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As many of you know, I’ve been laying low the last month or so. However, I am happy to pop back to help celebrate
the release of C. Lee McKenzie’s novel, Alligators
Overhead. I just started reading this middle grade novel and I can tell you
that I’m already pulled in by the mystery of the spooky mansion that appears.
What does this mean? How will Pete and his pal figure out what’s going on?
Alligators,
witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors unless you live at
the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville. The town's
bad boy, Pete Riley, may only be twelve, but he's up to his eyeballs in big
trouble, and this time he isn't the cause. This time the trouble arrives when a
legendary hundred-year-old mansion materializes next door and the Ornofree
alligators declare war to save their swamp from bulldozers. Things only get
worse when Pete's guardian aunt and several of her close friends vanish while
trying to restore order using outdated witchcraft. Now Pete must find the
witches and stop the war. He might stand a chance if his one friend, Weasel,
sticks with him, but even then, they may not have what it takes.
C.
Lee McKenzie is a native Californian who grew up in a lot of different places;
then landed in the Santa Cruz Mountains where she lives with her family and
miscellaneous pets. She writes most of the time, gardens and hikes and does
yoga a lot, and then travels whenever she can.
She
takes on modern issues that today's teens face in their daily lives. Her first
young adult novel, Sliding on the Edge, which dealt with cutting and suicide
was published in 2009. Her second, titled The Princess of Las Pulgas, dealing
with a family who loses everything and must rebuild their lives came out in
2010. Her short stories appear in Stories for Children, The First Time and the
soon to be published, Two and Twenty Dark Tales. She just published her first
Middle Grade novel, Alligators Overhead, this year.
TWITTER :
@cleemckenzie
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There’s nothing like a good novel to fall into on a summer day.
Have you read Alligators Overhead
yet?
I’m off to go read some more.
Happy reading and writing!
