Kimberly Kinrade: 6 books

Too scared to stand up to the bullies or tell her teachers, 9-year-old Maddie decides she's never going to school again. Too bad her parents don't agree. Depressed and feeling hopeless, she doesn't expect to discover the secret door to her magical world in an old box in her bedroom. Only Maddie...

Lexie is very unhappy this Valentine's Day. She can't get anything right, and her hearts all look horrible. In fact, everyone at school seems to be in an extra grumpy mood. When she and her sisters consult her magic Mirror of Ice to find out what's going on, they are transported...

...I scrunched up my eyes in an attempt to see. "Why do you sound like you're in another room? You're going the wrong way. You have to walk to us." The darkness was so complete, like a black room with no light. "Okay, on three, we're all going to scream. Someone will hear us....

We pulled, and the rope tightened, wrapping around Santa's feet and yanking him upside down to hang from our tree. "What on earth?" He shook and swung and tried to pull himself up, but his belly kept getting in the way. If we hadn't been so desperate, I would have laughed. When...

...Each time I put my foot down, it sank deeper into trash. The crunch and grind of it all sounded like monsters coming to eat me. "Oh my goodness!" The crunching and grinding got louder. So loud, I knew it couldn't be just us. My hands shook and my feet stopped working right....

...A large presence settled behind me. I knew without turning around what I would find, but still I turned.... ...and faced the Dragon. About Bella World Bella is tired of getting blamed every time her sisters lose something. It's not her fault they misplaced something important,...