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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Emily Martha Sorensen
Magic and mischief are here! A collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories featuring dragons, aliens, humor, and a few characters with magic who just can’t stay out of…
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Rose really wants her son to have more playmates, but the fourth egg hasn’t hatched yet. Then she learns that the newest egg has parents … who haven’t stepped forward…
As their wedding day fast approaches, Rose’s nerves hit their peak. More and more, she finds herself drawn to the other dragon eggs, pleading with them to hatch so that…
Rose didn’t count on becoming a mother to a brand new baby dragon egg. Millions of years after dragons have gone extinct, there’s an egg that seems to be unexpectedly…
Virgil didn’t mean to sneeze and burn down the Christmas tree. But it was hot, and bright, and pretty!
His parents, Rose and Henry, are exasperated. Raising a baby dragon…
When Rose decided to correct an arrogant woman about her wrongheaded belief that dragons were not intelligent, it resulted in an unexpected complication: now that woman wants a dragon egg…
There’s a new dragon visiting from Chicago, and she’s green, like Virgil! Unfortunately, this might cause a few small problems nobody anticipated. As well as a few revelations and surprises…
When Cassie finds a magic pair of glasses that allow her to see fairies, she has to figure out where they came from … and what the fairies want her…
Daisy wanted to be able to see fairies. But when she comes across an old compass, she gains the ability to sense them magnetically instead.
Amanda doesn’t think she’s slow, but everyone else seems to. When she finds a pair of magic earmuffs that allow her to hear fairies, everything changes.
When Maricela’s grandmother comes to stay, she finds a magic barometer that gives her the sense of fairy pressure. But more might be going on than she realizes.
Bianca thinks she has the worst fairy sense ever. But when she decides to brave her task, she starts to learn the incredible power of itch.
Sunflower’s always been good at everything. But her brand new gymnastics slippers are throwing everything off, because they give her the sense of proprioception.
When Georgina finds a magical lunchbox, she thinks she’s going to get the sense of fairy taste! But instead, she gets hunger.
When Viola sprains her ankle, she thinks it’s going to be a terrible week. But then she gets an icepack that gives her the sense of fairy temperature.
Eileen comes from a long line of people who’ve had fairy senses. So when she gets a magic stopwatch that gives her the sense of chronoception, she knows exactly what…
Li Mei doesn’t like attention. But she’s about to get it, because her brand new toothbrush gives her the sense of fairy taste.
Hayley is a klutz, and has no sense of direction. When she gets terribly lost, she stumbles into a fairy crown that gives her the sense of intuition … and…
First Aylia’s parents force her to go to college in our world. Then they tell her she has to hide her past. Yeah, right! A Magical Roommate is a G-rated…
Tabby, Tabby, burning bright ‘Cause he swallowed my flashlight. What imbecile hand or eye Left it out for him to try? A rhyming picture book with watercolor illustrations about a…
The villains are dead. The world is at peace. And now the magical girls want to conquer it.
Chronos has the power to see the future, and that’s the future…
Chronos doesn’t want to be a villain. She also doesn’t want a houseguest. Unfortunately for her, Kendra is insisting on both, and the former magical girl will not listen to…
When Kendra defected to villainy, she left her friends and family baffled. Her best friend has no clue where the former magical girl is or what she’s doing, but she’s…
If Rhea’s sister is a traitor, she knows what she has to do. She heads to the lair ready to do what’s necessary … and clueless Tiffany lets her in.
…
Kendra has her first assignment: to stop a bully at a school for magical girls. But she underestimates the language barrier, she overestimates her own competence at villainy, and she’s…
Florence is supposed to recruit three magical girls to help her create something that will help the entire world. That should be easy, right?
Well … one of them wants…
Kendra and her friends decide to join a magical girl team competition. They’ll definitely win, right? They’re the greatest team there.
Nope.
They lose.
But there’s something odd about the…
Mildred doesn’t like black magic. But her mother was once valedictorian of Black Magic Academy, so her aunts insist she needs to follow in her footsteps and become one too…
A collection of short stories filled with humor and fresh ideas. Watch an alien child call the White House while trying to reach McDonald’s, a kleptomaniac princess disrupt a certain…
As the daughter of a landowner, Raneh lives in a world of clearly defined roles and rules. She’s supposed to get married, gain status, become a landowner herself, and definitely…
Life hasn’t suddenly become easy because Raneh’s now the Keeper. Her life has been interrupted, and she struggles to pick up the pieces. Teaching it will be the work of…
Tevan loves having a talent for magic. He never took the oath, yet he can do things the magicians around him can’t even dream of. As a vassal, that’s a…
Henina tends to irritate people. She can’t help it - she’s bad at shutting her mouth. So when a prophecy is made that someone will stop the war, she figures…
Lisette was expecting to be a werehawk. Now she’s a werevulture.
Bad guys beware. The werevulture’s in town.
She has a memory like a steel trap! Okay, a sieve. Dotty is a 63-year-old weredodo who loves cozy mysteries. So naturally, when her house gets robbed, she has to…
Lucy didn’t want to be cursed, but she doesn’t have much choice. She’s just inherited that burden from her aunt, and it’s a big one. Cursed to die within twenty…
Xander is just Lucy’s type. He’s flirty, he’s funny, he’s cute, and he’s just a bit crazy. He knows all about her curse, he knows what makes it deadly, and…
Lucy has to keep on dating loads of guys to keep the curse from getting her, but she doesn’t want a bunch of guys. She just wants Pablo. Even if…
Rulisa doesn’t want to be a good witch. She wants to be a bad witch. But after her second expulsion from a powerful magical school, her father sends her packing…
Eleven short stories. Thirteen drabbles. Six series. Includes short stories set in the worlds of Black Magic Academy, The Keeper and the Rulership, Fairy Eyeglasses, Dragon’s Egg, Trials of a…
Kendra’s worst nightmare is now a reality. Someone else is taking her place, the Magical Girl Union exists, and Chronos won’t tell her where it is or who’s behind it…
Kendra doesn’t want her best friend to make the same mistake she did. So she drags her best friend to meet Chronos and learn about the future. That should fix…
Stealing other people’s luck isn’t a good thing, so Kendra goes to stop a magical girl who’s been doing that. Maybe attacking the magical girl with luck powers wasn’t such…
Alex has a deadly secret. He’s lived his whole life under the shadow of the Gemini curse, awaiting the time when it will twist his personality and then kill him…
