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In a fantasy version of Meiji-era Japan, the country is in a constant state of change and chaos with the coming of the Black Ships and the opening of Japan to the rest of the world. It was a time when anything could happen, and probably did.On the southern island of Kyushu, two children who can turn into birds live with their adopted human parents. An evil feudal overlord kidnaps Azuki for the valuable white and orange feathers she sheds when she is a Toki-bird. Her courageous father dies trying to prevent her capture. With the help of the local birds and animals, her mother sets her free, but is also killed by the overlord’s men. With her parents dead at the evil overlord’s hands, a heartbroken Azuki flees. It’s all her fault! It’s her ridiculous ability to turn into a Toki-bird that caused everything horrible to happen! She destroyed her human family. Maybe she’ll do better as a bird. She’ll join her Toki-kin and give up being human at all. That will make things better. Won’t it? Shota, her brother, can turn into a sparrow, but nobody’s interested in his plain brown feathers. The best he can do is follow his mother’s directions and rouse his own bird-kin to help his sister fly free. But his mother is hurt! She is dying, and Shota can’t think about anything else. But before she dies, their mother tells him all is not lost at home or in the human world for either of her children. She will do whatever she can to help them, living or dead, and she makes of Shota a final request. Shota speeds after Azuki to tell her that they will lose their human inheritance and won’t be able to live in human society at all, ever, unless they return in time to claim it, and return they must, honoring their mother’s wishes. Shota plans to bring Azuki home whether she likes it or not. She is his sister! They must stay together! There must be a way for them to embrace their heritage, all of it — didn’t their mother tell him so?In her desperate search for her Toki-kin, Azuki visits egrets who send her off to the major Toki nesting grounds on Sado-ga-shima, far from their Kyushu home. On the way to a place she doesn’t know, unsure of her welcome, and with no clear directions other than “north and east”, Azuki weathers storms, encounters a fierce mountain ogre, and befriends a dragon who also has a secret. Will she ever reach her goal? What will she find when she gets there?Shota, smaller and slower, doggedly follows the directions from the egrets. In a dream, his late father comes to give him help in his quest to track his sister and bring her home. Shota thinks he knows where Azuki is going, but it’s far from a sure thing. She could join other Toki, she could make a wrong turn, she could give up the idea and do something else! Can he find her? Will he reach her in time? Even if he does, can they possibly get back before the deadline? He is helped on the way by sailors, finding in himself a love of the sea, makes a friend of a war-horse, earns some gold, and just maybe discovers a way to get them back in time to claim their human heritage, so they can live as themselves, even if that isn’t like anybody else.

Meet Kayleigh and read how she loves to play on the swing set at the park. Mommy and Daddy decide to buy her one for her birthday. She loves it so much. This book is a perfect little read for preschool age children.Readers Favorite 5-Star AwardReviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' FavoriteA Swing Set For Her Birthday by RyAnn Adams Hall is an adorable story that captures the excitement of Kayleigh, a little girl who gets a swing set for her birthday. Kayleigh loves to swing and she goes to the park or her friend’s house to play on their swing set. It is her favorite pastime during the day and her parents notice that. They decide to get her a swing set for her birthday. While Mommy and Kayleigh are away at the store, Daddy buys the swing set and builds it. When they get home, it starts raining and Mommy hopes Kayleigh will not see the swing set till it stops raining. The next morning when Kayleigh sees the swing set, she is really happy and excited. Kayleigh cannot wait to go out and play. She runs out without having her breakfast. She loves it very much.The story is simple and it captures the love, joy, and family bonding of Kayleigh and her parents. The story is warm and the love between Kayleigh and her parents is tangible throughout the book. Kayleigh’s excitement on seeing her new swing set is palpable to young readers. The illustrations are charming and they breathe life into the story and characters. It is a good story for bedtime storytelling and read aloud sessions in classrooms and school libraries. Books like this should be introduced to youngsters during their initial stages of reading because the story is nice and simple and it is a quick and easy read.

The Wormhole Adventures: Travel Is Relative introduces Barnaby, a talking raven, who stumbles upon an entry through time and space called a wormhole. He and his three new friends, Paul, Sebastian and Lynn, travel back in time where they meet the great physicist Albert Einstein. Einstein educates the children on his scientific theories. Much to the children’s surprise, Barnaby has his own fascinating story to tell.

Betty a beautiful frog is about to embark on a journey of the heart. A frog’s life is all Betty knows. So along with her family and friends her journey takes her to unfamiliar territory as she tries her best to raise a baby bird from birth. The little bird Bo-Bob not knowing any difference embraces his life as a frog.A loving story of pond species of all kind and a tiny bird that does things a bird does not normally do. Follow along as Betty and Bo-Bob encounter many adventures in and out of the water.

The Adventure of Shawn and Jeremy with Sister Nicole and the Hot Air Balloon is the second book in a series of stories of two brothers Shawn (age 10) and Jeremy (age 6) with their sister Nicole (age 2). The adventures are stories of heroism, fantasy and satire as told to them by their father. The children and their family become the main characters of these stories. The stories are told to them as they would take long rides in the car with their parents and fastened in for a journey of the imagination of the two boys. One day as the ride grew longer and longer, shawn asked Dad to tell them a storyand the stories became a reality to them.

Ace Canary and Dud Clutch is an old children’s story, written about 30 years ago. The original manuscript was very short; put away in an envelope and lost in a box in a closet. When I wrote it, it was for my own children, and never meant for publication. I recently come across it and re-wrote it, adding a few things to it. My oldest son Michael drew the illustrations, which are included with this publication.It is about a hound dog and a canary that go on a journey to find the magical land of Kabloopery. Ace had been told about the place while he was in vacationing during the winter cold months. Along the way, they meet some characters that lead Ace and Dud to Kabloopery. Further adventures in the land of Kabloopery are forth coming, but they needed to get there first.It is also important to recognize that the beautiful land called Kabloopery exists within an ugly tree called the Blubber Tree. This brings to mind that beautiful things can be found inside us, regardless of how we may see someone on the outside. It is a object lesson that many things may not be as they appear on the outside, but force us to look deeper than that.

A group of young people called the Find It Club go to Cruden Bay, Scotland to look for an ancient artifact hidden in the castle that inspired the story of Dracula. Broc, Chloe, their mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle and best friends stomp around the grounds and tunnels of Slains Castle looking for a piece of the cross upon which Jesus the Christ was crucified. It was believed by the locals that the cross had healing power. Cruden Bay is turned upside down with new religious fervor. Broc and Chloe's mother and best friends end up in jail in Royal Dornoch. It takes a miracle to get them out. Various religious powers want to possess the cross for their own purposes and power.

Follow the events of a young boy as he grows up in a small town. Each chapter tells a completely different hilarious event as Phil goes through just one year of his life. A camping trip with Old Gramps, to finding his first true love at an embarrassing school dance, Phil makes his way through childhood with the help of friends Insane Andy and Steve. The road he lives on is anything but dull when it comes to mischief. Guaranteed to keep you laughing throughout the entire book! Narrated by the author Phil Moisher, and told in first person format. The first book of a short series, and fun for all ages! Illustrations by Jackie Lee and Cheyanne Moisher.