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So, you want to write books for kids? Maybe you’ve got an idea for a slime-fueled jetpack, a misunderstood sandwich with dreams, or a lonely prankster who finds a time-travelling bin chicken. Maybe you don’t have a clue what you’re doing yet, but you do know you love stories, you love kids, and you’re ready to give this writing thing a real shot. Good news: this book’s for you. WRITING BOOKS FOR KIDS is a fast, funny, no-nonsense guide for anyone who wants to create unforgettable fiction for 6–14-year-olds. Whether you're hoping to write short chapter books, middle-grade magic ...

Welcome to Grimblewick, a town where the mail hums, the dogs stare blankly at screens, and your substitute teacher might be possessed by a glitter-obsessed kazoo cult. Twelve-year-old Pippa Quickblink has always stood out in Grimblewick. Raised by her eccentric, tech-fearing Aunt Hazel, Pippa doesn’t own a single screen, not a phone, tablet, TV, or even an electric toothbrush. While her classmates lose themselves in the latest apps and blinking gadgets, Pippa prefers dusty books, peculiar mysteries, and observing the town’s increasingly bizarre behavior. But when Grimblewick’s ...

Burps. Farts. Slime. And one epic, stinky jungle quest. Max Muckworthy wasn’t planning to save the world. He just wanted to prank his school with a soda-fueled burp bomb. But when he accidentally brings a glowing blob of fart-powered slime to life in his backyard compost heap, things get weird. Like rainbow-farting-warthog and slime-bursting-jungle weird. Meet Sludge, a rhyming goo-ball from the Fartopian Jungle, where animals communicate through burps, farts, and gooey grossness. Sludge needs Max and his prank-obsessed best friend, Zara Zapp, to stop Stinkora, a villainous, odor-hating ...

What if you could code your dream crush? What if they came to life, and immediately broke the internet? Maya Bronski is a sixteen-year-old coding prodigy with a major crush on the school’s Vibe king. Eli Torres is her sarcastic, 3D-print-obsessed best friend with a hopeless thing for a cheerleader who doesn’t know he exists. Tired of being invisible in high school and striking out in love, they decide to hack the system, literally. Using rogue AI, hologram tech, and data pulled from the Vibe app (think TikTok’s chaotic older cousin), they code their “perfect” partners: Chloe and ...

The Final Chapter in the Chronicles of Juniper Quill The stories are over. The Codex is closed. The portals have stopped opening. And Juniper Quill, once a girl who leapt between worlds with a pen in her pocket and questions in her chest, is now twenty-one, quiet, and convinced her story has ended. Until a letter arrives. No seal. No signature. Only ink that writes itself: He walks, but does not remember. Cornelius Vellum, the librarian who once rewrote destinies and sacrificed everything to save her, is alive, but trapped in a forgotten book, lost to the world and to himself. And the only ...

Some kids dream big. Finn Harper dreams dangerously! Every night, thirteen-year-old Finn slips into the Dreamscape, a realm of surreal worlds, wild creatures, and whispered fears, armed only with Flicker, his moody, half-magical lantern. As a junior Dreamkeeper, his job is to patch up nightmares before they spill into the waking world. No pressure! But when his best friend Lila’s little brother falls into a coma, and a forgotten villain known as the Nightmare Weaver resurfaces, Finn is pulled into a dangerous quest that spans collapsing dreambubbles, shape-shifting monsters, and a ...

Meet Milo Mischief: ten years old, utterly uncontainable, and genetically cursed with the Naughty Itch—a twitchy, tingly compulsion to prank that runs deep in the Mischief bloodline. When a single squirt of ancient, glowing Gloop-Galoo threatens to glue Troubleton Academy, its pigeons, and the entire mayoral staff into one big sticky mess, Milo’s reputation hits rock bottom (and bounces). Expulsion looms. The town turns on him. Even his sister Penelope starts sharpening her clipboard. But Milo has one chance to save his family, his school, and his gleefully disastrous legacy… Throw ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas... and Santa wanted BRAAAAAINS! 🧠 When Santa Claus is infected by zombie goo and starts groaning “Ho Ho Brains,” the North Pole spirals into holly-jolly horror. It’s up to three misfit kids from Frostbite Falls—science wiz Ellie, prank genius Diego, and truth-hunting journalist Priya—to team up with a coffee-addicted elf, a grumpy Easter Bunny, and Jack Frost (on a snowboard, naturally) to cure Santa and save Christmas. Their mission? Break into the Candy Cane Vault. Brew a magical cocoa cure. Survive zombie reindeer, sabotaged sleighs, sock-...

Twelve-year-old Kai Nguyen is a nobody at school, but in StarForge, he’s NebulaKnight: fearless, famous, and almost cool enough to wear a cape. When a cruel prank turns his gamer glory into public humiliation, Kai retreats from reality… until a mysterious arcade cabinet, a glowing token, and a tabletop roleplaying game start to blur the line between game and life. With bullies on his trail, friendships on the edge, and a magical trial unfolding, Kai must find the courage to fight back, not with laser axes, but with loyalty, imagination, and one very unexpected team. It’s game on... ...

Milo Mischief is back! And this time, the Naughty Itch has gone international… When Troubleton’s most chaotic prankster is rewarded with a “civilised” family trip to Venice, disaster is practically guaranteed. Between exploding tortellini, rampaging gondolas, and a masked prankster leaving vegetable-themed clues, Milo finds himself in the middle of a centuries-old veggie conspiracy, and the fate of Venice may depend on his biggest prank yet. Armed with fart-powered relics, glitter gadgets, and his legendary inability to behave, Milo must outwit the mysterious Violetta Verde, reunite...

Tommy & Lizzy are back in their most adventure-filled story yet! When fourteen-year-old Tommy discovers a weathered notebook tucked inside his late grandfather’s saddlebag, he never imagines it will launch him into a forgotten pact, and a mystery buried beneath decades of red dust. The notebook holds clues to a trail hidden across the outback: carved cattle brands, spiral stones, and cryptic poems that lead not to gold, but to something far more dangerous... and far more important. With his loyal Blue Heeler Lizzy, her two wild pups, and sharp-witted classmate Ellie by his side, Tommy ...

TOOTS. TREMORS. TOTAL CHAOS. Just when Max Muckworthy and Gertie McStumble (orGassy Gertie as she hates to be known) thought Gunkville couldn’t get any stinkier, a mysterious fartquake splits the town in two—and out stomps a monster with a backside so powerful it could flatten cities. Meet Fartypantszilla: a skyscraper-sized, thunderbutt lizard with chili-breath, burp-blast feet, and a bad attitude. As the government rolls in with soap cannons and lavender bombs, Max and Zara team up with their old gooey friend Sludge and a heroic warthog named Puddles to uncover the truth: ...

Something hairy just ripped a thunder-fart through the jungle… and it’s headed for Gunkville. Meet King Kong Pong—a skyscraper-sized gorilla with banana breath so bad it melts tree bark, dreadpits that launch pong grenades, and a tail-slap that creates actual stinkquakes. When the jungle starts gagging and the clouds turn brown, Max Muckworthy, Gertie McStumble, Sludge, and their rainbow-farting warthog Puddles must face their most toxic mission yet. With the help of burping fruit bats and a legendary artifact called the Sacred Nosebell, they’ll have to swing, slide, and stink-blast...

Zodee appears to Jade and they start getting into trouble.

In the magical town of La Melodía, music isn’t just something you hear, it’s something you feel, something that lives in the trees, the rivers, even the sky. Twelve-year-old Zurina Morales has a voice like a summer breeze, but stage fright has always silenced her dreams. When she discovers an ancient silver microphone in her late grandmother’s attic, etched with glowing notes and a mysterious message, Zurina’s world begins to shimmer with impossible magic: her lyrics start coming to life. From starlit birds to storms of sound, her songs summon beauty and chaos in equal measure. But...

A fart-blasting griffin. A bull-headed beast with a stink to wake the dead. And a slime-powered squad stuck in ancient Crete with nothing but rainbow gas and a burping book to save the day. When the Ooze Almanac zaps Max, Zara, Sludge, and their legendary flatulent warthog, Puddles, into the Slime Labyrinth of myth, they discover a rotten plan centuries in the making. The fearsome Mingotaur is about to awaken the ancient Stink-Titan, a goo-monster so foul it could turn the whole galaxy into a reeking mess. Armed with skidding Skiffs, exploding slime grenades, and Puddles’ explosive butt-...

A galactic blast of farts, goo, and heroic stink-squad chaos! Max, Zara, Sludge, and the ever-gassy Puddles are BACK, and things are about to get a whole lot stinkier. When glowing poop-pods crash into the Goo Galaxy Flats, the squad faces their grossest mission yet: stop the Turdoid invasion and steal the Stink-Core from a flying turd-shaped spaceship before the Mega-Muck Meteor stinkifies Earth forever! But alien fart-shields, gooey gremlins, exploding poo-balls, and the villainous Grand Poobah Plopulus stand in their way. Armed with The Ooze Almanac, a hacked Stench-o-Meter, rainbow-...

HOLD YOUR NOSE! THE GLOOMFART IS COMING. Just when Max thought life in Gunkville couldn’t get any grosser, a glowing green fart-cloud called the Great Gloomfart threatens to stink up the whole world. Worse? It’s being summoned by Count Rankula, a swamp-slurping vampire with yellow eyeballs, a moldy cape, and a magical Stench Scepter powered by pure pong. There’s only one thing that can stop him: the Stinkstone, an ancient, slime-encrusted gem buried deep in the Miasma Marshes and guarded by Frankenslime, a massive burping swamp-monster stitched together from leftover goo and broken ...

When Jack, Ella and Chen are forced to spend a rainy week with Grandma Finerman, they predict they’ll die of boredom. That all changes when they find a vintage yellow raincoat in her attic which magically transports whoever wears it into the body of a great magician, Augustus Semprini. More than a century earlier, Augustus stole a family heirloom from a witch, and as punishment, she cursed him to spend his remaining days trapped within the threads of the raincoat. With the freedom that being a grown-up provides them, the three kids are now able to fulfil their heart’s desires. Chen, a ...

Santa’s on probation. The algorithm’s out for his job. And Christmas just got weird. After a disastrous holiday season with a 90 percent return rate, Santa Claus is summoned by the Pantheon of Perpetual Wonder, the mythic HR department of all fictional beings, and told he’ll be replaced by the sleek new AI, NOEL-1, unless global belief climbs above 70 percent before Christmas Eve. Determined to prove that human magic still matters, Santa goes undercover at his estranged daughter Joy’s suburban high school as “Nick Chrisman,” a 300-year-old legend disguised as a very confused gap...