Very Short Reads

Here are some of my favorite very short reads, all under 300 pages.

01 - The girl who sailed the stars (aka The Girl, the Cat & the Navigator) by Matilda Woods with illustrations by Anuska Allepuz > link
Page count: 272
What's it about: stars, magical creatures, the sea, travel
Favorite passage: "Oona stared up at the lonely moon. She knew what she had to do. Forget feeling the North in the tips of her toes. She was going to feel it all around. She wasn't going south, no matter what anyone said. She was going to go north, just like she'd always dreamed.
    It was a big decision: four whole months at sea. It would be dangerous and wet. It would be cold and windy. And maybe she would fall overboard and drown. But it would, without a doubt, be an adventure, and she had always wanted to go on one of them."

02 - The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel by Natasha Lowe > link
Page count: 288
What's it about: magic, family, witch school, inventions
Favorite passage: "...Don't you get the shivers just looking at all that space, wondering what's up there? I want to invent a broomstick to fly to the moon."

03 - The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson > link
Page count: 231
What's it about: magic kingdoms, magic, hags/witches, princes, family
Favorite passage: "It wasn't him they'd come to see; he'd been an idiot. When he'd seen them standing there he'd had such a feeling of...homecoming, as though at last the years of drudgery were over. It was like that dream he had sometimes - the dream with the sea in it, and soft green turf and someone whose face he couldn't see clearly, but who he knew wanted him."

04 - The ordinary princess by M.M. Kaye > link
Page count: 112
What's it about: princesses, maids, kings, self-love, true love
Favorite passage: “...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”

05 - Poison by Bridget Zinn > link
Page count: 280
What's it about: princesses, friendship, murder, potions, love, magic
Favorite passage: "It was the most ridiculous thing in the world: Kyra, would-be assassin and master potioner, had resorted to hunting down her prey — her best friend the princess — with a piglet."

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