Kids Books - Fiction

This is story starts with two young children named Gretel and Hans Brinker. They are poor with a father, paralyzed, and a mother who is kind and warm-hearted. Hilda, a daughter of the rich mayor gives Hans eight kwartjes, or eight pieces of silver to buy skates for the skate race. Hans wants Gretel to have warm clothes while Gretel wants Hans to have the skates. Hans will pay Hilda back with a beautiful wooden necklace. Hans has a talent in carving and studies, Gretel in baking and singing. When Hans meets the doctor he wants to save his father….

Professor William Waterman Sherman wants some free, peace and quiet. Aboard the Globe, a hot air balloon he leaves San Francisco on a journey for a year, or so he says. The wind and the gulls happen to blow him to a island called The Pacific Island, Krakatoa. He meets Mr. F who explains to him that to others the island is an inhabited place so he says the a professor would have landed here anyway. They would have shot his balloon (so he could land) for this island is a secret. In Krakatoa there are volcanic land quakes, unimaginable wealth of diamonds, and much friendly people. The only catch, Professor William Waterman Sherman is not allowed to leave the island... The professor once again learns about the island’s government the “restaurant style” government, where each family(there are 20) owns a restaurant and they cook for the whole town once a week. There are various contraptions that make life easier, such as a bed that changes its own sheets. The professor now goes swimming often and he is telling his tale of San Francisco when the earth starts shaking violently and all jump to escape on the 21 balloon platform contraption. They live on Dutch cocoa and a dish of meat, sauerkraut, sausages, and gravy. Since the professor doesn’t have a parachute he must be remained to land the platform when all the others jump off to countries and close to the ground the F family, the professor’s friends does too. Now that is the tale of why he was stranded alone on with 21 balloons and 2 diamond cufflinks.

Do you know what a nisse is? If you don’t a nisse is a Norwegian mythical creature. It’s a similar a leprechaun. That’s what this book is about. Winterfrost by Michelle Houts it is about a girl named Bettina and her baby sister Pia and the nisse. Bettina and her baby sister Pia were home alone one week because an unexpected event made their parents leave. Bettina was in charge of the house, the barn and Baby Pia. A tradition for their family is on Christmas eve they leave out a bowl of rice pudding in the barn for the tiny nisse to eat. This Christmas the family forgets to put out rice pudding and the nisse feels neglected. The antagonist is the nisse and the protagonist is Bettina and Pia. One morning Bettina wakes up and there was a winterfrost which was very rare in Denmark. Bettina decides to put Pia in her crib to take a nap. As Pia was sleeping Bettina got tired too and slowly fell asleep. When Bettina wakes up she went to check on her and Pia was gone! Bettina got very worried so she went looking for her around the house and she wasn't there. She decides to look outside to see if she was there. As she walked out she saw something red moving super fast. She kept walking and she saw it again and again until she decided to follow it. It led her to a very very small house underneath a tree stump. She opened the door and she saw house full of nisse. I recommend this book to 10-13 year olds because Bettina is around that age.

What's creepy, mysterious, and that you can really relate too? It's The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberly Griffiths Little. It's very, very creepy and mysterious, if I haven't made that clear already. But the girl in the story, Larissa can be related to by almost anyone! Larissa's family has just moved to this new town where her mother lived when she grew up. They live in an antique shop, but there's one thing that they don't sell. They keep it in a locked glass box. It is a doll. An heirloom, really. With secrets from the past. Larissa receives a message on an old phone that's not supposed to work. It says: Follow the Fireflies. Trust the fireflies. Larissa finds the fireflies and goes back in time to when her great, great grandmother was a little girl and realizes that the doll was there since then. And everything bad that happened to the people in Larissa's family, the doll had seen it. When she gets back, her mother has news that she is going to have a baby girl. But the next day, her mom and the doll are gone. Her mother must have taken her doll with her. If everything Larissa knows about the doll is true, then her mother is in danger. Grave danger. Through suspense, and magic a secretive and mysterious book is unleashed: The Time of the Fireflies.

This book is about one day the bears decide they need to do a spring clean so they start at the bottom and work there way up....after they go to every room and take out a lot of stuff they decide to have a yard sale . After they see all of there stuff in the yard they decide that they want to keep all of the stuff they got rid of .so they put it all in the attic.this is a pretty funny book .I recommend it to new readers.its pretty little.thank u for reading my review - Pizzagirl7

This book is about 2 girls called Rachel and Kirsty. They are friends with the fairies and this time, Jack Frost was jealous he had no pets of his own so he stole all 7 of the pet keeper fairies' pets! When they were hiding the Easter eggs, Jane noticed a bunny and thought it was the Easter bunny! To find out what happens next, read this book!

This is a book about a girl who is invisible and in the background at school so when an old lady asks tells her she can have whatever she likes, Wilma Sturtz asks to be the most popular girl in school. Suddenly she has everything she wished for and more, but nothing lasts forever. Wilma is faced with the problem that her time in the spotlight is running out. This is a great book and I really enjoyed reading it!

I loves this book because in one part Pinkalicious brought Goldie, her unicorn, to school. But Goldie doesn't know any of the rules for school... Read the book to find out what happens next! I hope you enjoy your review! I recommend this book for ages 4-5!

I discovered this book yesterday, and I love it! The plot is so unique, and I have read many books that try to replicate that idea, and they did not succeed. But Liz Braswell accomplished the goal. I loved this book!!!

The second book in the "Warriors: Broken Code series" is much better than the first one! In the novel, Bramblestar is still trying to convince an apprentice named Rootpaw that another spirit is taking control over Bramlestar's body. Rootpaw finally gives in, and he runs to Thunderclan to pass on the news. there, Bristlefrost meets Rootpaw and gets the message. She passes it on to Squirrelflight, who gets suspicious of Bramblestar. Shafdowsight realizes that his visions were not from Starclan and tries to make things right again.