Books with author Sydney Wentworth

After a wish is made, where does it go and how does it reach the destination? How do you know when the wish is granted? Could wishes travel along a rainbow then transferred to the clouds to traverse the world until granted? When Maribelle, a dedicated fairy, accidentally mixes up the wish sort, well, there is more at the end of the rainbow than a pot of gold.

Malcolm is a monster. Unfortunately, he has grown weary of spending his days causing mischief and breaking the rules. Malcolm longs for a good adventure. The number of possibilities is thrilling. There is exploring the moon and distant planets. Maybe, finding a long, lost buried treasure is always exciting. Of course, exploring uncharted territory or overcoming a fear would be a worthy pursuit. Where will the journey take Malcolm?

While on an afternoon geocaching outing, Logan finds a small cardboard tube containing an old scroll telling the tale of a great creature called the Summit Dancer. According to the legend, a young man seeking fame and fortune climbed the highest mountain to steal an egg from a Summit Dancer nest. The angry mountain roared to life engulfing the land in lava. The man escaped, but the eggs turned to stone. Logan finds a thunder egg in his father's old rock collection, and he is convinced it is a Summit Dancer egg. With the help of his friend, Jeremy, the boys set out on a quest to solve the mystery and release the Summit Dancer from the egg.

Every year the Henderson family spends a month at the beach house. The highlight of Chloe's summer is finding a small pearl in a clam. When Chloe decides to have the pearl set into a necklace, the shopkeeper tells her that it is a very rare and special stone. When this type of stone is exposed to the light of the full moon, the land and sea will become one. As her vacation ends, Chloe finds an injured beached sea turtle which is given the name Sophia. The following summer, the Henderson family is invited to watch a sea turtle hatching. In her excitement, Chloe forgets to take off her necklace and runs ahead of her family where she finds Sophia on the beach. As an expression of thanks for her help, Sophia tells Chloe the story of how there came to be both land and sea turtles. Chloe becomes distracted. When she looks back, Sophia is gone and her necklace has a dimming iridescent glow.

This is a tale exploring the question of what happens to missing socks. The narrator of the story is trying to find a favorite missing sock, and attributes the disappearance to a mischievous creature called a Sockipede. The story explores the questions about what Sockipedes do with the socks, identifying and capturing a Sockipede, and solving the mystery of missing socks.

This is a Tall Tale set in a peaceful mountain valley where butterflies spend the carefree days absorbing all the colors of the rainbow. Unknown to the people of the valley, there is a village if giants nestled in the mountain. One afternoon, a young giant boy sets out to play fetch with his new puppy. All the commotion causes the butterflies to abandon the valley resulting in paisley, plaid, stripes, polka dots, zig zag, neon, and checker board patterns being introduced in the valley. The question is how to return the town to normal.