The people of Solvei’s village have a yearly festival that marks the end of the growing season and the beginning of the dark time. In this joyful celebration, the villagers dress as dragons that represent the things they fear. Solvei is too young to attend, but is so excited that she sneaks a peek on the night of the festival — and comes home with many different fears from the “dragons” that she saw there. Her mother explains that she has taken on ‘someone else’s dragon’ and then helps Solvei give the fears back so she can fall peacefully asleep.

This story is from the By Thistle By Thimble series.

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Autumn for Martin & Sylvia is filled with beautiful colors, yummy food, delightful festivals and apples, apples, apples! There are apples for eating, apples for baking pies, apples for saucing, and at the end of the season - apples for turning into cider. At their neighbor's annual Cider Pressing Party, brother and sister find more than just the usual revelry -- they get to hear stories from an old orchard man about Apple Tree magic and wonder.

This story is from the Martin & Sylvia More Adventures series.

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When Daddy suggests they paddle to "Luck Island" which was recently made into a public park, brother and sister are at once excited and filled with questions:  "does anyone live there?"  "what is on the island?"  "will there be pirate treasure?"  They find out that the island does indeed have treasure, but not at all what they were expecting...

This story is from the Martin & Sylvia More Adventures series!

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Martin and Sylvia get a book from the library about Yom Kippur, a very important Jewish festival day. Sylvia notices a page where a young boy is tossing a stone into a river. She learns that the boy had not told the truth, and so, as he tossed the stone into the water, he made it right with his family. Sylvia loves this idea. "Can we do this by our brook?" she asks, remembering an untruth she recently told. And so they do.

This story is from the Martin & Sylvia series!

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This story is all about the insidious nature of imagining what ‘could’ happen. Rumors, exaggerations, fearful stories and even simple wonderings have ‘Could Bees’ buzzing around in them. Luckily Mr. James, Denny’s kindergarten teacher, has a way of shooing those Could Bees away and allowing the truth of the matter to become clear.  

This story is from the Sparkle Sleepytime series.

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In a home for the elderly, two people meet. Amos is confined to a wheelchair and Catherine cannot speak. Though they have never been introduced before, they each recognize something familiar about the other, and Amos is determined to find out what it is. A photograph of his childhood home takes them to a time long ago when a powerful magic rose up and embraced them both, a magic that exists for them still.

This story is from the So Many Fairies series!

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In this story we are introduced to Dante and his single mother and how on the morning of his 12th birthday, he experiences something incredible: he is struck by lightning.  He is fine, but it begins a series of events that leads him to the neighborhood welcome wall where he receives a message that changes everything.

This story is from  "How to be Super - Book Three" from the The Violet Crown series.

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There was once a land far to the north that was held in healthy balance by a dragon and a unicorn. When the people of that land tried to control the dragon, the unicorn returned to the clouds and the people suddenly experienced what is was like manage pure power — the power of a dragon’s emotions. 

*This is a story about the big emotions that all children feel. It gives guidance on how to be both the dragon (emotional) and the unicorn (presence through the emotions) at the same time.*

This story is from the By Thistle By Thimble series.

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