Spellbound River Press is dedicated to publishing exceptional middle-grade books for young readers. Our initial list includes successfully self-published books that deserve a wider audience as well as continuing installments of traditionally-published series that ended too soon.
Marcus Mender
Book #2 in the Magic Mayhem series by Deanna Roy.
More info →Genie’s Gift
Can a shy girl overcome great dangers to reach the genie who could change her life? The Genie’s Gift is a playful action fantasy that draws on The Arabian Nights stories.
More info →The Amorphous Assassin
Thirteen-year-old Tyler Sato has lied, cheated, and scammed his way into the Galaxy Games. Now, on the eve of the galaxy-spanning sports tournament, Tyler's past is catching up with a vengeance! Earth's team of international all-stars is at each other's throats. A shadowy conspiracy is on the move. And a shape-shifting alien assassin has Tyler in his sights. Can Tyler step up his game to become the leader Earth needs? Or will the world finally discover that Tyler isn't quite the hero that everyone believes? THE AMORPHOUS ASSASSIN launches an epic new story arc within author Greg R. Fishbone's Galaxy Games series.
More info →The Sweet Spot
When thirteen-year-old Sam Barrette’s baseball coach tells her that her attitude’s holding her back, she wants to hit him in the head with a line drive. Why shouldn’t she have an attitude? As the only girl playing in the 13U league, she’s had to listen to boys and people in the stands screaming things like “Go play softball,” all season, just because she’s a girl. Her coach barely lets her play, even though she’s one of the best hitters on the team.
More info →Operation Golden Llama
The first book in the Cousins in Action series by Sam Bond. Dumped at their eccentric Grandma’s, Cagney, Olivia, Aidan, Lissy and Tess are convinced they’re in for a boring summer. But when Grandma gets a series of mysterious phone calls and a highly unlikely pet sitter arrives, the cousins find themselves jetting off to Peru, where their adventures have only just begun.
More info →Jinnie Wishmaker
Book #1 in the Magic Mayhem series by Deanna Roy. Jinnie Wishmaker can grant any living thing its one true wish. But somehow, the wishes always have a mind of their own.
More info →The Ghost Miner’s Treasure
In The Ghost Miner’s Treasure, Book 4 of the Haunted series by Chris Eboch, Jon and Tania travel with the ghost hunter TV show to the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, where the ghost of an old miner is still looking for his lost mine. The siblings want to help him move on, but first they’ll have to find the mine.
More info →The Knight in the Shadows
n The Knight in the Shadows, Book 3 of the Haunted series, a Renaissance French squire protects a sword on display in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. How can Jon and Tania help him, when they can’t even speak his language?
More info →The Riverboat Phantom
The Riverboat Phantom, Book 2 in the Haunted series, features a steamboat pilot still trying to prevent a long-ago disaster. Will Jon and Tania have to stage a new disaster to help him move on?
More info →The Ghost on the Stairs
While filming at an old hotel in Colorado, Jon and Tania find themselves trapped in a ghostly love story that happened more than a century ago. Local legend has it that a ghost bride still wanders the hotel, waiting for her lost husband. Can this fearless brother-sister duo reunite a newlywed couple — and put these ghosts to rest at last?
More info →The Challengers
Things are looking up for Tyler Sato (literally!) as he and his friends scan the night sky for a star named for him by his Tokyo cousins in honor of his eleventh birthday. Ordinary stars tend to stay in one place, but Ty’s seems to be streaking directly toward Earth at an alarming rate. Soon the whole world is talking about TY SATO, the doomsday asteroid, and life is turned upside down for Ty Sato, the boy, who would rather be playing hoops in his best friend’s driveway.
Meanwhile, aboard a silver spaceship heading for Earth, M’Frozza, a girl with three eyes and five nose holes, is on a secret mission. M’Frozza is the captain of planet Mrendaria’s Galaxy Games team, and she is desperate to save her world from a dishonorable performance in the biggest sporting event in the universe.
What will happen when Ty meets M’Frozza? Get ready for the most important event in human history—it’ll be off the backboard, around the rim, and out of this world!
More info →Operation Tiger Paw
The second book in the Cousins in Action series by Sam Bond.
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