A taste of Nathaniel, next in the Sylvan series

Nathaniel is the next story after Sylvan and Luke. I've been having fun lately writing it. Here's a wee taste.

"Freak!"

Jeremy shoved Samuel into the gulley between the unpaved country road and a stand of birch trees.

Samuel didn't know what else to do, so he got back on his feet, feeling something raw on one knee. He blinked at the boys from Sylvan's country school who had followed him.

"Nothing to say, freak?" Jeremy asked him, raising dark brows. He'd asked the same thing when Samuel had brou...