Children's Modern and Contemporary Fiction Books

Shots, injections, needles, and vaccines-whatever their purpose, they all hurt. More than half of children in the 6-17 year-old range report a strong fear of needles. Nearly 25% of adults do as well. This book is for those families who cringe at the...

Sometimes we don't like it when it rains. All sorts of things come with rain, like thunder and lightning; and that can be very scary. You definitely can't go swimming when there is thunder and lightening, but you can still swim when it's just plain old...

Imaginative four-year-old Stevie is fond of making up stories, so he finds it hard to convince people that someone scary is following him. When his mother realizes who the person trailing Stevie is, she explains how light creates shadows, and Stevie is...

Lai-Lai and her best friend Chub-Chub are each about to lose their first tooth! Lai-Lai’s brothers and sister teach her how to make her loose tooth fall out and tell her about the magical tooth fairy. When Lai-Lai and Chub-Chub await the tooth...

She's a monster. He's a mortal. Killing each other should be easy...right?When Medusa and Tiresias rise from the Underworld as twenty-first-century teens and meet through Persephone and Hades' new dating app, it seems like a second chance...

A rare sighting of a Waffle boy sends young Pancake Jake on a quest in Breakfast Land: he wants to make friends with the Waffles who have long been the enemies of the Pancakes. With courage and kindness, Jake discovers a...

The four books in the “Green Meadow Collection” are a continuation of Thornton W. Burgess’s long running — and much beloved — series of children’s nature books about the Green Meadow, the Green Forest, and the Smiling Pool. Young readers, and listeners,