Books like The Seven Chinese Sisters
By Kathy Tucker
For families who love stories about siblings who show up for each other, this one turns that loyalty into an adventure with real stakes. Warm, brave, and rooted in Chinese folk tradition, with just enough danger to feel exciting.
Every Christmas Eve, hungry trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her family's feast, but this year a boy traveling to Oslo with his pet ice bear might finally put a stop to it.
An imaginary friend waits and waits to be chosen by a child, and when no one picks him, he does the unimaginable — he leaves his island to find his perfect match himself.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
A boy afraid to go to school rides his grandfather's 1952 Ford time machine back through Big Papa's own frightening moments, hearing the same lesson each time: that's called being brave.
A witch famous throughout Russia for eating children is secretly a lonely old woman who longs for a grandchild, so she disguises herself as a village babushka to find one.
A young boy visits his nana in the city and finds it loud, crowded, and frightening — until she sews him a special cape that helps him feel brave enough to see it as wonderful.
A dragon, a princess, and a knight team up as flying doctors to heal sick animals across the kingdom, until the king locks the princess away for wanting more than a royal title.
The smallest of twelve little girls living in a Paris house under Miss Clavel's care, one fearless girl isn't scared of tigers or mice — until one frightening night changes everything.
An overworked girl named Blanche shows kindness to a strange old witch-woman and follows her into a world of two-headed cows and dancing rabbits, where talking eggs offer a choice that will test her heart.
A young hero condemned by a jealous king must earn the trust of the legendary winged horse Pegasus, then ride him into battle against the fire-breathing Chimera.
A zombie girl who loves to dance enrolls in a ballet class for human girls, but stage fright before her first recital makes her fear her moans and groans will scare everyone away.
A shy, fearful little creature named Toffle runs away from home rather than speak to anyone, watching Moomin Valley's lively cast celebrate from a distance until he finds the courage to reach out to another frightened soul, Miffle.
