The Child That Was Never Theirs is a powerful and deeply emotional story about belonging, survival, and the quiet strength of a child forced to grow up too soon.When young Lesedi leaves her home to live with her mother's new husband's family, she believes she is entering a place filled with love and opportunity. Instead, she slowly discovers a painful truth — that not every home is meant for every child. Treated differently from the other children, burdened with en...

When a boy is given a box by an angel who asks him to care for it, the task shapes his entire life.Originally published in DRAGONS AND DREAMS (edited by Jane Yolen) this is one of Bruce Coville's personal favorites among all his stories.

A young man seeks to understand the strange connection he feels to the wolves that live hear his village.Originally published in the anthology WEREWOLVES, edited by Jane Yolen. Republished in Bruce Coville's solo collection, ODDLY ENOUGH.

In 1912, the small mill town of Byng Inlet in northern Ontario burned to the ground. Very little of the original settlement remains to this day. Recently discovered letters tell the chilling story of how this once-thriving logging community became the ghost town it is now.

From the collection Dreamin' Dreams; A short ghost story in 3,500 words.It was strange seeing the old Picturedrome again. After twenty-five years I don't know what I expected, but I never thought it would be exactly as I remembered it.A gust of wind threw rain against me and peppered the door with tiny droplets, and somewhere in the deep, dark clouds, thunder rumbled ...

X-Men meets Beast Quest at the school for superheroes! An epic adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade - with amazing comic-book style illustrations**.*This is a free ebook sampler to give you a taste of this amazing series***Welcome to Hero Academy! Join Jack Beacon and your other new classmates at this secret school, where the lessons are more exciting than Maths and PE. When a portal from the evil underground realm of Noxx is discovered bene...

Deep in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, lies a secret. A secret that spoken of only by those old enough to remember the mistakes made by those prior. A secret that, even if whispered, could invoke a not so distant memory and a rage created from it. Unsuspecting of the night that lies before her, April quickly learns that terror and revenge can lie in the most unsuspecting places

Frances Itani's third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face, ignoring none of their turbulence or anguish, yet leaving us with a renewed sense of humanity. In these two sequences, she accomplishes inspiring acts of homage and remembrance.

This beautiful ebook edition of Ladybird Tales: Beauty and the Beast is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with Beauty's father traveling to the beast's castle through to the day Beauty returns to the castle to find the beast alone in the rose garden.Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Tales series include The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Cind...

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I do not fear death. I do not tremor at the thought of my eternity. I do not plea for mercy. Set in Elizabethan England a young girls choices lead her to face her few final breaths. But are her choices her own?

Southampton UK Spiritualist Clairvoyant Medium Peter Doswell talks openly and honestly about his childhood experiences including abuse and the death of a family member at an early age . Peter goes on to explain how he sat on development circle's and soon became aware of the spirit world and his spirit guide .