Children's Modern and Contemporary Fiction Books

Una historia inspiradora de levantarnos cuando la vida nos tumba.Pedrito tiene dificultades en expresar sus sentimientos y no sabe cómo lidiar con los altibajos de la vida. ¡Los fracasos lo frustran! Cuando el abuelo se pasa ese verano con la familia,...

An encouraging story about asking for help and working together.Bats, ghosts, and spooky spiderwebs! Halloween is almost here and Lil Peter is determined to build a haunted house maze to attract the neighbor kids. He figures, why walk for miles when the...

Una historia que te da la fuerza de no redirte ante los momentos difíciles de la vida.A Pedrito no le gusta correr. De hecho, a Pedrito no le gusta participar en muchas actividades así que se rinde ante ellas, una tras otra. Cuando se ve forzado a correr...

An empowering story about not giving up when life gets tough.Lil Peter doesn't like to run. In fact, Lil Peter doesn't like to do a lot of things so he quits one activity after another. When he is forced to run at soccer practice, he insists on quitting...

When a young wizard named Brielle comes across a mermaid tangled in a fishing net, she'll have to use all of her smarts, and maybe a little magic, to help free the mermaid and get her back to her home in the sea.Brielle and the Tangled Mermaid is the...

If you love stories with helpful characters and positive messages, you'll love Fenix and the Firework Fliers, a charming story of friendship and courage.Join Fenix, a little firefly on big mission to help Bolt, a Firework Flier who ate too much nectar...

Aspen & Sycamore Saps live on Maple Street with Mama and Mee. The family enjoys the blackberry bushes growing in the yard until the plants spread out of control. The kids want to get some animals to help, but first they'll need to convince Mama and...

The Marshmallows are enjoying the chocolate and icing that flows in their town until the Cupcakes get jealous and try to steal their land. A war breaks out, but who will win? Will the Marshmallows be forced to give up their land? Or will the...

The year was 1960. My then 13-year-old brother Manuel Barros, Jr. was known throughout the community as the boy who could fix any bicycle.One day Manny decided to put together some spare parts, and thus the neighborhood bicycle Rad-Da-Ca Chad-Da-Ca was...

This is a book about twins. It explains that we like different things such as subjects in school, sports, colors, and activities. As twins, we have things in common that we both like too. Just because we are brothers and twins, does not...

How did Pig treat Turtle, his best friend? And how did Turtle in turn treat his equally best friend, the Pig? What did Pig end up doing? These questions and more are answered in this classic fable based on folk tales the author grew up hearing in Eastern...

¡Sigue Avanzando, Henry! es un libro para niños que es excelente para leer en voz alta, basado en la historia real de Henry Luvert, uno de los primeros afroamericanos en servir como bombero en 1981 en la pequeña ciudad universitaria de Eugene, Oregón...

Beginner and early readers will learn how to identify delicious pieces of cake in this introductory Marshmallow River Friends picture book series. Children will learn about the various tasty treats they may have seen their own fathers or family members...

When Loretta dropped her armload of firewood on the hearth, a mysterious tube fell from between the logs. It was a leafcutter bee nest. Loretta took it back out to the woodpile and watched as holes appeared. But where were the bees? She found more...

<h4>Where do the Ladybugs go in Winter?</h4><p>Loretta is a mischievous girl who lives in a cabin high up in the Colorado mountains. She loves her garden and the ladybugs that protect it.&nbsp;They tickle her arms in the summer...

A traveling wizard. New apprentices. A haunted castle.Master Wizard Zarlaam spends his summers searching for those with hidden magic then teaches them how to use their gift. Including his strict code of conduct.Bershome Paxtare is being groomed to...

Finding Q : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding Q is fun and adventure and many wonderful Q - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding P : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding P is fun and adventure and many wonderful P - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding N : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding N is fun and adventure and many wonderful N - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding I : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding I is fun and adventure and many wonderful I - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding M : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding M is fun and adventure and many wonderful M - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding L : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding L is fun and adventure and many wonderful L - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding J : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding J is fun and adventure and many wonderful J - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding H : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding H is fun and adventure and many wonderful H - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding G : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding G is fun and adventure and many wonderful G - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding C : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding C is fun and adventure and many wonderful C - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Gastão is an adventurous young boy from Portugal who enjoys exploring new cultures. He visits South Korea with his parents on his latest journey, The Adventures of Gastão in South Korea, the third book in The Adventures of Gastão series. When...

Little Rocket and his mother live in the trunk of a black walnut tree in the backyard of a little cottage, where Little Rocket eagerly awaits the fall harvest of black walnuts. Another one of his favorite treats is only twelve feet away from the black...

What is matzah and why is it important during Passover? Learn about how matzah is made and why it is a special symbol of freedom for Jewish families everywhere. Included: Recipes, educational materials for teachers and families. Children and parents will...

Heartache, betrayal, and abuse: These are Mia's lifelong companions, inflicted upon her by parents who wish she'd never been born. The night she was kicked out of the house, Mia would have frozen to death-if not literally, then emotionally-were it not...

Finding O : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding O is fun and adventure and many wonderful O - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding K : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding K is fun and adventure and many wonderful K - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

Finding F : The Great Alphabet Hunt is an ABC book like no other! Finding F is fun and adventure and many wonderful F - words for the young reader to be read to and eventually they too can read the words made by the letters of the AlphAbet!Come and join...

This book is about a little girl named Grace who desperately misses being with her dad and spending time with him, due to situations beyond her control. So, after talking and opening up to her mother, Grace begins to express her feelings and find some...

Uh oh! Siona's family needs her help!Siona is worried about her mum going back to work at her hair salon while a dangerous virus is on the loose, making so many people sick! Siona decides to do something to help her mum cut hair and stay safe at the same...

"Atlantis calling; can you hear us?"When holographic merpeople show up while you're eating your breakfast, you know it's not going to be a normal day. They want to teach you a few things about water. It's difficult for merpeople to understand how many...

Chasing Butterflies in Sunlight" describes the joys and innocence of childhood experienced by Ronke, growing up in a beautiful, culturally and racially diverse world on a University campus in Nigeria. A Nigerian-American mother, Ronke, living in...

Meet Mamaw and Pops with their little playful puppy, Wally. See what antics Wally gets into on a daily basis, exhausting his owners. He runs, he hides, he can be quite naughty at times. But he's loved from the tip of his snout to the tip of his tail...

(Bilingual English-Turkish edition) Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria, Egypt. Adopted by a local...

Includes audio reading in Mandarin. Let's go on a hike is a family hiking adventure that features a biracial family. Learn Chinese and appreciate the beauty of nature with this adorable book! The interior has large Traditional Chinese characters with...

A Mexican tale on the importance of perseverance, friendship, and kindness. Join a talented guitar-playing boy, Gael, as he searches the Mexican forest, Los Dinamos, for firewood and becomes the target of a bully. This tale is about handling bullying,...

Join the hilariously charming adventures of Petunia Cupcake Fluffybottom-a magical little unicorn making her way in the big human world!*Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal Winner!A Unicorn? In the Holiday Play?!Petunia and her fabulous unicorn aunt have just...

Levi Rocco only wants to protect his mom from his abusive father. His father's last visit left Levi and his mom driving to the Med First Center, where Levi decided to check out the Kick City karate studio across the street. Looking in on class, he ends...

Frances wants to teach the popular girls a lesson: Anyone can be prom queen. It's risky. It probably won't work, and she'll need the help of her clever best friends and a shy girl with autism hiding a secret. But when their plan works too well,...

Join Henry, a boy from the swamps of Louisiana, as he learns an important lesson about kindness with his swamp animal friends.Bullfrog loves to sing with his friends down at the pond. But everything changes when he's captured by a boy, Henry, who wants...

"Giving is as easy as blowing a kiss!" - Giving Grace.Giving Is Easy (book 2 in the 4-book series) is a beautifully illustrated picture rhyming book that teaches kids how to get rich God's way by revealing Christian values and important life lessons...

(Bilingual English-Turkish edition) When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the people terrified of something that - just because they have not seen it before - they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. Using his own knowledge and...