedly finds not one, but one hundred and one rabbits. And one of them can talk! How Olive will ever be able to hide and protect the rabbits is going to be her greatest challenge, and all while preparing for the Year 5 play. At least she has her costume ready, although the old top hat she found in the local op-shop seems very odd.

Randy Rainbow is uniquely himself. He loves painting his nails and listening to old Broadway albums. But when some kids at school tease Randy for being who he is, he goes to his beloved granny for a solution. And she has just the thing—a pair of sparkly pink glasses. The moment Randy puts the glasses on, the drab world around him turns Technicolor in a blink! The town swimming pool? It's full of mermaids, including a mer-Randy!

Sam has cheated death, but the world he returns to is mutated, and the holograms and robots are programmed to watch his every move. He is hounded by his past ghosts and surrounded by suspicious people bent on keeping him imprisoned.

Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember—first because of her parents’ constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to “give her a better life” in the United States, Maria is shipped to a host family across the world.

>In this audiobook, parenting expert Sue Atkins helps you to create the best sort of life that you will really love, get excited by, and truly enjoy. An incredibly positive, well lived life, full of wonderful opportunities and great memories. A fantastic life that you can create easily and effortlessly just through relaxing regularly, listening to this toolkit often, and letting your imagination transform your life into enormous opportunities, great experiences, and magical moments - the life you truly deserve and can personally choose.

L. Frank Baum is the famed author of the Wizard of Oz series. In this tale, we meet a fairy named Popopo who is the guardian of all the birds. When he learns that stuffed birds are being used as fashion accessories on the hats of ladies, he decides to put a stop to it.

Are you looking for a new book? If you are addicted to gods and demons, this series is perfect for you! In these novels, you will discover the beauty of being a spiritual God and how difficult it can be human. Deciding to have an experience away from home is just the beginning. We are attending the deepening of a novel and necessary literary field for today's society: "The fusion of the so-called self-help book integrated into a romance fiction novel." Even more impressive: A story based on real events.

Join Mocha, the lovable French Bulldog, and her adventurous friends—Logan, Sloane, and Reagan—as they stumble upon a mysterious hourglass buried in their backyard! When they discover this magical artifact, their lives are changed forever. With a touch of the hourglass, the kids and Mocha are whisked away on thrilling time-traveling adventures. From exploring medieval castles and sailing with pirates to running alongside dinosaurs in a vibrant jungle, each journey is filled with excitement, laughter, and unforgettable experiences.

Thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza has a huge crush on his classmate, Sierra, but he’s never going to win her affections if he stays a C student and keeps embarrassing himself on the basketball court. And it doesn’t help that his best friend, Antonio, likes to tease him about it all a little too much. But when Jordan dives into the waters of a dangerous irrigation canal to save a drowning puppy, he’s suddenly got even more on his mind than kissing Sierra and making the starting team.