The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary

Diverse and beautifully written, The Night Parade offers something wonderful to children's literature.

When I first saw the cover for The Night Parade I fell in love with it. After reading it, I had all those warm satisfied feeling you get from a story well told. A story filled with odd and strange creatures straight from Japanese folklore. Beautiful family traditions blended with dark enchantments, a young heroine, one that is a bit spoiled and self-centered, who ends up on a quest to right a curse she unleashes and along the way discovers the importance of family and honoring traditions.