Snow Globe Travelers: Samuel's Legacy

by K a Cummins

Overview

In the heart of Vienna, twelve-year-old Sarah Ann Reisende wanders into a mysterious shop where snow globes double as portals to other worlds. After breaking the globe tethered to Earth, she discovers a cryptic note scribbled on the back of a photograph. The note links her father, who left before her third birthday, to a place called Elohi. Could this be a chance to find her father at last?

Unable to return home, Sarah follows the lead into the world of Elohi. But an army of vicious hybrids led by a genetically engineered warrior named Malvine now rules the once peaceful planet. And she becomes a target as Malvine wants to use the shop's connections to wage war.

Can Sarah uncover the truth behind her father leaving and find a way home before Malvine gains control of the shop?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732920002
Publisher:	Eleonora Press
Publication date:	04/30/2019
Series:	Snow Globe Travelers , #1
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

K.A. Cummins is an award-winning author and an artist. She explores storytelling in a variety of mediums, blending the wonders of science with the possibilities of what if. She seeks to offer readers adventurous narratives that spark imagination and inspire grace for themselves and for others. When she's not crafting stories, Cummins loves learning, collecting fun socks, and venturing outside her comfort zone to try new things-at least once!

Editorial Reviews

05/11/2020

A tween travels to a parallel Earth via snow globe in Cummins’s entertaining debut novel. Sarah Reisende, 12, lives in the Austrian countryside with her mother and grandparents; her father left when she was two. At a local festival, Sarah trails a mischievous feline to a strange snow globe shop, where she discovers that the globes open portals to other worlds. When Sarah breaks the one connecting her to Vienna, she fears she’s stuck. Finding a photo and a note mentioning her father and a mysterious world called Elohi, Sarah shakes the respective globe, which whisks her away to an alternate Earth ruled by the malevolent human-tiger warrior Malvine and his carnivorous snake-plant hybrid Bog Hunters. Luckily, an Elohian family takes Sarah in, and their children, Elias and Mag Zogel, pledge to help investigate the Galactic Snow Globe Travelers and find Sarah a way home. At times, Sarah’s narration scans as formal (“Vienna’s bustling activity and graceful architecture echoed a lineage rooted in culture and gentility”), but readers will enjoy her adventures in this creative, accessible introduction to multiverse concepts, the first in a series. Ages 10–up. (Self-published)

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