Books with author Kimberley Scott

A gloriously inventive story of rip-roaring racing cars and chocolate milkshakes by Jake Sparks. When Danny Crankshaft's inventor parents build him a racing car for his seventh birthday, he doesn't realize how much it will change his life. Because Monty is more than your average car. Not only does he run on chocolate milkshakes instead of gas, he can actually talk by revving his engine. But when Danny and Monty enter the Tooting Wallop Cup, they find themselves up against Hugo de Horrible—the nastiest man in town. Can Monty win the cup, or will Hugo's cheating ways let him lift the prize?

Michaela Calynda Scott: Warrior She doesn’t look the part. She’s petite and pretty and prone to tears. But Kayla could barely remember a time when she wasn’t doing battle. The experiences of her childhood might not have caused the disorder that invaded her brain at adolescence, but the two combined to lead her into some very bad decisions. Those decisions, in turn, set off a chain of events that left her orphaned and pregnant at 17. Now she’s a single young mother making her first tentative steps into adulthood, struggling to find real and solid ground under the shifting realities of her own brain. It wouldn’t be possible without the love and support of her remaining family. Building a life near them is the best possible choice she could make for herself and her son. But that means staying in the small town where the barely hidden secrets of her past may rise up, at any moment, to bury her in shame. A year ago, a mysterious legacy had been passed to Kayla and her aunt and her cousins. Along with the legacy came the knowledge that her illness was part and parcel of the mantle of magic that settled around Kayla’s shoulders. It had been hers for centuries. The legacy foretold a challenge ahead, the full nature of which was yet unknown. The message to Kayla, however, was quite clear: the fate of her loved ones—the destinies, even, of their spirits—would depend on her willingness to face down her fears and find the pulse of power that beat at the heart of her weakness.

A third wonderfully warm story about the irresistible Tilly, from bestselling author Hilary McKayTilly is keeping a dragon in her bedroom. Tilly’s family are very worried about it, even though the dragon is very nice and can help make brilliant crunchy toast. So the dragon has to go. It’s up to Tilly to find a place that a very polite, very hot, and very smoky dragon can call home.

I guess the first thing I want you to understand is that it never felt like ‘magic’ to me. Everything that was happening in my life, it’s just what was normal for me. That’s how it is for everyone, right? Don’t we all start off thinking that everyone’s life is just like ours? When I was little, my Grandma used to say I was ‘wise beyond my years.’ Mom’s version of that went more like ‘too smart for my own good.’ By the time I was 7 or 8, I kinda started to understand that maybe my ‘normal’ wasn’t the same as everyone else’s, that I could do stuff that other people couldn’t do. But, hey, my best friend could do a perfect cartwheel and I fell on my head every time I tried. People are good at different stuff, right? The last couple of years, though, some things have been happening that—well, even I have to admit—if it’s not ‘magic,’ it’s a level of ‘normal’ that doesn’t seem to happen to most people. Then, on the first day of school in the 8th grade, I met a boy who looks just like me. Figuring out how that coulda happened led me, at first, to more questions. Before it was over, I had answers to questions I didn’t even know to ask.

When Danny Crankshaft’s inventor parents build him a racing car for his seventh birthday, he doesn’t realize how much it will change his life. Because Monty is more than your average car. Not only does he run on chocolate milkshakes instead of petrol, he can actually talk by revving his engine. But when Danny and Monty enter the Tooting Wallop Cup, they find themselves up against Hugo de Horrible – the nastiest man in town. Can Monty win the cup, or will Hugo’s cheating ways let him lift the prize?