Hazel the Witch and the Cookie Cauldron
Hazel looks every inch the witch of Crooked Lane, pointed hat and bent broom and all, but her cauldron-shaped oven hides a secret she is too shy to tell.
Hazel looks every inch the witch of Crooked Lane, pointed hat and bent broom and all, but her cauldron-shaped oven hides a secret she is too shy to tell.
Hollowbrook's great oak is so old that nobody remembers a time before it, and when nine-year-old Wren asks aloud about the village's past, it answers.
Gilly the giraffe never says hello, and the village grows quietly colder around her, until a small mouse named Moe moves in next door.
At every meal the piglet Pip piles his plate high and scrapes the rest into the bucket, until a class trip shows him how long a field of wheat takes.
Pepper the parrot repeats anything he hears, from the garden gate to Grandpa's cough, which is a problem for ten-year-old Junie and her secret.
Rosie the rabbit grows the sweetest carrots in Willowmere, and when her cheerful friend Basil charges through the patch, something in her goes still.
Clara the cow is quiet and easily overlooked, but she notices what others miss, and when a lamb's faint cry drifts through the mist, she alone hears it.
Beyond the hills of Pebbleton lives Moss, a giant so large his feet make valleys, and the one thing that terrifies him is the smallest creature alive.
Sorting her grandfather's attic, ten-year-old Juno finds a hand-drawn map folded inside an old book of voyages, marked with a river, a mountain and a red X.
Maya has moved across the country mid-year, and at Willowbrook Elementary every table looks full and every seat seems saved for someone else.