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"Cross Purposes" - an adventure/fantasy/historical novel by Stephen Hayes. Kids get carried off to a strange country, encounter monks, monsters and more.
books2read.com/u/mZnXk2
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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?
In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.
Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?
In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.
Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?
In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.
Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?
In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.
Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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#PennedPossibilities 1014 If it came down to it, would your SC choose to protect the MC in a dangerous situation?
In "Cross Purposes" Janet protects Jeffery (who has a crush on her) from Mongolian archers riding past on horseback using him for target practice.
Only she's more a co-MC than an SC.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
#childrensbooks #MGlit #kidlit #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity
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"Cross Purposes" -- an adventure/fantasy/historical novel about four kids whose dream holiday turns into a nightmare beyond their wildest dreams.
https://books2read.com/u/mZnXk2
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Four children off on a seaside holiday suddenly get carted away to a place that just just about as far from the sea as you can get. They encounter people of different languages and customs, creatures from mythology and folklore, and get caught up in the start of a war. They wonder if they'll ever get home.
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2022/10/cross-purposes-new-novel.html
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Historical Fiction for Young Readers: Find great historical fiction for ages 7 to 12 and up!
Bring history alive for kids, with my mystery in ancient Egypt & Mayan drama (used in many classrooms) to books set in 450 BC in the Peruvian jungle, feudal Japan, the Civil War, & Toronto in 1919.
https://storyoriginapp.com/to/OK3PcpW
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#ScribesAndMakers 20 Mar: Self-promotion day. Shame optional.
I've written four fiction books and one non-fiction book. Three of the fiction books are for kids aged 9-99, and one is for adults. Details here:
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Bookshop.org Discount Alert! Middle Grade Novels by Chris Eboch 15% OFF print book list prices with code BSO15 at checkout, until April 1. Every Bookshop.org purchase supports local, independent bookstores. Happy reading!
Kirkus Reviews said of The Well of Sacrifice, “The novel shines not only for a faithful recreation of an unfamiliar, ancient world, but also for the introduction of a brave, likable and determined heroine.”
https://bookshop.org/lists/middle-grade-novels-by-chris-eboch
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Bookshop.org Discount Alert! Shop my list of Middle Grade Novels by Chris Eboch for your enjoyment. Take 15% OFF* these select titles when you enter BSO15 at checkout, valid until April 1, 2026. *Discount off list prices, and excludes Ebooks. Bookshop.org is a better way to buy books online. Every purchase on Bookshop.org supports local, independent bookstores. Happy reading!
https://bookshop.org/lists/middle-grade-novels-by-chris-eboch
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from underground: Cross Purposes: A children's adventure/fantasy/historical novel
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2022/10/cross-purposes-new-novel.html
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#WordWeavers 5/3: What's the most supportive/uplifting thing you’ve heard related to writing?
A detailed critique of my children's historical/fantasy/adventure novel "Of Wheels and Witches" from a blind university lecturer in literature, which included the following:
Chapter 4
Evocative landscape descriptions, especially early in the chapter again evoke something of the Pastorale.
Intertwining the foreboding shadow of the wheel and evil with the children’s coming to know the lot of black people in South Africa at that time, together with Apartheid police tactics and anti-Apartheid activity, is beautifully done, so that, while the reader unfamiliar with such things reads the story, he necessarily also learns much. This is a good example of my conclusion that history is best taught through the stories of the people who lived in it, whether they be fictional or no.Chapter 5
I certainly did not expect the chapter to develop as it does. Splendid!
Excellent descriptions of both church services and, especially, of the children’s tea and the minister from Johannesburg’s message to Catherine. That episode is well-executed, because it does not force the plot, but flows naturally and, given the rest of the chapter, inevitably and organically inescapably. The narration of what happens to the children on their way home, Jeffery falling into the river and rescuing Catherine, Janet’s struggles to get help, as well as the conclusion in the hut, are likewise naturally executed.Chapter 6
Another splendid piece of storytelling and, over it all, the epoch quickened by the little details, the children’s very human experiences the prejudices and thought processes of at least some in that time represented by the contrast between Mr. Montgomery and Mrs Sanderson. -
"The Enchanted Grove" -- an adventure/fantasy/historical novel for kids aged 9-99. Set in the picturesque Southern Drakensberg during the apartheid era of South Africa, kids face bullies, hostile cops and witches.
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-enchanted-grove.html
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"The Enchanted Grove", an adventure-fantasy novel for kids aged 9-99 with Orthodox Christian and African themes, by Stephen Hayes. Get your ebook copies here:
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Orthodox Christian parents: have your children ever read, or wished they could read, children's adventure stories with Orthodox characters? They might enjoy "Cross Purposes" by Stephen Hayes
books2read.com/u/mZnXk2
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Notes from underground: Over sea, under stone, the first book of "The Dark is Rising" sequence
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2021/05/over-sea-under-stone.html?spref=tw
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"The Enchanted Grove", an adventure-fantasy novel for kids aged 9-99, by Stephen Hayes. Get your paperback copies here, or ask your local bookshop to order & stock it:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-hayes/the-enchanted-grove/paperback/product-zzv2ez.html
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"The Enchanted Grove", an adventure-fantasy novel for kids aged 9-99, by Stephen Hayes. Get your ebook copies here:
https://books2read.com/u/3ky6gg
#childrensbooks #kidlit #MGlit #bookstodon -
A dead king, a power-hungry high priest, a deep limestone pit used for human sacrifice … and only one young girl brave enough to fight the evil that pervades her city.
“The novel shines not only for a faithful recreation of an unfamiliar, ancient world, but also for the introduction of a brave, likable and determined heroine.” – Kirkus Reviewshttps://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/0b4ce802-9f5f-11ea-bff8-df0f333bb2f5
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Four children go on holiday to the seaside, but end up in mountains they could never have imagined. Read about it in "Cross Purposes" by Stephen Hayes.
https://books2read.com/u/mZnXk2
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Expect the unexpected -- four kids on holiday are whisked off on adventure none of them could have imagined: "Cross Purposes" by Stephen Hayes
https://books2read.com/u/mZnXk2
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Looking for a Christmas gift for a kid aged 9-12 who likes reading?
They might enjoy "The Enchanted Grove" -- see here:
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-enchanted-grove.html
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Looking for a Christmas gift for a kid aged 9-12 who likes reading?
They might enjoy "The Enchanted Grove" -- see here:
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-enchanted-grove.html
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Three kids looking forward to a carefree horse-riding holiday in the Drakensberg encounter bullies, poachers, the apartheid regime's dreaded Security Police, and then a witch: "The Enchanted Grove" by Stephen Hayes at #smashwords
https://smashwords.com/books/1072405
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#WordWeavers day 28: Are your MCs more likely to fight, flee, or talk their way out of trouble?
My MCs are mostly kids, and their antagonists are mostly adults, so they are more likely to flee or hide.
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Four children from diverse backgrounds arrive unexpectedly in a strange place (it isn't Narnia, but it's just as dangerous) with only the clothes they are wearing.
https://books2read.com/u/m2d0q7
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Ebook edition of "The Enchanted Grove", a kids' adventure/fantasy story by Stephen Hayes set in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa
https://books2read.com/u/31lVDW #kidlit #mglit #ChildrensBooks #books #bookstodon -
@SorinaHiggins
(Answer copied from exTwitter because I saw your question there first -- algorithms do have their uses)I don't really hate anything about Lewis's writing, though I like some of his books less than others. For example I found "The Horse and his Boy" too moralistic for my taste. My review here:
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-horse-and-his-boy.html
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#PennedPossibilities 770 — What is your MC’s greatest weakness, and do other the characters know what it is?
In my first series of children's books, Jeffery Davidson (aged 11) is inclined to lapse into self-pity, and imagine that his friends don't like him. As the series progresses he begins to grow out of this, though not completely.
Catherine Kopirovsky, a younger girl who becomes his friend when they are on a farm holiday together, empathises with him, and in some ways pities him,but is not really aware of his self-pity, because she doesn't experience it herself. Irene Sanderson, the woman on whose farm the children stay, suspects it, and tries gently to bring Jeffery out of it.
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Inklings Scholar Interview: Stephen Hayes
https://fellowdustmag.com/2025/01/08/inklings-scholar-interview-stephen-hayes/
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Voice recognition mistake of the day:
“This is a wonderfully woven tail with a profound surprise at the end."
From a review I was trying to quote of The Genie’s Gift: Shy, thirteen-year-old Anise resolves to find the Genie Shakayak and claim the Gift of Sweet Speech, but the journey is full of challenges, both ordinary and magical.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0615905374/
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South African kids in a time-travel adventure: "Cross Purposes" by Stephen Hayes - FREE at #smashwords till the end of July
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1167919
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Number of free copies of my fantasy/adventure books taken in 1st 3 weeks of the @Smashwords sale (only 10 days left)
43 The Year of the Dragon (adult)
11 The Enchanted Grove (kids)
10 Cross Purposes (kids)the sale continues:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1072405
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Perhaps your son might enjoy this one too -- it's free till the end of July.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/1072405
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#PennedPossibilities 561
Give us your thoughts on the genre of your WIP. Do you love it, is there not enough stories written within it, are you an avid reader of the genre, etc.?The broad genre of my #WIP is overpopulated, but I write because I would like to see more of the linds of stories I like, and there are not enough of these -- intrusive fantasy.
The masters of the genre, the one's whose stories I like best and that I would like to see more of, are Charles Williams and Alan Garner, and C.S. Lewis's "That Hideous Strength".
Any of the novels of Charles Williams are examples, and early Alan Garner -- "Elidor", "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Moon of Gomrath". If you liked more than one of those, you might like my books too, and it seems that the paperback edition of my kids' novel "The Enchanted Grove" is going cheap on Amazon right now.
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"Cross Purposes" a middle-grade historical novel for all ages, where children encounter mythical monsters, mystical monks, flying reindeer and more
https://books2read.com/u/m2d0q7
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#SnowAngels check out the cover for Thelma Bee and the Darkwood Queen by Erin Petti! Coming soon!
#comingsoon #ThelmaBeeSeries #SnowyWingsPub #coverreveal #middlegradebooks #MGlit
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#SnowAngels check out the cover for Thelma Bee and the Darkwood Queen by Erin Petti! Coming soon!
#comingsoon #ThelmaBeeSeries #SnowyWingsPub #coverreveal #middlegradebooks #MGlit
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#SnowAngels check out the cover for Thelma Bee and the Darkwood Queen by Erin Petti! Coming soon!
#comingsoon #ThelmaBeeSeries #SnowyWingsPub #coverreveal #middlegradebooks #MGlit
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#SnowAngels check out the cover for Thelma Bee and the Darkwood Queen by Erin Petti! Coming soon!
#comingsoon #ThelmaBeeSeries #SnowyWingsPub #coverreveal #middlegradebooks #MGlit
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In celebration of #Transgender Awareness Week, but good for reading all year long, here are reviews of some of my favorite picture, middle grade, and grown-up books from 2024 that feature #trans youth or trans parents (and sometimes both). #QueerKidLit #KidLit #MGlit https://mombian.com/2024/11/15/12-recent-books-featuring-transgender-youth-and-transgender-parents/
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Plenty of novels set along the Wild Atlantic Way to (re)discover.
Set in lovely west Cork: #TheGreenestWind ☘️County Cork’s sublime southerly shoreline is the place to discover one of the catalysts for the Revival. It’s also a good place to start a literary tour of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/sep/14/ireland-wild-atlantic-way-literary-tour
#CountyCork #WestCork #Ireland #Irland #WildAtlanticWay #Donegal #Galway #CountyClare #CountyLimerick #Literature #MGLit #YALit #MiddleGradeBooks #bookstodon #reading #books
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:coffee_mug: Bin dabei, ein Lesezeichen für #TheGreenestWind ☘️ zu entwerfen.
Die Vorderseite ist einfach: Ausschnitt des Covers.
Auf der Rückseite der Kurztext:📖 A touching, gently humorous story that explores themes of friendship, family, creativity – and the importance of aunts.
Doch welche Leserinnen-Zitate auswählen?
#EinerTüteGrünerWind #Autorinnenleben #Lesezeichen #Bookmark #Buchcover #Übersetzung #Translation #MGLit #YALit #MiddleGradeBooks #KidLit #bookstodon #books
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I guess I should update my pinned post to say that #MirrorOfWolves is officially out in the world now! 😃 :ds_crow: 🐺
When 12-year-old Ty learns of a mystical object that can tell him whether he truly is destined to save Arcania from the dark sorcerer Gideon Blackthorn, he is determined to track it down—no matter the cost. But when his quest takes a shocking turn will Ty still find the answers he needs, or will his relentless hunt for the truth jeopardize everything?
https://books2read.com/MirrorOfWolves
#MGLit #MiddleGradeReads #MiddleGradeFantasy #BooksForKids #IReadCanadian #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #Bookstodon #YOWbooks #KidLit #MGFantasy #FantasyBooks #FantasySeries #books #BookLover #bookworm #reading #bookish #MiddleGrade #MiddleGradeFiction #TheArcanium #TeamArcania
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I also adore this single of very strong bagpipe folk rock, quite a different style, but so full of energy and emotion, with equal measures of hope and despair rushing through. Great stuff to help my mind when I need the power, composed and performed by my favorite piper, Ross Ainsley: https://rossainslie.bandcamp.com/album/hope-in-the-chaos-single
(As a writer of #MGLit, this invariably plants action scenes in my mind!)
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I just posted my full rave review for Zohra Nabi's The Kingdom Over the Sea, which I adored: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5379505283
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Today I was invited to join my state's school library conference in April to sign books! It had been a long, intense day (not bad, though) with my day job, so having this recognition of myself as an author was very rewarding. I love school libraries (I volunteered once a week in my son's all through his elementary school years), so being with those wonderful book-lovers will be quite the dream!
#WritersLife #ChildrensAuthor #KidLit #MGLit #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritingCommunity
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I just got an email from a fan saying that Secret of the Shadow Beasts was "the best book I ever read."
So, so sweet. If your kid ever loved a book, know that it means a huge amount to authors to hear this.
#KidLit #MGLit #ChildrensLiterature #ChildrensBooks #AuthorsOfMastodon #KidLitAuthor