These just in! Brand new fiction for kids.

Snow in Summer by Jane Yolen

With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin,

Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden.  And her life

in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale;

her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on

her, and she is about to get a new baby brother.

But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking Summer's

mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim.  Things get

even worse when her father marries a woman who brings

poisons and a magical mirror into Summer's world.  Stepmama

puts up a pretty face, but Summer suspects she's up to no good.

Is Summer powerless to stop her?

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Joey is a war horse, but he wasn't always.

Once, long ago, he was a farm horse and a gentle

boy named Albert was his master. Then World War

I came along and changed everything.  Albert's father sells Joey

to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained

to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and

carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert of

of battlefields,  Among the clamoring of guns, and

plodding through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war

will ever end.  And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?

Abe Lincoln at Last! by Mary Pope Osborne

Are you ready for a presidential adventure? Jack and

Annie are! They are trying to get a special feather that will

help save Merlin's baby penguin, Penny.  When the magic

tree house whisks them back to Washington, D.C., in 1861, Jack

can't wait to meet Abraham Lincoln himself!  But the new

president is too busy to see them, as he is desperately trying

to save a nation in crisis.

When Jack and Annie ask for some magical help, they go

back even further in time to a mysterious woods.  Are these the same

woods where Abraham Lincoln takes his daily horse ride? If

so, can an orphan named Sam help them find Abe? Or will

Jack and Annie have to help Sam instead?

It's a race against time as Jack and Annie try to do the right thing.

Plus, they still have to aid a president and a troubled nation, as well as

get the object that will save Penny the penguin!

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose 

May is helping out on a neighbor's homestead - just

until Christmas, her pa promises.  But when a terrible

turn of events leaves her all alone, she must try to

find food and fuel - and courage- to make it 

through the approaching winter.

This gorgeous novel in verse by Caroline Starr Rose

will transport you to the Kansas prairie - to the endless

grassland, and to the suffocating closeness of 

the sod house where May is stranded.