A Tick in Time

Do you know a child who would benefit from reading healthy, family based, action/adventure literature? Do you need a gift for a boy or girl between the ages of 8 and 12? Big Pine Lodge books help kids to improve their reading and vocabulary skills without tedious lessons and memorization. These stories promise action and adventure in real life situations without subscribing to current themes of witchcraft and vampires. Parents can use these books as jumping off points for discussions with their children about danger, bullying, responsibility, death, stealing, lying and more. My latest book, A TICK IN TIME, is a middle-grade fantasy-fiction novel with surprising twists, unusual creatures, quirky riddles and (gently) scary moments. Tommy MacArthur is a 6th-grader who is spending the summer at his grandparents’ with his younger brother. Though he is warned not to run past the old pendulum clock he does, of course, and the clock ticks when it should have tocked and Tommy is plunged into another dimension. He navigates through a number of adventures before stumbling upon the solution to returning. When he shows his new friend, Noelle, how to slip into the strange land, the two of them fearlessly explore. However their younger siblings have followed them through the portal and that means trouble. And who or what will follow them back? A Tick in Time