Children's Modern and Contemporary Fiction Books

Ninallia is young, young and desperate. She decides to sell the only thing she owns to save her family: her body.Believing family stories that she descends from royal blood, she agrees to become a surrogate for an infertile couple. The lucrative...

Have you or someone love ever had to cope with anger? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of a friend who feels of angry because they did not get a cookie. Ben is angry when he sees Cal eating the last cookie on the plate while all his...

A young deer named Davey is feeling very sad. He no longer enjoys the things he used to, is sleeping more than usual, and isn’t very hungry.When he shares his feelings with his mother, she decides to take Davey to the family doctor for a check-up...

Are you looking for fun and wholesome books for your children? Are you looking for ways to keep children engaged and excited while learning valuable life lessons? Come along with Eddie as he explores some of his favorite places and things in...

Are you looking for fun and wholesome books for your children? Are you looking for ways to keep children engaged and excited about learning? Come along with Patti as she explores some of her favorite words that begin with the letter P!Readers...

"In the Heart of a Mustang is one of the finest books ever written for teens and preteens." Literary ClassicsIn the Heart of a Mustang has been awarded the Gold Medal for Young Adult Fiction from the Literary Classics Book...

The Number Story 1: Small Book One English-Assamese          2016 Bronze Winner                                        ...

Every day, Tiffany hears that her smile is so bright it lights up the room. But on the morning of her ballet recital, something goes very wrong: Tiffany's two front teeth fall out. Tiffany doesn't want anyone to laugh at her new crazy smile or...

Tyrell loves his neighborhood -- the park with the swingset, the library with the puppet shows, the restaurant with the star-shaped spaghetti. But the neighborhood has been changing a lot lately, and one day Tyrell comes home to learn that his building...

Where can you go to grill half-smokes, captain pirate ships, shoot hoops, feed ducks, and watch the sun set magnificently over the river? Welcome to historic Anacostia Park, in Southeast Washington, D.C. Join us on an adventure through this local...

The Apple King has the job of maintaining order in the Real Fruit Kingdom. If things are going wrong, his job is to make it right! The Real Fruit Kingdom battles it out against the covert plans of the Artificial Fruit Kingdom in this book. The Apple...

Children can speak, and they are learning how to speak better every day by listening to you. I learned a lot of lessons from watching my son, Nathan. The best one is that you can teach them their ABCs using logical sentences, ideas, images, and...

Learn math in a fun and meaningful way with Ayden! Math can be so much fun. When you see how numbers impact your world and how counting and adding can help you, math doesn't seem so bad. Read this book and see how I made math fun for numbers 1 through...

Working to help people during their hardest times is Moni Logan's job. She enjoys being a chaplain and has always believed in the value of her work. But, when she is diagnosed with breast cancer, she understands personally how much it means to have a...

 The Number Story 1: Small Book One English-Zulu          2016 Bronze Winner                                      ...

QUEST FOR THE HINAKIRIN - Issue 1: The Vice menNew sci-fi comic series displaying the power of light over darkness. "The dominion of Dawn will be tested, my apprentice. Our glorious light will cease, plunging us into deep darkness. Only the...

When orders came to evacuate due to rising floodwaters, Bea Pearl followed her brother down to the river. Only she returned. But she knows he isn't dead. Even if her parents don't agree. Even if the entire town doesn't believe...

The Carrot King gets surprise visitors who remind him of a war he was trying to avoid. For a long time, there have been rumblings of problems. Broc and Cali snuck into the annual cookoff and brought the battle home to Carrot King. Their attempt was to...

It was going so well until Great Aunt Agatha up and died…At all of sixteen, Lisbeth Pennyroyal is the only educated member of her family, her mind set on being more than a dress- and corset-maker like her sister Rachel. She has no intention...

Teach little readers to share this Halloween with this adorable rhyming story!Real monsters love Halloween, but did you know they've never had candy? Follow trick-or-treater Lorraine as she unexpectedly meets a playful bunch of ghouls asking her to...

Tim the Tiger is growing up fast.  He is ready to start school but has questions to ask.  Journey with Tim as he seeks the answers to questions like….”Will it be fun?”  “Where do I...

Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones unseen until it's too late. Or, in the case of the Pleasant Valley Treatment Center residents, almost too late.After a suicide attempt makes Tobias the newest resident, he's faced with the prospect of healing...

The origins of the remarkable Doctor Dolittle are revealed in this beautiful 32-page picture book!With 26 new, full-color illustrations of the quirky Doctor and his animal pals,...this classic story with a new magical twist is sure to be a family...

Wayne Schooley, a young soldier returning from France after the end of the great war is stricken with the dreaded Spanish flu (1918 influenza pandemic.) Fighting his way back from death's door, he returns home to find his parents are dead,...

Little Alice Mongoose has a loving home and doting parents in India, but she is eager to have a grown-up job and make her mark on the world. She travels to the Big Island of Hawaii, where mongoose are very much in demand. On the voyage over, as she is...

It's Alice Mongoose's first Christmas in Hawaii. She misses her family and is resigned to spending the holiday alone.Alistair Rat would love to spend Christmas with his best friend Alice, but he's afraid that Alice has more exciting things to do than...

 She's lived 200 lifetimes. And never turned 17.Kali Brewster isn't like other teenage girls. She can't be because her qi, her immortal soul, is 3623 years old. It's what makes her a wanshiqi, part of an immortal race who can reincarnate into any...

Anthony is a very smart and creative six year old who seems to be having a difficult time at home and at school due to his behavior problems related to having Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder. Then his parents decide it is time for Anthony to...

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat love to eat. And they love to cook together. Naturally, they decide to open a restaurant. How much fun it will be! But on opening night, Alice and Alistair find that some customers are impossible to please, others are...

Rainy afternoons aren’t much fun for two lively little girls who love to play outside. But a hands-on kitchen activity with their visiting Pop might just save the day from being a washout!With over a thousand miles separating them from their own...

Maury the Miserable Vampire lived in a cold, dark castle and he liked it that way. He never laughed, he never smiled, and he never went outside. When his only friend, Barry the Bat, suddenly disappears, Maury must summon the courage to set out into the...

Lil Bee wants you to know her story. She’s a hardworking little bee who lives with her mom and thousands of sisters and a few brothers too. Life isn’t easy being Lil Bee. She doesn’t know what the future holds for her and her family...

Everyone has something SPECIAL inside them just waiting to be discovered... When Judy receives a birthday card telling her how special she is, she begins to wonder what that SPECIAL thing might be.

Everyone has something SPECIAL inside them just waiting to be discovered...When Judy receives a birthday card telling her how special she is, she begins to wonder what that SPECIAL thing might be. 

Being a grandparent is an amazing job. Having a grandchild that has some challenges can be hard. Herbie was challenged with stuttering, not quite an unfamiliar challenge to his grandmother. She too was challenged with stuttering as a young child...

Pip is just like all the other possums, except for one thing: his tail won’t curl! This means he can’t hang from a tree branch, which is how his whole family sleeps. He hates sleeping by himself on the ground…until one morning he...

A devastating accident. An artificially intelligent prosthetic that makes her sleepwalk... A series of murders.Lena hates her parents' tech company. The world worships each cutting-edge CyberCorp release, but Lena has her doubts. Machines that think for...

Honeysuckle Holiday centers on the life of twelve-year-old protagonist, Lucy. It takes place in the south, in the late 1960s. Lucy struggles internally to come to terms with her parents' sudden and mysterious divorce. She finds herself thrust-almost...

It’s Tyler’s first day of school, and he’s excited. There’s so much to look forward to! He has a great day up until lunchtime, when a mean trout fish demands Tyler’s lunch. That night, Tyler’s mother explains bulling...

This is the third book in the 'Mikey and Me' reading series with extra large print for little eyes that need it. With an emphasis on family and love, Penelope Dyan uses her poetry and kid sized book and artwork to help children learn the words in the...

It’s a smashing good time at the X-ville Christmas Eve Masher—the only monster truck show in the snow. After pancaking the last car, the X-tails are on their way home when they spot something amazing. Sitting on the side of the road, looking...

YOU GOT THIS THING is a creative self-care journal to inspire young people living with any "Thing" (any ailment, disability, disease, disorder, illness, injury or syndrome) to dream big and follow their bliss.Written from a non-medical perspective, this...

Winner of a 2012 Preferred Choice Award by Creative Child Magazine, the first book of its kind that tells children with autism they are KIDS with autism, as it gently pokes fun of the onerous label "autistic." The readers will feel better about...