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Kitty Ranchero’s Adventures
By Layla Andrade Lantz, age 8
Diary of a Rebel
By Ruby Addie, age 9
Trent Pearson: The Lightning Man
By Adam Tang, age 10
The Facts I Learned About Jupiter
By Reese Z., age 8
The Town of Randomness
By Abe Effress, age 9
The Big Crystal
By Gianna, age 7
A Day at Work
By Barbara Weaver, age 10
The Subway Tragedy
By Sophie Redvers, age 10
I Never Wanted a Coffee Shop
By Sofia Gonzalez, age 8
Omar’s Great Adventure
By Aman, age 7
My First Year of Middle School
Anoushka Sawardekar
How Burritos Came To Be
By Lela Gavasheli, age 9
Prince Almando
By Cleo Saltz, age 9
The Life Cycle
By Ila, age 7
Mom’s Story Book
By Isaia Kohn, age 10
The Fire Prince
By Ava Orrantia, age 10
The Video Game
By Noah Um, age 9
The Night of the Pug Banshee
By Henry Kaplan, age 10
Becky’s Diary
By So-Ahn Kieffer-Kwon, age 9
The Turning Point
By Lawrence Han, age 11
A Rough Current
By Hannah, age 11
The Ultimate Paintball Match
By Matt, age 10
Star Gazer (Excerpt)
By Isra Qadri, age 11
The Boy, the Woman, and the Forest
By Gracie Espinosa, age 11
Far Past Is An Unknown Thing
By Avery H., age 11
Fawn
By Sheena Bakare, age 9
Flight Adventure
By Anonymous
Marker the Marker
By Noah Granada, age 7
And His Name is John Cena
By Grant P., age 9
The Trip
By Adhvika Karthik, age 9
The Scary Mystery: Chapter One
By Nikhil Narayan, age 11
Buzzer’s Adventure
By Alex S., age 8
The Art Thief
By Daniel Anton, age 10
Pink Is Pretty
By Anonymous
Press One at the Tone
By Abel L. Torres, age 11
A Strange Day at Writopia
By Madeline (age 10), Izy Lusk (age 11), and Max Peters (11)
Caribbean Adventure
By Aaron Gao, age 9
Pandora the Detective: How It All Began
By Sanya Sidhu, age 10
Madison and Mousey
By Rachel Alcazar, age 9
Another Peculiar Predicament
By Nikhil Gupta, age 11
My Life as a Dog
By Juliet Bu, age 10
The Mermaid Who Stole a Diamond
By Julia Aram, age 10
Element of Silver (Excerpt)
By Asbah Qadri, age 11
An Amber Story
By Maya Nichols, age 10
A Halloween Story: Series 2
By Christina, age 8
The Electric Masterpiece
By Anonymous
The Living Fart
By Miles K., age 9
Saving Dad
By Alisha Tomashevsky, age 8
How Humans Were Made
By Eve Robin Kaplan, age 9
Choose Your Own Adventure, Sort Of
By Izy Lusk, age 11
Annie’s Time Machine
By Caroline Carr, age 8
EXCERPT
By Nikhil Gupta, age 11
How Lego Was Created: A Series
By Grady Ramberg, age 10
Hamsterly Ever After
By Kate Lee, age 6
Lilly the Cat
By Brook Brownstein, age 11
Atlas
By Andrew Chen, age 9
The Man
By Darobo Acceber, age 11
Switching Sides
By Grace Alpern, age 9
Bluemoon
By M. Francisca Vivanco, age 10
Greek Gods
By Luca O, age 9
Camp
By Sarah Arevalo, age 11
Saving Santa
By Natalie Frank, age 11, Maigan, age 11, and Hannah Frank, age 12
The Quest to stop the monsters
By Aaron Gao, age 9
I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!
By Noah Um, age 9
T.G.I.F
By Violet DiBiasio, age 10
Nameless the Blameless & Congress
By Gabe Schierkolk, age 8
Elliot’s Adventure
By Romi Drubetskoy, Age 9
How Evil Came to Be
By Siena Quinn, age 10
December 13 1972
By Collin, age 10
SAM’S BIG ADVENTURE [ + the mailman ]
By Dalya Shaman, age 7
The Witch Books
By Mariema, age 11
A Halloween Story
By Christina M, age 8
The Bullying Lily
By Alisha T, age 8
The End of Time
By Elle McMahon, age 10
When You Kiss Me Goodnight
By Madeline Slogoff, age 10
Best Friends
By Lily Stein, age 11
The Big Fright
By Sreejato Chatterjee, age 11
Boo-Goo Land
By Lena DiBiasio, age 10
Gone, the Eraser
By Rafael Luttmann, age 9
The Legend of Games
By Haeun Kang, age 8
Qwercle’s Journey
By Lila Harris-Franks, age 8
Leila’s story
By Leila Cisse, age 8
Circus Monkeys
By Naomi Laronne, age 11
The Machine
By Daniel, age 10
A Great Basketball Season
By Ryan, age 8
SPACE ADVENTURE!
By Alex, age 7
A Dogs Story
By Cana Yao, age 7
Jessie
By Nicole, age 9
Jack-o-lantern
By Maddy, age 8
Forgotten Words
By Molly Breckman, age 11
The Change
By Max P, age 10
Gabriel’s story
By Gabe, age 7
The Adventures of Taco Dog
By Wolf C, age 9
The Black Hole
By Mariah Mendoza, age 11
West Poo
By Masara, age 11
A Strange New World
By Claire Abrams, age 11
The Minecraft Cheater
By Maxwell Berkow, age 9
Andrew’s Story
By Andrew Gu, age 10
The Attack of the Slender Men
By Lawrence Han, age 10
The Girl Who Went To Ecuador
By Juliana Valencia, age 10
The Glass Slipper
By Juliet Bu, age 10
Max’s Story
By Maxwell Berko, age 9
Don’t go into the dark
By Ryen Jones, age 11
Zombie Attack!
By Adam Tang, age 10
Native American Legend
By Xuming Li, age 9
My Big Family
By Avery Sohn, age 9
Allstar
By Sophia Torren, age 11
The Army
By Mark Pena, age 8
The Caught Happy and Sad
By Arthur Caer, age 9
The Day in Space
by Lena Gore, age 9
Tiger Girl
by Sheena Bakare, age 8
A Story of Fred and Bob
by Thomas Clark, age 9
Z-Town
by Finn, age 10
WW10
by Truman Muffett, age 7
Win Torture: The History of Plot Day
by Andranik Kaladjian-Webb, age 10
Valley Crescent’s Discovery: Book 1
by Asha Tallapragada, age 7
Valetr Valr Vapr
by Angeliki, age 6
Two Against One (Excerpt)
by JCG, age 9
Unicorn Rapunzel
by Rachel Abulafia, age 9
Trip to Yesterday
by Juliette Putman, age 10
Untitled
by Leila Jackson, age 11
To The Moon
by Casey Macron-Davis, age 9
Tom Anderson
by Aayan Mittal, age 8
Three Fun Stories
By Savnika T, age 8
Three Hours Til Morning
By Bella Orelowitz, age 11
The Werewolf
by Demetri, age 8
The Whale
By Andie Dougherty. age 10
The Werewolf
by Olivia Waymer, age 9
The Tragic (and Comedic) Life of Mr. Henry Billersworth
by Hilary Malamud, age 11
The Tragedy of the SS Minnow II
by Sam Lauricella, age 10
The Sunflower Seed
by Neha Soni, age 11
The Sun Thief (Excerpt)
by Lucy McCleary Keller, age 10
The Stray Cat!
by Mia B, age 8
The Soccer Tournament
by Spencer Eng, age 9
The Stolen Lives
by Sierra Krueger-Wolfe, age 11
The Secret World
by Maya Zervigon, age 9
THE SCREAMING KILLER
by Lucien Shih, age 9
The Rice Krispie Treat
by Maya, age 7
The Rewind
by Mariele, age 11
The Race
by GR, age 8
The Pyramid Snake
by Emma Willey, age 10
The Park Adventure
by Devan Soni, age 7
The Perfect Pet
by BSG, age 9
The Only One Armed Girl
by Amah Assoumou, age 11
The Paint Bomb Attack
by Emily Wang, age 8
The News That Changed My Life
by Rachel Bergman, age 10
The Mystery of the Black Figures
Ameneh Vaskio, age 8
The Nerd Clan
by Isioma Okoh, age 9
The Main Murder
by Soa Andria, age 8
The Mysterious Bully in School
by Angela Ortiz, age 7
The Magical Journey
by Mariam Choudri, age 9
The Long Walk
by Nellie, age 7
The Little Witch
by Lauren, age 10
The Infection: Ebola
by Bennett Elisha Cullison, age 11
The Ice Key
by Big Ben, age 9
The House Next Door
by Vera Saidel, age 10
The Ice Princess
by Ariana Alban Martinez, age 9
The Great Voyage
by Maximo Del Pino, age 10
The Great Chocolate Adventures
by Maya Beasley, age 10
The House Brain Gives Baby Trap Troubles for the Jedis and the Adam’s Family
by Rossi, age 8
The Fish
by Kuipi Lam, age 8
The Girl Who Could Run Like The Wind
by Leah, age 8
The Four Powers: Chapter 2
by Matthieu Choueiri, age 9
The Fate of the World
by Cole Thomas, age 10
The Evil Land
by Brianna Finnegan, age 11
The Dream That Nobody Gave Into
by Dylan Phoenix Small, age 10
The Downfall of Secrets and the Coming of the Month
by Gabriel Kraemer, age 10
The China Bunny
by Anonymous, age 8
The Cruise
by Sylvie Pearl Gross, age 9
The Christmas Portal
by Aiki, age 9
The Boy Named Dave
by Beauty Davis Hurley, age 7
The Bird and the Worm
by Char-Char, age 8
The Battle of Hope
by Emma Crick, age 7
The Ball of Mystery
by Langston Keene, age 10
The Adventures of Little Timmy
by Julian E. Dohi, age 10
The Almost Unperfect Family of 28 (Excerpt)
by Lila Boyle, age 10
The Abandoned Queen
by Ansh More, age 8
Swirls of Color
by Kayla Aldahondo, age 9
The Adventures of Fluffy and Fluff Ball
by Miles Brewster, age 8
Surprise!
by Francesca, age 8
Summer Feet (Excerpt)
by Anonymous, age 10
Speed Runner
by Jarone Johnson, age 10
Staying Strong
by Ava Bissell, age 11
SOUP TIME!
by Lee Walker Watson, age 9
Special (Prologue)
by Lily Lev, age 11
Sofia’s Quest
by Alexa H, age 9
Spank Union
by Jeremy, age 10
Sigh: The Story of Bill, and How He Escaped From One of the Most Infamous Criminals of All Time.
by Sebastian Waizenegger, age 10
Seedfolks
by Sameer Glazerman, age 11
Revise Your Entitlement
by Joaquin Contreras, age 11
Robbery
by Ava Levinson, age 11
Portal to Pluto
by Jeffrey Kunzweiler, age 8
Pumpkin
by Yana Serjantov, age 10
Phoebe
by Grace Punzalan, age 8
Pinky’s Adventure in Different Dimensions
by Sam Zwick-Lavinsky, age 8
Peregrine (Part 1)
by Brendan Martin Firvida, age 10
Phil
by Colton Rooney, age 8
Paperback Writer
by Brenden Hofman, age 8
Over the Wall
by Yuxi Tian, age 11
Once Upon A Time
by Devin, age 10
Old Man
by Jackson L, age 8
Music As Loud As My Sister
by Grayson Davis, age 10
Murders and Friendships
by Violet Jean, age 10
Monster
by Milla Duca, age 8
Monkey Do and His Family
by Nelson Liu, age 8
Max’s Talent
by Lucas Cerwinski, age 9
Mermaid’s Adventure
by Audrey, age 8
Magedom
by Liam Morin, age 10
Mark
by Caitlin Yang, age 7
Love War
by Emelia Zarb, age 9
London
by Clara Smith, age 9
Lollipop!
by Naomi Calhoun, age 10
Life of a Basketball
by Ben Punzalan, age 10
Lester the Leopard
by Ameneh Vaskio, age 8
Larry, UFO, and Boston
by Abraham Cunningham, age 8
Lenwood Causes Trouble
by Jeremy Nam, age 10
Katherine and Tammy
by Cana Yao, age 7
Larry the Purple Turtle
by Cyrus W. Najafi, age 9
Jay’s Mistake
by Ethan Schwartz, age 10
I Think They Were Twins
by Clay Gallivan, age 9
Jack and the Diamond Sword
by Victor Maddux, age 8
Is There Really A Witch?
by Alessandra Cipollone, age 9
Hide and Seek
by Denni Schwartz, age 9
Hearts And Horses
by Jillian Stahl, age 9
Head in a New Dimension
by Grace E. Mahon, age 11
Heart School
by Celia Powers, age 10
Goopy Dogs Save the Day!
by Victor Maddux, age 8
Hamburgler
by Ranja Andria, age 10
Going Up To The Bigs
by Jared Birman, age 9
Going Free
by Joshua Stern, age 11
Florence (Part 1)
by Violet Jean, age 10
gg
by Ceyon, age 10
Fire Emblem
by Dashiell Fisher, age 8
Finding the Perfect House
by Astrid, age 8
Excerpt from Leah’s Adventure
by Charlotte Le Bihan, age 8
Excerpt from Escape From Magic
by Bea Delafield, age 10
Find Them
by Sophia Liu, age 9
Emma
by Chloe Sales, age 10
Emily and the Land of Exbow
by Fiona Stirling Lui Martin, age 9
Different Girl
by Catherine Della Rocca, age 9
DJ Fly
by Dylan Kram, age 6
Dear Miss Fairy Godmother Sincerely, Her Majesty.
by Aria M N, age 9
Criminal Warehouse
by Maysea D, age 11
Csend-o
by Jackson Pryor, age 6
Clutterfunk
by Charlie Kunzweiler, age 10
Bubbles the Hamster
by G. Z. Wilkins, age 8
Callie and the Valentine’s Day Catastrophe
by Rota Safiri, age 11
Bucks, Bucky, Bucksy
by Minelle Jeddy, age 10
Botched Quiche
by Olivia Dixon, age 11
Box Man
by Wesley Bischoff, age 10
Book 1 and 2 of the Bob and George
by Ethan Katz, age 9
Bolt and Snowflake
by Nicole, age 9
Bobgoblin Adventures
by Rian, age 9
Blood Red Forest
by Valerie Franchitti, age 11
Back Together Again
by Nina Harris, age 10
Beth’s Journal
by Lena Tavernise, age 9
Baby Unicorn
by Olivia Waymer, age 9
Another Day Another Person
by Sydney J. Wiser, age 10
As Time Goes On (Excerpt)
by Talia Yett, age 10
Animal Breakout
by Sara Swamy, age 8
Adventure 1
by Jackson Pryor, age 6
An Army of Robots
by Alexander Hartley, age 8
A Race for Friends
by Ella Topkins, age 9
A Spell of Good
by Mirembe Mubanda, age 9
Abe Lincoln
by Katie Qin, age 7
A Perfect Halloween
by Taylor Swelstad, age 11
A Quest For Family
by Gigi Chen, age 9
A New Life
by S. S., age 10
A Love and Hate Relationship Between…
by Alexis Farber, age 10
A Great Vacation
by Katey, age 9
7 Keys
by Annika, age 9
#YOLO
by Anna B, age 11
…And His Name Is John Cena
by Oscar, age 10
#FairytaleBall
by Isabella Genes, age 10
“Animal Land” Disaster
by Elizabeth Ngai, age 10
Mr. Mobster
by Yorgo Vetter, age 11
Creation Myth (From Dragonfire Saga)
by George Chudley, age 10
Murder on May Street
by Demetra Chudley, age 9
Space Call Book #1: Battle on Mars
by Robert Jordan Marshall, age 8
The Willow Tree
by Hannah Giladi, age 11
Watermelon Specialty
by Hugo Chiasson, age 9
A Peculiar Predicament
by Nikhil Gupta
Gone
by Maya Katzive, age 9
Venessa and The Unknown Island
by Kina Desai, age 9
How Penguins and a Chicken Became a Dancing Group
by Ella Cho, age 8
Monster Jake: Book 1
by Jesse Pollock, age 8
The Great Bird Colonies
by Ali Woo, age 10
Footsteps
by Chloe Genick, age 10
A Million Ways to Have Fun
by Adam Diaz, age 9
The Everlasting Love Story
by Erinda Ratchford, age 8
Believe
by Madeline Slogoff, age 10
Sad
by Lina Robayo, age 11
God Like Thing
by Keaton Abbott, age 11
Professor Sunglass and the Bank Robber
by Ilan Goldfein, age 9
Pollyo
by Mac Faircloth, age 11
The Night Shift
by Joe Rosenblum,c age 10
Through Time
by Noam Ramot, age 9
The Famous Horn
by Miles Gumbs, age 8
Book 2: The Unexpected War
by Max Pohlman, age 9
Izzy Momo
by Brandon Khouli, age 7
