My name is Bella, and I am a Pegasus. This is the story of how I meet my secret friend, Maximillion. You know what a Pegasus is, right? No? We are mythical creatures that look like horses with wings. We can fly, well, most of us can. Every day at school it starts. The other Pegasus don't like me. You see, I can't fly. It scares me. Lots of things scare me. I'm different, and they just don't like different. So, I run, but it is hard to run faster than a Pegasus can fly. One day after … [Read more...] about Secret Friends by Lynn Landes
Prezzemolina: The Little Parsley Girl by Sean Miller
What if fairies weren't all nice? Prezzemolina is a headstrong loner who feels cursed by her weird name, which her struggling single mom once joked was bequeathed to her by fairies. The morning before her twelfth birthday, Prezzemolina wakes to discover she's turned green. Horrified, she'd give anything to find out how she really got her name and escape an unwanted destiny. Her mother, who's hiding a dark secret, won't help her. But when a gaggle of mysterious gray-suited ladies offer to … [Read more...] about Prezzemolina: The Little Parsley Girl by Sean Miller
