K L Pickett: 3 books

Twelve-year-old Katie does not want to spend her life laying hands on sick people to heal them as her grandmother has done for years. She doesn’t want the responsibility. When Granny says, “Katie, someday you’ll have the gift,” Katie hopes she’s wrong. When younger, she’d thought...

Ten-year-old Pippy wants a horse more than anything in the world. Plan One, begging her mom for one, doesn’t work. Plan Two, performing her own made-up magic spell, conjures up a tiny glass horse statue. Pippy’s disappointed; she wants a real horse. But then she thinks: Maybe it’s magic! If...

Seventh-grader Dustin Cotter dreams of being the first human to make contact with an alien species from outer space. So when he discovers that the meteorite he watched crash-landing is really a miniature spacecraft, he’s determined to capture it.But first a dog grabs it. A dog that happens...