McKinney Library Kid's Catalog

In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.

Amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, solves several mysteries with the aid of his friend, Dr. John Watson.

Presents a collection of more than thirty stories and legends from a variety of sources about the sun and summertime. Una colección de más de 30 cuentos y leyendas organizadas en las siguientes categorías: sol y estrellas, a pleno sol, noches de verano, flores y frutos, sol y otros lugares, vientos y mareas.

A collection of six short stories in a variety of genres and settings, all featuring ice cream.

Publisher Annotation: An essential, highly relatable collection of short fiction and poems around the topic of menstruation, written exclusively by authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color.

Publisher Annotation: A boyband fandom becomes a conduit to coming out. A former bully becomes a first-kiss prospect. One nonbinary kid searches for an inclusive athletic community after quitting gymnastics. Another nonbinary kid, who happens to be a pirate, makes a wish that comes true--but not how they thought it would. A tween girl navigates a crush on her friend's mom. A young witch turns herself into a puppy to win over a new neighbor. A trans...

This inspired collection of short stories is based on the original illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg in his esteemed and mysterious 'Mysteries of Harris Burdick,' originally published in 1984, and features many remarkable, best selling authors in the worlds of both adult and children's literature.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.