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Having missed Christmas battling cancer the past two years, Benjay is excited to celebrate all the holiday traditions with his family. Christmas activities take a perilous turn with a robbery at the century-old bank where Benjay’s mother works. Benjay’s new Bubble friend Peepers has a feeling that her human friend is in danger. Her fears intensify with the ominous vision from a visiting Elder. With a secret motive, the Bubble Elders launch a mission to verify the vision. Peepers and her older brother Fret leave to investigate the curious vision, not knowing the danger they will encounter.

Seven-year-old Benjay wishes people treated him normally. He feels normal; he’s just missing part of his leg after dealing with cancer. Fueled by an overactive imagination and a humourous way of expressing himself, Benjay’s life takes an extraordinary turn due to an encounter with a magical Bubble. The more he learns about the Bubbles, the more he realizes his family will think he’s spinning another tall tale. With his father in danger from crooks sabotaging his project, how can Benjay make his family trust that Bubbles are not only real but are possibly the only chance to save the day?

From Lisa Moore Ramée, author of the Walter Honor Award–winning A Good Kind of Trouble, comes her debut middle grade fantasy—an absorbing, imaginative adventure about a Black boy who has the magical ability to bring maps to life. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky...

Elnora Comstock lives with her widowed mother at the edge of Limberlost Swamp. Her mother is harsh and critical of her daughter, but Elnora is a loving girl who befriends all creatures. She is especially drawn to the beautiful moths that flutter through the trees in Limberlost. Although Elnora longs to go to high school, she has no money to pay for tuition and books. When her cruel mother refuses to help, all seems lost, until Elnora learns she can sell the rare insects she collects. Still, her journey through high school and college will be full of challenges - and surprises.

Seraphina’s journey to Raiven two-and-a-half years ago was more real to her than anything she’s ever experienced. All 12-year-old Seraphina seems to be doing lately is having dreams of Raiven and receiving visions and signs that Raiven and the rainbow crystal are in trouble again. But when she meets two friends who enter into her latest world of middle school - sweet and innocent Ava, and the new, cute kid with autism, Enzo - Seraphina is not the only one having these dreams…so are they. Their message? Come and bring the Special Boy Who Could.

Maggie Lavchek believes in magic. Magic doesn’t change things. It keeps them the same. Maybe that’s what she was hoping as the plane she had taken from her home in Seattle, Washington touched down on the airstrip in Westport, Connecticut. Maggie’s parents were divorced, and this was her yearly summer visit with her father and his wife Joanna, who had just had a baby. The four of them were going to spend part of the summer at Sawdy Pond, a lakeside cottage in Massachusetts. But from the start Maggie has a feeling things aren’t going to work out.