* Parents or grandparents looking for a thoughtful

She has talent in spades and an abuelo whose tough-love coaching and lessons about “strength and honor” have made her the star of the Overlords

and an adorable hero who rises to the challenge and happens to be a goblin

and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives

Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief Yao Emei * Parents or grandparents lookingFrom New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a tale of low fantasy and high mischief. No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep stealing, henhouse raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in cowardly and lazy too for good measure. But goblins don't go around killing