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A Useless Series, Book 1: Useless and the Mandala Trap by Margaret Pearce

They called him Useless. He kept proving them wrong. Ewen Euston is not the obvious hero. He is the overlooked kid, the one with the world's most embarrassing nickname, the one nobody watches closely enough to stop. Which turns out, book after book, to be exactly the right qualification for the job. A Useless Series follows Ewen and his friends through five middle-grade science fiction adventures, each one a complete story and each one funnier and more dangerous than it…
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A Useless Series, Book 4: Useless and the Seventh Choice by Margaret Pearce

Coming Soon!   Everyday life can turn extraordinary in an instant. For Ewen "Useless" Euston, a swirling mandala on the oval, a mysterious carnival, or even a second-hand computer game can open gateways to worlds where children vanish, villages crumble, and alien threats rise. Alongside loyal friends and faithful dogs, Useless must outwit kidnappers, overlords, clones, and even giant ants if he wants to bring everyone home. Packed with humour, heart, and nail-biting twists, A Useless Series delivers fast-paced sci-fi…
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A Useless Series by Margaret Pearce

Everyday life can turn extraordinary in an instant. For Ewen "Useless" Euston, a swirling mandala on the oval, a mysterious carnival, or even a second-hand computer game can open gateways to worlds where children vanish, villages crumble, and alien threats rise. Alongside loyal friends and faithful dogs, Useless must outwit kidnappers, overlords, clones, and even giant ants if he wants to bring everyone home. Packed with humour, heart, and nail-biting twists, A Useless Series delivers fast-paced sci-fi adventures where ordinary…
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Heroes and Heroines in Children’s Fiction: Why the Characters We Meet at Ten Stay With Us Forever by Writers Exchange E-Publishing

What makes a hero in a children's book? The question sounds simple, but the best authors have always known that the answer is more complicated than a sword, a quest, or a tidy moral lesson at the end. The heroes and heroines who endure in children's fiction are not the ones who win because they are strongest or cleverest or bravest in the conventional sense. They are the ones who are recognisably, stubbornly, vulnerably human, and who discover something true…
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Learning Through Stories: Educational Themes in Children’s Books by Writers Exchange E-Publishing

There is a question worth asking before a child is handed a book: what exactly are they receiving? The obvious answer is a story. The more interesting answer is that they are receiving a way of understanding the world. Children's books have always done more than entertain. At their best, they are the first sustained encounter a young person has with ideas that matter: moral complexity, social difference, the consequences of choice, the reality of other people's inner lives. The…
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The Magic Clown by Cathan

Once upon a time in a faraway land on the other side of the moon, lived a beautiful four-year-old princess named Nicole. Princess Nicole's parents, the King and Queen, were away for a six-month journey to visit the farthest star. While the king was away, Prince George (Nicole's uncle, Prince of Sunbeams), was to be her guardian. Only Prince George wasn't a nice Uncle, he wanted to be king and he wanted HIS daughter to be the favourite. So he…
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Sherry Sharples by Margaret Pearce

  Chapter 1 "I'm not going to be disposed of like an unwanted piece of garbage," Sherry stormed. She pointed her mobile phone accusingly at her mother. "The arrangement was that I spend these holidays with you." "Not this time! Your father is picking you up," her mother said. "Now try and put a pleasant look on your face." Sherry scowled at her reflection in the mirror. She was eleven, but already as tall as her mother. She had the…
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The Convertible Couch by Margaret Pearce

  Chapter 1   Benjamin Bateman, known to friends and enemies as Beebie, scuffed his feet and squirmed. Other kids whispered, shuffled, clattered pens and rulers, and opened and shut books. In exactly ten minutes the bell would sound, and the tyranny of school would be over for the weekend break. The wandering eyes of Mr. James, his teacher lingered on him. He straightened up and sat very still. Today of all days he didn't want a detention. He had…
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A Bernie Bolton Book: Bernie Bolton’s Book by S. B. Sturdevant

    Continue the series:   WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28   I got this book today and I'll explain all about that in a minute, but I have to tell ya' that I think it's really freaky trying to talk to a pencil and a spiral notebook. I didn't even get the color I wanted, which was red. Instead I wound up with white! Can you imagine anything in my house being white and staying that way for three months? I'm…
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A Bernie Bolton Book: Bernie Bolton’s Brother by S. B. Sturdevant

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the series:   THE END   Just because Bernie Bolton turned ten that summer, don't get the idea it was a great summer for her...because it wasn't. In fact, it was probably the most awful summer of her whole life, so far. But, don't get the idea it was a hideous summer either, because it wasn't. What it was, was the summer she…
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A Bernie Bolton Book: Bernie Bolton’s Big Apple Christmas by S. B. Sturdevant

Bernice Blossom Bolton--Bernie--is a nine-and-a-half-year-old force to be reckoned with as she charges head-first into the 21st century. Feisty and fun, liberated and opinionated, she's ready to take on the world.   (ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the series:   CHAPTER 1 THE ULTIMATE WORST   If you asked any kid in the whole entire world to make a list of the worst possible things that could happen,…
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The Secret in the Compost Bin by Margaret Pearce

      Chapter One The Mystery Egg   Jeremy and his parents had shifted into the nicest house in the street, and he hated it! He was glad it was right beside his aunt and uncle's home, which was the untidiest house in the street, so at least he could play with his cousin Kate. Otherwise, he just wished and wished they were back in their inner suburban flat. No one understood why he hated the new house so…
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The Scarlett Quest by Margaret Pearce

    Chapter one   John Scarlett was triumphant. His perilous experiment had succeeded. Parallel universes were a reality! He had arrived! He stood in the clearing on the side of a hill; a short, slightly built young man with overlong fair hair and pale blue eyes, wearing a long‑sleeved coarse white cotton shirt, black leather motorbike pants and boots. The air had the freshness and cleanness of a pre-industrial age. No combustion engines, industrial smog or even wood smoke.…
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The Edge of Forever by Margaret Pearce

    Chapter one   Jane Smith drank her milk and watched her mother washing breakfast dishes. Her mother was small, dark and quick-moving, and at the moment, very upset. Jane felt guilty. The question had just forced itself out. "Was there something wrong with us that my father left?" Perhaps if there were any relations at all she wouldn't feel so unwanted, or such an oddity.  As it was, the resentment was forever there against the unknown father who…
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Caught in Willaburra by Margaret Pearce

  Chapter One   I opened my eyes to dull spaciousness, and a silence as muffling as cotton wool. I was in a hospital bed. Had I been ill?  I didn't feel pain or weakness. Come to think of it, I didn't feel anything!  I pushed back the grey-white covers and slid off the high bed. Although I only wore a skimpy hospital gown, I was neither warm nor cold, and the floor under my bare feet was just slippery.…
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A Belinda Robinson Novel Series, Book 3: Belinda and the Missing Will by Margaret Pearce

Meet Belinda--a bright, inquisitive girl whose life is full of unexpected twists! With the help of her grandmother, her animal friends, and her unstoppable curiosity, Belinda tackles everything from talking cats to family mysteries. These delightful chapter books for kids blend everyday life with a hint of the magical. Perfect for fans of spunky heroines, quirky adventures, and family-friendly mysteries!   Continue the Series: Chapter 3   "Do you think you should come with us after all?" Belinda's father had…
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A Belinda Robinson Novel Series, Book 2: Belinda and the Holidays it Rained by Margaret Pearce

Her grandmother rides a vacuum cleaner. Her cat talks--when he feels like it. And nothing will ever be ordinary again. When Grandmother Matilda arrives with twinkling green eyes, a pretty straw hat, and a grumpy Siamese cat named Senna, Belinda Robinson's lonely world transforms overnight. Across three adventures, Belinda and her friends Kate and Amanda discover that their kittens have a very unusual talent, that some houses hold secrets far older than anyone imagined, and that courage means solving problems…
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A Belinda Robinson Novel Series, Book 1: Belinda and the Witch’s Cat by Margaret Pearce

Her grandmother rides a vacuum cleaner. Her cat talks--when he feels like it. And nothing will ever be ordinary again. When Grandmother Matilda arrives with twinkling green eyes, a pretty straw hat, and a grumpy Siamese cat named Senna, Belinda Robinson's lonely world transforms overnight. Across three adventures, Belinda and her friends Kate and Amanda discover that their kittens have a very unusual talent, that some houses hold secrets far older than anyone imagined, and that courage means solving problems…
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Time Travellers Trilogy, Book 3: Creating Futures by Linda Massola

When the Stanton kids take a trip in the time machine into the year 3010, they meet up with a race of people called the Troikas who are intent on creating perfect human beings. Initially, the children are impressed with their abilities, but, after they realise that the Troikas aren't what they seem to be, they decide they better return to their time--fast. However, the Troikas have other plans. The children will need to employ every trick they can think…