Books

A Completely Different Place

By Mi-Kyoung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Johnny Nesbit wakes up in a pink bedroom that is inside a glass bottle, he soon realizes that he is battling the Strangers, the fairies that had stolen his baby sister a year earlier. Johnny returns to the Stranger country with his former classmate, Cheryl to try to save a group of kidnapped children [...]

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A Thief in the House of Memory

By Mi-Kyoung | Published: December 1, 2008

Six years ago, when Declan Steeple was 10 and his sister was just a baby, his mother, Lindy, disappeared, searching for something better than the dusty family estate with its generations of clutter and memory. Now the Steeples live in a modern split-level down the hill from the Big House, but the mansion is still [...]

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The Crazy Man

By Mi-Kyoung | Published: December 1, 2008

This novel in verse tells the story of a 11-year-old girl struggling to recover after a farm accident leaves her crippled and fatherless. After Emaline, 11, is crippled by a farm accident with her father’s tractor, Daddy kills her beloved dog, Prince, and walks away from the farm. Mom takes in Angus from the local [...]

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When I Was a Baby

By Mi-Kyoung | Published: October 29, 2008

Babies are very good at being babies, and when they grow up, they’re very good at being big kids, too.

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