Tag Archives: children

Auggie is a smart and funny young boy who knows he isn’t – in his words — “ordinary.” He sounds different. He looks different. And when other kids see him on the playground, they run. Born with major facial deformities, he has undergone 27 surgeries to improve his vision, hearing and breathing, but even those operations haven’t made him look ...

Bo is a first-century donkey full of spunk and energy – and he’s determined not to live his entire life inside a Nazareth grain mill. “We were meant for something greater than this,” he says. But … for what? Perhaps that bright star in the sky – a star he gazes at each night – is a sign. Perhaps it’s ...

It’s always difficult when you discover that your long-lost sister is the goddess of death. And when you learn that she can whip you in a fight, too? It’s even worse. But for Thor – the god of Thunder – it’s a new reality. It seems that Hela, the goddess of death, had been locked in a prison for Thor’s ...

Eric Marsh is a 40-something Arizona man who wants only one thing in life: to fight wildfires. But he doesn’t want to be a member of just any firefighting crew. He wants to be part of a “hotshot” team – those elite-and-talented 20-member crews that regularly risk their lives to stop wildfires in their tracks. Marsh trained months and months ...

History has gotten a bad rap among school-age children. So says Christian author Jenny L. Cote, who has written a series of historical fantasy/fiction books geared toward children that are hooking in adults, too. Cote’s latest book, “The Voice, The Revolution & The Key,” follows Patrick Henry from boyhood onward and spotlights the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. ...

As far back as Felicie can remember, she’s wanted to dance. Maybe that’s due to her birth mom, who placed her in an orphanage as a baby and left her with a ballerina-themed music box that Felicie always has treasured. It’s the only physical connection she has to her biological past. Felicie, though, isn’t content with just dreaming about dancing. ...

Squirrels are sort of like bees — always busy and always working. But there apparently are exceptions. Take, for example, the purple squirrel everyone calls Surly. He doesn’t work, and he has no intention of starting. That’s because he recently stumbled upon a lifetime stockpile of nuts in the basement of an abandoned building. Instead of climbing trees and crisscrossing ...

We’ve all heard about the perils of smartphones. They’re distracting, addictive and massive time-wasters. But no one has warned us about the dangers within smartphones. Enter The Emoji Movie (PG), which posits a busy digital city within your phone called Textopolis that’s populated by living, breathing emojis – those colorful icons used by the younger generation in place of words. ...

It’s never a good idea to make gorillas and chimpanzees angry. Just ask the kids who once teased that giant ape at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo in a now-viral video. That gorilla broke the safety glass! Of course, when apes acquire intelligence, speaking skills and then guns, it’s a whole different ballgame. That’s what we discover in War for the ...

Approximately 1,600 years ago, a Transformer visited Earth to hand humanity a secret weapon: a magical staff. It could have landed in anyone’s lands, but Merlin – yes that Merlin – was the first to acquire it. You see, up until this point in history Merlin really didn’t have any magic. He was simply an old drunk man who lied ...