Magic by the Dollar: A Skeptic, a Scrooge, and Two Kids in the Kingdom of Orlando

by Melissa Yuan-Innes

Overview

One family. Three days. Two theme parks. Will they survive?
The players.
Code name: The Skeptic. When he was a kid, his parents would drive him and his sister down on annual torture-trips to Florida, with the dog sandwiched between them. The Skeptic hates crowds and noise, and barely tolerates his own family. Theme parks=the most excruciating place on earth, to him. So why should he submit to this hell? Because of…
Code name: The Scrooge. She got a deal on cheap hotel rooms in Happyworld. All they have to do is listen to a time share presentation. No big deal, in exchange for a few days of magic and wonder in Happyworld and Blockville. Because they’re bringing…
Code name: Mad Max. Seven years old. All of his classmates have already been to Happyworld. Some of them have already gone twice! One of them missed two weeks of school! It’s not fair! And…
Code name: Anger-stasia. Three years old. Barely out of diapers, usually cheery, but prone to screaming fits if things go wrong.
But nothing goes wrong in Happyworld and Blockville.
Ever.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045778626
Publisher:	Olo Books
Publication date:	01/24/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	87 KB

About the Author

Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada.

She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan.

"Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight."
--Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel

"Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker"
--Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's

"Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original."
--Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_