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Nick Creech – Why I Write

Nick Creech, one of our popular writers for older children and young adults, has several longer length books on our site. His book A Way with Dragons (formerly Here Be Dragons) is in our top 10 list and has been for some time with over 500,000 downloads. Here’s what Nick has to say about why …

Sam Dragon – MG humour, a fairytale about being different

Sam Dragon was a little different. for a start, he detested eating maidens, no matter how many times he was punished for it he plainly refused. It was against his principals. (Any young and newly converted vegetarians or vegans with staunch traditionalist parents, Sam’s out there with sympathy for your situation as am I! Vegetarians …

Little Brother – Award winning young adult sci-fi

Little Brother is a young adult sci-fi novel by popular author Cory Doctorow. The book features a teenage hacker and his group of friends as they navigate San Francisco after a terrorist attack, ending up accused of involvement they rally social support in the fight against civil infringements and abuse of political authority. The topics …

Annabella Crabtree Hostage, Volume 3

Annabella Crabtree Hostage – Iblis, Prince of Darkness in the Other World, is demanding Annabella Crabtree be returned to his control. In an attempt to avoid a war between the Dark and the Light, she is betrayed and spirited to France in the time of Caesar’s Gallic wars where she must survive, dependent only on …

Annabella Crabtree: Hunter, Volume 2

Annabella Crabtree and the djinni, Basil, are reunited when Hassan-i Sabbāh escapes imprisonment in the boiling mud of a Baluchistan volcano and embarks on a campaign of vengeance. To protect those closest to her, Annabella must return to the past to deal with him and finds herself embroiled in the Crusades. This is the second …

Galiconia

Galiconia – Mac has only ever wanted one thing: to defy the forces of gravity and to fly free, as though a bird in his own right. A select few, perhaps one in ten million of the billions of people in the Hyades, have the synapses to harness the anti-gravity properties of thormalium, the element …

Annabella Crabtree : Hunted

Annabella Crabtree hunted : Hunted – The witching hour came and went and still the storm that lowered over Castle Alamut refused to break… The first line from a book by a popular author who also writes about Dragons amongst other things. Volume 1 in the epic Annabella Trilogy. This book is for “Young Adults” …

The Blob, The Frog, The Dog, and The Girl

The Blob, The Frog, The Dog, and The Girl – A long lonely summer looms for a new girl on an island with her busy mother. Enter two boys and their huge dog, a rival group of bullies, and a viking ship, and things look up. Three children learn about friendship, courage, and working together …

Beekle Henry

Beekle Henry – His adventures along with his friends, A fascinating tales with all sorts of interesting facts found along the way. By: Nick Creech Sample Page from The Book: Beekle Henry was lazing away the morning in his hammock. It was a particularly comfortable hammock made from best spider web slung between two …

Three-P

Three-P – an unsuspecting fairy penguin adventurer, musketeer, and hero. Three-P fights peer pressure and prejudice, but follows his heart and in doing so learns the value of friendship, and how to be a real hero. By: Nick Creech Sample Page from Three-P: The word flew around Mickleburrow like a school of pilchards exploding before a hungry …

A Way with Dragons – Historical Welsh Fiction

A Way With Dragons features the adventures of Welsh twins Cash and Cary and a small dragon. Recruited by the small dragon for an important task the twins travel back to the time of Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. An exciting fantasy adventure featuring Welsh and folk history and a few dragons. Author: Nick Creech Sample Text …

For The Win – YA sci-fi novel text

For The Win is Cory Doctorow’s second young adult sci-fi novel, this is the read online text version of it Cory Doctorow doctorow@craphound.com Last updated Nov 20, 2012 READ THIS FIRST This book is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. That means: You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit …

Magic Sucks – Read Online

Magic Sucks chapter book an FKB classic story by Susha Golomb. This is the read online text version only. Copyright 2016 Susha Golomb Free Kids Books – Online Edition Magic Sucks Table of Contents THE FAIRY GIFTS – BOOK 1 MAGIC SUCKS PROLOGUE – Tefnut Remembers PART I THE FIRST JOURNEY Chapter 1 – Get …