New Releases by Jackie French Koller

Darek, Zantor, and their friends must save their village in this sixth and final book in the fantastical Dragonling chapter book series! Darek and his beloved dragonling, Zantor, return triumphant to their village from the Mountains of Krad. But when they arrive, they learn things have taken a turn for the worse and their village is now ruled by a ruthless tyrant. To save their home, Darek and Zantor must team up with their friends and family in a fantastical struggle to defend their home—that may just change the world as they know it.

Darek must rescue Zantor and Pola from the dangerous mists of Krad in this fifth book in the fantastical Dragonling chapter book series! When Darek’s beloved dragonling, Zantor, and Darek’s best friend, Pola, disappear into the mists of Krad, everyone assumes they’re gone for good. But Darek just knows that Zantor and Pola are alive. He can hear the dragonling’s cries for help, deep inside his own head. And much to his surprise, Rowena—the cause of all the trouble—hears them, too. Together Darek and Rowena sneak into Krad to rescue their friends. But they soon find that Krad is even more dangerous than they’d feared. So dangerous that it may be impossible to save anyone, even themselves…

Darek and Zantor work to convince everyone that dragons and humans can get along in this second book in the fantastical Dragonling chapter book series! Ever since Darek saved Zantor the dragonling, they’ve been inseparable. Darek is the only family Zantor has ever known. But now Darek is bringing Zantor home from the Valley of the Dragons, and the villagers are up in arms! He and his brother Clep are called traitors. Their best friends are turning against them. Even Darek’s father has been threatened for allowing the enemy in their midst. How can Darek prove that dragons are good neighbors to the villagers?

A child describes the bouncing, sliding, wiggling, running, splashing, reading, snuggling, and more that fills the day from sun up to bedtime.

One hot summer day, four bored children start a watermelon seed-spitting battle that soon spreads throughout their town.

Princess Arenelle, a promising young Witch, undertakes the quest to become the new Apprentice Keeper.

The fearsome knight Horace tries to prove to his niece that he is as good as his brother, the King, while all she really wants is someone to help her stop missing her father.

When Peter feels he cannot put up with his baby sister Emily any longer, he puts her in his wagon and goes around the block to see if any of the neighbors want to buy her.

Howard and the monster under his bed decide on a plan to convince their mothers that both of them have reason to be afraid after dark.

In the third title about this pair of friends, Mole and Shrew are short of cash, so they head into the working world with hysterical results. Illustrations.

When a mysterious bag lady hands Alec a strange coin and tells him it will grant him one wish, Alec thinks she''s crazy. But then, in a fit of anger, Alec wishes his little brother Stevie had never been born, and Stevie disappears! If I Had One Wish … was an American Library Association Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Readers and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.

When his Labrador retriever survives a bear-mauling on Christmas Eve, Matt is convinced that her recovery is a miracle sent by his mother from heaven.

Adventurous monkeys have a series of mishaps and escapades involving a bike, a canoe, a restaurant, and a hotel.

While running from the truth to escape painful memories of losing his eye, seventeen-year-old Luke gets himself into a series of dangerous situations.

Caring for her two younger siblings after their unreliable mother abandons them, fifteen-year-old Anna discovers the difficulties of trying to be a parent.

Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother''s Dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons.

Sixteen-year-old Rebekah joins her missionary father in the New World in the 1630s and, after being introduced to Indian culture, begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all

When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.

Mole commits a comic blunder regarding a fancy ball, but his good friend Shrew sticks by him.