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Chesapeake Chaos: Malevolence and Betrayal in Colonial Maryland
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 1650 Luke is in Maryland acting for Cromwell, and the colony’s proprietor Lord Baltimore, to assess the political situation. He becomes involved with a dysfunctional planter family and confronts several murders. His mission is complicated by planter rivalry, Indian wars, a Jesuit mission, a Puritan settlement and the incursion of a foreign power
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The Irish Fiasco: Stolen Silver in Seventeenth Century Ireland
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Luke’s murder investigation and search for stolen silver is complicated by intriguing Royalists, Irish rebels, influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings, murderous charcoal burners, and devious priests.
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The Brokenhearted Leprechaun Skip Into Trouble
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99A story about Skip, a young leprechaun with a broken heart who ventured out into the mortals’ world to save his missing parents he loved, who at the time were presumably held captive by mortals as slaves in or about Dublin Town. With only a smidgen of his grown-up leprechaunic powers, he manages to get himself drunk and a stowaway aboard a ship bound to America causing grave trouble onboard and almost sinking the ship. Until he gains his full powers as a leprechaun, he has many upon many mishaps. With his Emerald Irish luck, he manages to accomplish the risky task he set out on in saving both parents held by an evil mortal and brings them both back home to Ireland from America. In this adventure, he makes two mortal enemies of leprechauns who befriended him, very rich and happy by going out of their way to help him when he had placed himself in great danger, and who helped to save his loved ones.
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TRACKS
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99America – land of opportunity – nation of immigrants.
There is a special magic to America. It comes from the diversity of its people.
Like the characters in Tracks they come from all over – places like Guadalajara, Chapala, Chihuahua and Zacatecas, Mexico, Kirkaldy, Scotland, Barnmeen, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, disputed territory in the shadow of Mt. Ararat in the Caucasus Mountain Range, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Padua, Italy.
In 1919, when young Pedro Figueroa and Antonio Flores were refused seats to a travelling Shakespearian and Broadway show on a Saturday night in a saloon in Socorro, New Mexico, the lead actor stopped the show and took them aside. He offered these words of encouragement:
“You boys got to do the same things my folks did. Work hard. Raise a family. Make sure your kids get to school. Your day will come. This is a great country. Look, we got rid of slavery. Things get better all the time. Lives are lived in stages. Look at the caterpillar, crawling about, making little tracks
on the ground, and then it’s into a cocoon, and before long, it’s flying about, a butterfly.”
Tracks is a testament to the spirit of immigrants who come to America and make it a better place.
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Deacon’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Deacon’s Promise is an action thriller set in South Africa. In the midst of his own crisis of faith, Deacon Adelius receives a letter from a murdered friend, pleading with him to go to South Africa to rescue his children, whose lives are in danger from international drug smugglers led by a villain who is clever, ruthless, and beautiful. What his friend asks from the grave, Deacon must grant. To honor his dying friend’s request, he will have to rely on fellow members of a secret society of Gabrians, of close friends, of a retired colonel of the South African police, and of a unique trio of honorary uncles. Deacon becomes a hunter and hunted, as he weaves his way from Cape Town to Zimbabwe in a trail of violence in which he must call upon all his Chicago street smarts and previous military experience to survive and accomplish his mission.
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Adam
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Dr. Jeffrey Mongroll II created a monster out of his grief for the loss of his father. He vowed that he would create the perfect humanoid that would thrive in this world to take over humans as we know. It escaped into the waters of the Willamette River of Portland, Oregon. This creature if left to live will be the extinction of all mankind.
Detective Pete Rodrequiz, a transplant from the state of Texas, and his new partner, Johnny Rodrequiz, are given the assignment. Death occurred caused by this vicious illusive creature. The invisible killer baffled Pete. Why is there death of the innocent? Pete confronted Dr. Mongroll. There seemed no way to stop this killer until his team is given a break. The creature was seen. Pete requested help from Dr. Robis, a marine biologist, Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues, and the Navy SEAL Team.
The story will take you into an intense ride of fear–a fear of what lurks in the depth of the river.
In the depth of the Willamette, the creature attacks the Navy SEAL Team and the submersible with Dr. Robis and Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues. They stared on as the creature killed many of the SEAL Team.
Back on the deck of the coast guard ship, the battle for life between man and the creature and life as we know it began.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
GROUNDHOG WARS
Price range: $3.99 through $12.00Hi boys and girls, the story you are about to read is about weather. A little bit about voting, it tells us about the changing times we live in now. And how it was, when I was a kid, I have seen, all kind of weather I even travel to Virginia to watch hurricane Bertha, land onshore, ok I lie, I was on vacation, with my family, and got caught in it, and it was not fun. Storms can hurt you, and we have so much changing weather now. We don’t always hear new words but have been around a long time, like microburst, polar vortex, and global warming. Don’t they sound scary to you? Well, maybe not, but they are, thank you for taking the time to read my story’s I hope you enjoy them.
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The extra ordinary life of an extra ordinary bear
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Richard Henry was born, raised and educated in New York City. After his service in the United States Marine Corps, which included a tour in Viet Nam, he returned to New York where he worked as a teacher and coordinator of Alternative High Schools.
In 1983, he moved to Oklahoma to serve as the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution for four counties under the direction of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. In 1990, he moved to California and set up a training program for formally incarcerated youth. In 1992, he served as the “Economic and Business Development Coordinator” for military base closures.
He published his first book of poetry, “Beyond the Skull” in 1976. His novel, “Of Days Gone By” was first published in 1990, followed
by his second novel, “Short Timer” in 2002. His third book, “The Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Bear” was published in 2023.
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Just A Day dream
Price range: $3.99 through $15.50Two men from different culture once had everything one could ask for, were now broke and down. Murphy Wayne Bower was white and from the United States. From whiskey and women, Murphy knew he was at the bottom while setting in a cheap run down motel room in west Fort Worth that rented by the day, week or month. He was now living off of what he made working day labor, but his booze and cigarettes were costing him more than food and lodging. From a old Soldier of Fortune magazine his life was about to change. Omar Le Blanca was black and lived in Paris. First he lost his son to an American war, that’s when the hard, drinking and dope smoking started. Then if that was not enough he lost his wife and daughter they where in a bad car crash. That tore him apart sending him into a downward spiral. After seeing a young woman over dose and die by his side he realized he had to turn his life around. When they were brought together they found their lives depended on each other for what lay ahead. Murphy and his side kick Omar would get into some of the wildest adventures on and out of this world that required more than been buddy’s
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Treasure in the Sand
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Treasure in the Sand centers on Andrea Karr and the alarming series of death that being to happen after her husband James Wood’s fatal hit-and-run accident. Then Andrea receives a mysterious phone call from a stranger telling her to meet him on the beach. There, she discovers another dead body-her husband’s business colleague. Events unfurl rapidly as Andrea finds her shop vandalized and strangers suddenly speaking to her too boldly or throwing pop bottles at her, and her husband’s case detective’s peculiarly rude behavior. But most confusing of all, was when Andrea discovers her husband had been conducting some activities secretly from her, slowly to realize that she did not know him as she thought. Who really was James Woods, and why would anyone kill him? Andrea must find the answers before she becomes the next victim.
Treasures in the Sand packs up a tight coil of suspense that will spring a surprising conclusion for readers.
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Guardian’s Purpose
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99In a world of magic run by the Guardians of Life, Leviathan is a trained warrior, and meant to be a Guardian of the Gates, a protector of one of the seven Life Guardians. However, he finds that he feels misplaced in his duties. He was adopted into the warrior industry as a child and has known nothing else, but he feels as if it wasn’t where he belonged. Leviathan is shipped out from his post from the Kingdom of Sand to escort a woman known as Tharecia, a Guardian of Guidance and Peace, to the Guardian of Air. Soon, the two become entangled in an adventure of trying to discover who they are, as well as escape the violent pursuit of Leviathan’s name. He is a wanted criminal for something he did not do, but can he prove that he isn’t guilty as well as find his purpose with Tharecia in time?
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The Hunter: Southeast Asia
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an agent with a secret organization. He, along with Janine, his handler from the organization, and John, another agent who has a group of agents who always seem to be there to help with each mission. When Justin, Janine and John get together, you know something interesting is going to happen. Once again, the author takes them places where he’s traveled, giving the reader a chance to experience different places around the world. So, sit back and enjoy the latest adventure of The Hunter, as he takes on a mission in Southeast Asia.
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The Hunter: Portugal
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an agent with a secret organization. He, along with Janine, his handler from the organization, and John, another agent who has a group of agents who always seem to be there to help with each mission.
When Justin, Janine and John get together, you know something interesting is going to happen. Once again, the author takes them places where he’s traveled, giving the reader a chance to experience different places around the world.
So, sit back and enjoy the latest adventure of The Hunter, as he takes on a mission in Portugal.
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December Alliance
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Living in the country, Anne Olson, mother of two rambunctious youngsters, longs for the college days when she had plans of showcasing her talents. She confides in her old college friend that her life as a wife and mother is fine, but it’s not exactly what she had dreamed. When her life is turned upside-down, can she can seize the day?
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Stories Beyond Belief 2
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Stories Beyond Belief 2 comprises of a collection of stories designed to entertain you beginning with a legend about witches called the eight skulls of Teversham. This is followed by a vampire story with a difference as Siena travels through time to find a cure for her condition as a vampire, she faces both slayers and vampires who aim to prevent her doing this. The third story is the Harrington curse which will scare you away from mirrors for life, as a team of reporters and investigators seek answers to a curse bestowed on a family called the Harrisons. The fourth story is about a mental health nurse who is stalked by a youth who dresses like her only to cause major problems in her life. Our fifth story is understanding Jodie, a young girl who seeks her own identity after being bullied at school becoming a goth and joining a gang only to get into trouble. The final story is a lighthearted look at life as an angel as Faith is sent to earth to experience human life as a punishment for misdeeds in heaven.
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Stories Beyond Belief
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Stories Beyond Belief comprises of a collection of stories designed to entertain you beginning with a legend about witches called the eight skulls of Teversham. This is followed by a vampire story with a difference as Siena travels through time to find a cure for her condition as a vampire, she faces both slayers and vampires who aim to prevent her doing this. The third story is the Harrington curse which will scare you away from mirrors for life, as a team of reporters and investigators seek answers to a curse bestowed on a family called the Harrisons. The fourth story is about a mental health nurse who is stalked by a youth who dresses like her only to cause major problems in her life. Our fifth story is understanding Jodie, a young girl who seeks her own identity after being bullied at school becoming a goth and joining a gang only to get into trouble. The final story is a lighthearted look at life as an angel as Faith is sent to earth to experience human life as a punishment for misdeeds in heaven.
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The Diary of Lady X: Song of the Sea
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A yearning for love and adventure evolves into a search for the meaning of life. Tony had a passion for travel. What started out as an innocent pursuit for adventure took many turns: through love, tragedy, and disillusionment; and awakened his sleeping soul, setting him on a path of aspiration. THE DIARY OF LADY X, a novel in two volumes, is filled with actual accounts. The story has appeal for a wide ranging reader-ship who will find its characters to be engaging, and its story to be intriguing.
Who Was the Lady?
She was a small ship that had sailed
the biggest ocean in the world.
She was an innocent of twenty and
an actress.
She was a gifted dancer and artist
of the striptease.
She was a teenaged prostitute to keep
her family from poverty.
She was a mother and diplomat’s wife
in need of love.She was of the lowest caste and in love
with a man of the highest caste.She was a woman of dignity looking to
the education of others.
She was lying half naked in a gutter in Calcutta begging for money for her cremation.
She was a proud mother and still innocent.Most of all she was a lady.
Om Shanti
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Micropolis – The Adventure of Johnny Redblood
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Johnny Redblood and his best friend Ashley are two of the fun loving inhabitants of Micropolis – a city located within a cheerful ten-year-old girl named Sarah. Besides them, Micropolis is also filled with different types of single-celled creatures that live and work together and play a vital role in what Sarah does and how she feels.
As a red blood cell, Johnny Redblood has a very important job. He works for the Oxygen Delivery Service, bringing the valuable resource to the residents of the city. But his daily routine abruptly changes one day when Sarah steps on a spiky sea urchin, and Tyrus the Virus enters the lower valley. As the virus begins to cause serious damage, Johnny and his friends must find a way to stop Tyrus and save their beloved city!
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Chance of Snow
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99“Where’d we park?” Leora asks pulling a key from her jean’s pocket. “ The truck! Where’s the truck?”
“Over there!” Sydney yells pointing to Crow’s pickup. Hector emerges from the club sending the girls into hiding. Needing ample leg room for her long limbs, Sydney slides immediately to the roomy oor laying her head on the bench seat facing Leora who keels over sideways. “Maybe his boss’s head exploded!”
Hector scans the lot, steadfast, until three young girls smiling and giggling mistake him for a bouncer. It is all over. Chivalry holds the door then follows with a limp back inside.
Leora turns o the radio rolling her window down to hear any approaching vehicles that might appear out of the fog. Sirens wail in the distance. Sydney climbs on the seat. “Whew! Momma!” She rolls down her window as Leora putters through the slushy mess to the intersection just in time as four police cars burst through the fog fish tailing into the shopping center’s parking lot.
“Maybe his head did explode! AH-HA-HA!”
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Tree House Dragons
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99A leaf collecting tomboy in the woods of northern New York where she spies a massive treehouse. When she enters the treehouse seeking assistance, she is pulled to magical paintings and drawn into a grand adventure. Whose magic is this? Just a local family of dragons, one of whom is seeking a new friend.
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Edafos: Divine Wind
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Cardia, one of the many continents in the realm of Edafos, has remained relatively peaceful after 300 Years of War, a war to conquer the land started by the god-like beings called Divines. Through unimaginable pain and suffering, peace had been achieved, though for only a little more than a century. Now as corrupt Kings and religious struggles arise, one boy whose path was set to conquer Cardia rebels against the ideals of his people. He forges his way across the land, coming at odds with many trials. Will he and his band of friends change the fate of Edafos, as well as their own, or will they simply follow the path that was laid out for them?
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Sin: Walk of Shame
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99SIN; WALK OF SHAME is a story that I created as an adolescent about the Seven Deadly Sins and the people in Hell who must find the Seven Heavenly Virtues in order to escape slavery by the Sins. Their journey through the various parts of Hell in their enslavement to SIN and see the workings of all of the Sins as well as the Virtues against the Sins. This story is a precursor to other stories that I have created and hope to spread a message with, as well. I hope that the stories I create are influential to those who read them.
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Two Cowboys in New York
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Two Cowboys in New York is the story of what happens when two cowboys come for a friend’s wedding in the big city and find when they arrive that the bride’s father has disappeared. They offer to try to find out what happened to him after he left a meeting at the Port of New York and they become entangled with the New York’s Mafia, who was robbing passengers at the port.
The Mafia never ran into adversaries like these two cowboys before in their history. Indian Leader and Rocky Stone just didn’t play by the same rules that the Mafia was used to facing. They were men of the west and lived by the code of the west.
Indian and Rocky didn’t back down, they would never quit until they either won or died trying. By the time they were through, things at the Port of New York would never be like it was before they came calling.
Can Indian and Rocky find the bride’s father and let their friend’s wedding finally and corral the Mafia at the same time?
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Indian Leader Trail Boss
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99INDIAN LEADER TRAIL BOSS is the story of a trail drive led by Texas’ most famous trail boss, due to never losing a herd or a man on a drive.
Indian Leader was contacted to lead 3,000 head of Longhorns from the Star Ranch, to Dodge City. He agrees to take the job when he finds the owner killed by rustlers and his daughter Serene, desperate to get her cattle to market to pay off a loan when her bank threatens to foreclose on her ranch.
They have all the normal problems of a trail drive; too many miles; too many rivers to cross as Indian has people trying to kill him for killing their brother.
Indian and Serene find they are falling in love during the trip while a neighboring rancher, Kent Eagle, is determined to do anything he can to take over Serene’s ranch.
Indian’s problems grow with every mile: getting the cattle to market; staying alive while people are trying to kill him; selling the herd; pay off the bank loan, and keep Serene.
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Tales Times Ten
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99TALES TIMES TEN begins with the struggles of an up and coming young professional magician. We find him playing ‘finders – keepers’ inside and outside his Disappearing Cabinets, as MISTER MAGIC here in Detroit. Next, in a TWINKLING OF AN EYE, we are a witness with the ravens and a lone cardinal to one of those old time negotiations for a better life. After the ink is dry on the contract, we then take a visit to a Library of the Future as a student requests THE DOCTOR CLARK FILES. She is working up a thesis on the taboo deviant sexual behavior of certain members of Academia in the Twentieth Century. Before the authorities arrive, we find ourselves invited inside the mind of a lady architect killing time doing a puzzle in HOLY CROSSWORD DOROTHY. Just before she steps forward onto the stage, we head back to the vacant offices of Infinitex Enterprises. Here, even farther into the future, we discover the many faces of TACTILE UNDERSTANDING.
Better than halfway through, we find ourselves taking notes and dodging bullets. That is, before we spot the torn flyer requesting our presence at the grand opening of the TECHTOWN BOOK CLUB. We barely close the book on this event, when we grow increasingly alert to a rising din out there in the streets. We are startled to realize it can only be from the nearby LAND OF A THOUSAND CRIES. Now back to the future we go, leaving the screams of the past to die in the vacuum while we conduct a further learned study about the state of SEX EDUCATION. After being thoroughly briefed, regarding our study materials and classroom requirements, we then find ourselves in the Math Clinic hiding Internet Porn from the tutors as we are SOLVING FOR ‘X’.
Finally, with all this said and done, it is time to return our ticket stub to the Parking Attendant, after affixing our SPIRITUAL SIGNATURE to these TALES TIMES TEN…
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The Hawk of Yonezawa: Historical Fiction with J.S Bach
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Hawk of Yonezawa is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach who is transported to the island of Japan. Bach is on a rare trip outside his world of Leipzig, Germany, a little after the year 1742. The coach breaks down and he misses the concert that would have featured George Frederic Handel performing his own works by him. On the return trip he meets a twelve-year-old boy and his young mother.
They find that he knows how to play the organ and so they invite him to fix the one at their church. Bach refuses graciously, but once more the stage coach breaks down, and Bach is transported in a dream with the boy and his mother from him to Japan, where he is beset with adventures while trying to fix the local church organ. This novella is written for a general, religious and musically inquisitive audience. It is family fare, also suitable for high school and college readers.
Donald D. Joye is a retired professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old.After growing up on Long Island, New York, attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, where he and his wife Claudia raised their three boys.
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The Big Game
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Ten-year-old Josh Winters and his cousin, Clint Daniels, help lead their team to victory at the Little League World Series.
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Adam To The Rescue!
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Eleven year old Adam Elgin is an avid baseball player who has been playing the piano since he was four years old.
An orchestra is to be formed in his small elementary school in order to participate in a Gala for the Year of the Child Project. They have teamed up with another small elementary school to expand the orchestra’s numbers. All interested students must audition for the orchestra. Adam gets the audition music for the piano, from the school’s music teacher and has a short time to prepare for the audition.
Everybody who plays an instrument, wants to be in the orchestra and so they practice, and practice, and practice for their audition. But on the weekend
before Adam’s scheduled audition on Monday morning, he gets ill and misses his audition. Two students are chosen for the piano, one is to be the alternate, and rehearsals begin.
But a lot is going on to prepare for his school’s customary year-end festivities, taking place the last week of school: the winter concert on Tuesday, the play on Wednesday, and the orchestral debut in a dress rehearsal on Thursday, school is closed on Friday, plus the school has started a gigantic fundraiser to help with expenses for the Year of the Child gala. Both teachers and students are “stretched to the limit” in these endeavors.
It is the last day of school before the Christmas vacation, and the first dress rehearsal, but at this first dress rehearsal the two students chosen for the piano, fail to perform their best and the dress rehearsal comes to a screeching halt.
Without a reliable pianist, the gala seems unlikely for these two schools. Can the Principal fi nd a suitable replacement that can play without fear of the crowd and the pressures of performing, someone who can take them to the Gala!
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Patches and Leif
$12.99Patches, the farmer’s favorite scarecrow, is very dedicated to his job. Day after day he stands in the corn field, keeping watch over the corn. Then one day, he is surprised by a new friend, who comes floating out of the sky!
Leif is an adventurous traveling leaf. When he was pulled off the branch on which he was raised one windy day, instead of floating safely to the ground with his family and friends, he took advantage of the opportunity and sailed away to see the world on the wind.
He shares his adventures with Patches, the first of which is his discovery of a school, where he peeks in on children who are learning the alphabet, counting, and a little bit about animals and plants. He passes what he has learned on to Patches before sailing away on more adventures, but promises to return to teach the scarecrow what he learns.
With charming illustrations and straightforward language, Charles R. Abbott employs Patches and Leif to teach children valuable lessons about friendship, learning, and taking chances.