Kid Magic Adventures

Meet Andrew: A curious boy who loves the night sky more than anything. One windy, whooshy night, a piece of the cosmos decides to visit! It lands with a soft plink in Andrew's backyard a perfect, shining glass bauble, humming softly and full of dancing starlight. He names his new, magical secret Twinkle. Keeping a star hidden is harder than Andrew thinks! Twinkle lights up his bedroom like midday, confuses the school goldfish, and accidentally causes The Great Power Outage! With the help of his wise Granny Dot and a grumpy attic squirrel named Mr.

Get ready to make a splash! Eight-year-old Ava and her twin brother, Danny, are ready for the most epic day ever at the Aqua-Splash Adventure waterpark. Danny has the map, Ava is ready for the thrills, and nothing can stop them! Or can it? The day starts with a sticky sunscreen scramble and quickly turns into map mayhem at the front gate. Before they can even dip a toe in the chilly Shiver River, they have to solve The Case of the Missing Locker Key.

Have you ever taken a step so big it covered a zillion miles? Duke is about to. Duke isn't just any boy he's an explorer. With his shiny Adventuring Boots polished and a very important, cinnamon-scented letter in his pocket, he's ready for a quest. His mission? To deliver a letter to the Man in the Moon, who has sadly lost his laugh. But Duke isn't going alone. He has Barnaby, his trusty (and surprisingly fast) flying pet snail, who zips through the air with a tiny, determined zumm-zumm-zumm. The Zillion-Mile Journey isn't a walk in the park.

Ten-year-old Ryan has a knack for inventing, and his big sister, twelve-year-old Abigail, has a knack for getting them out of trouble. But their biggest adventure yet starts with an old boat, a snapped rope, and a river that simply refuses to slow down! When "The River Sprinter" breaks loose from Grandpa Finn's dock, Ryan, Abigail, and their mischievous terrier Sparky are launched into a chaotic, unstoppable adventure. They didn't ask for a wild ride, but now they're stuck on a runaway boat with no engine and no way to stop!

Rhodes is not an adventurer. He's a kid who likes video games and exploring his grandpa's attic, a place that smells of old wood and forgotten secrets. But when a glint of silver leads him to a dusty, rolled-up map and a strange, golden hourglass, his ordinary life is turned upside down. This is no ordinary hourglass. His Grandpa Silas reveals it is the Chronos Hourglass, a magical artifact that doesn't just measure time, it holds it. And the shimmering map? It's a guide to the Golden Desert of Aeon, a place where time itself has gone sideways.

What happens when the world’s sparkle decides to take a vacation? For Dave, every day is a masterpiece. He loves the fiery RED of his stop sign, the bright YELLOW of the happy sun, and the deep BLUE of the ocean. His best friend, Mark the playful puppy, is just as colorful! But one very grey morning, Dave wakes up and everything is... gone. His sunny sky is dull. His favorite strawberries look like grey pebbles. The world has turned into a giant, boring, black-and-white photograph! The Colors, tired of being taken for granted, have packed their bags and run away!

Finnian is a brand-new Journeyman Mapmaker, and he's ready for his first grand adventure. He has a new backpack, sharp pencils, and sturdy boots. There's just one tiny problem... After a fizzy, sputtering accident in a potion shop, Finn is stuck with a Fumble, a tiny, chaotic, and very clumsy Jinx. Suddenly, Finn’s luck takes a tumble. His boots magically swap to the wrong feet and rope bridges bounce him like a trampoline. Even his most precious maps fold themselves into origami swans! To stop the magical mischief, Finn must find the mysterious Wise Woman of Wobbly Creek.

Twelve-year-old Lora has always believed the sea holds secrets. But when she finds a mysterious bottle washed ashore, she discovers a secret bigger than she ever imagined: a riddle written in starlight ink, leading to an island that doesn't exist on any map. This is the Isle of Echoing Oaths, a magical land powered by ancient promises. But the island's magic is fading. The whispers of its vows are growing faint, and a shadow of forgotten promises threatens to silence its vibrant heart forever.

Arlo isn't just new to Sunnybrook Elementary—he’s new to the entire century! Created in a secret lab, he is the clone of the legendary King Arthur, made to bring a little old-school courage to the modern world. He thinks his biggest challenge will be figuring out cafeteria food, but that all changes when he effortlessly pulls a rusty sword from a concrete block in the schoolyard, a feat no one else could manage. Suddenly, Arlo is on a quest from Merlin himself (who now sends cryptic emails full of emojis) to assemble a new Knights of the Round Table.

Lila’s pocket doesn’t hold ordinary things like sticky candies or smooth, gray stones. It holds a secret folded into a tiny, perfect square: a poem. It's her most precious treasure, a whispering crinkle against the denim that only she can hear, and a magical warmth that glows against her leg when the world feels too big. In a town full of gray, clanging noises and people too busy to listen, Lila’s poem is her most faithful companion. But what happens when a secret doesn't want to be a secret anymore?

The Star-Shaman's Apprentice Fraser has a secret. In the sleepy village of Dewdrop Hollow, he's known for being clumsy with fences and hopeless at churning butter. But when the sun goes down, Fraser's true talent awakens. He can read the sky. He knows the prickly, cold scent of a constellation and the fizzy, lemon-tang of a shooting star. One night, a star doesn't fall down, it falls up, pulling Fraser to the forbidden summit of Whisperwind Peak. There, in a cave glowing with magic, he meets Eldrin: a powerful shaman with eyes made of swirling, living stardust.

Zola lives in a quartz cottage on the very last cliff of anywhere, with only the vast, silent Void for a neighbor. She's sure she's the loneliest girl in the universe. But one night, the Void... whispers. It’s a tiny, shivering, lonely sound that pulls at her heart. To answer it, Zola must captain her great-grandmother’s ship, a magical vessel woven from moonlight and twine. With jars of cinnamon-scented starlight for fuel, she leaps into the inky black.

Meet Barnaby "Bar" Willowbrook, the newest and most unlikely Warden of the Wildwood. He's only eleven, and his ancient, magical forest has a very modern problem: a colossal, humming metal tower is polluting the air with an invisible force known as WiFi. The forest is officially glitching!

Join Kiki, the beloved young witch, and her clever cat Jiji in the enchanting sequel to the modern classic! This new translation will reveal more to the story that inspired the Hayao Miyazaki film, Kiki's Delivery Service. It has been a year since Kiki started her new life as an...

When his friends aren’t successful at spooking the children who visit the haunted house, Gus must present his unique superpowers to give them a scare!

Stargazey World follows the story of Sheena Robinson, a feisty, complex youngster who often feels guilty about her lack of concentration. At school her work doesn't improve and her chaotic mop of tangled green hair is mocked, but this feisty Scouser has the ready wit and true grit to deal with her bullies. When Sheena visits Cornwall for her cousin's wedding, she must share a bedroom with the tomboyish Carys. By day everything is normal, but by night the animals on the bedroom wallpaper come to life.

Tom, Katie, Chad, Sharice, and Melissa have two more artifacts to find before they can return home. However, the search isn't easy when they must stay vigilant against treacherous nightmare creatures and the ever-spreading Blank that threatens to destroy everything around them. Back in Cedarville, Minnesota, Mr. Blackburn, the school librarian who sent Tom and his friends to Phantasmagoria, is fighting his own battles. Will he be able to protect the town? Can he teach the unfrozen residents to use the powers of imagination before Morgrim finds them?

A New York Times Bestseller An Indiebound Bestseller A Kids' Next Top Ten Book A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection A Junior Library Guild Selection One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Reads “Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an...

Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to...

In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinson's unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter's mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business. Far off on Flaster Isle, famed inventor Horace Flasterborn plans to take Walter under his wing. When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, he and the moody one-eyed girl next door run away and journey through a strange landscape of fish-people, giantess miners, and hypnotized honeybees.