By Braden M. McDonald, Illustrated by Max Strebel
Published December 13, 2016
CHAPTER ONE: HOLIDAY CHARACTER [dropcap]B[/dropcap]raden was very lucky in many ways. His only bad luck was that he had a severe allergy to rabbits. Not many have traveled the world by boat and are...
by Shelley Noel McFatter, Illustrated by Holly VVist
Published December 13, 2016
The icy air caressed Jeff's cheek, hissing softly through the gray-brown stubble that decorated his weather-beaten face. His faded leather boots smashed the freshly fallen snow, leaving a heavy imprint on each perfectly formed flake....
By Bonnie Robinson, Illustrated by Joe Lobosco
Published December 13, 2016
It's dead. That was twelve-year-old Julian Horowitz's first thought when he spotted the kitten in the white-blanketed woods when he was walking home from school. The kitten was vividly orange and bright white colored, reminding...
By Rachel Hellwig, Illustrated by the author
Published December 13, 2016
My holiday wish was to dance in the Nutcracker. I was eleven years old and a student of Charlotte Kingston Ballet School. My teacher, Mrs. Brooke, had told me that the director from the local...
By Lia Regal, Illustrated by Alina Eydel
Published December 13, 2016
I spent the first twelve years of my life in Brooklyn, New York, in the area below Park Slope. It was a nice neighborhood, with the brownstone houses lining the streets, dotting the sloping hills....
By Emily Blackmer, Illustrated by Anjali Thakkar
Published December 12, 2016
My eyes opened. Sitting up, I glanced at my clock on my nightstand, and read the green, fluorescent letters: 4:42 AM, three minutes before my alarm was due to go off. I stretched out my...
By Ryan Kinnavy, Illustrated by Devon Cole
Published December 12, 2016
John McCarty was warming up his arm. "Whip it in there!" yelled his friend, Stuart Johnson. He and Stuart played for the Rockets. The Rockets were the best baseball team in the league, all because...
By Andrea Albertini, Illustrated by Jessie Hennen
Published December 12, 2016
Julia arose at the early hour of four o'clock AM, fighting already bubbling nerves, and being careful not to wake her parents in the next room or her two younger siblings. She didn't want anyone...
By Megan Gannett, Illustrated by Leigh Marie Marshall
Published December 12, 2016
It had been almost a year since that fateful day last June when Lucy Livingstone's baby boy had died at the age of ten days. Catriona Livingstone, her twelve-year-old daughter, was accompanying Mr. and Mrs....
By Ingrid Johnson, Illustrated by Isabel Kimmelfield
Published December 12, 2016
The new girl stood over by the jungle gym, not climbing or talking to the other girls, but just standing there, peering into a brown lunch bag. She pulled something out of it, but I...
