Booktalk #1

Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind—a newborn changeling. But when the night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. Too perfectly: Kull cannot tell them apart! In his panic to return to his own world, he leaves both babies behind.

Fast forward several years, and the babies, Tinn and Cole, having been raised as twins, are now thirteen years old. They receive a mysterious message, telling them that the changeling child must return to the Wild Wood, or risk destroying the very fabric of the magical universe. The trouble is, no one---not even the twins themselves---knows which of them is human, and which is the goblin changeling.

Thus begins their quest to discover the truth of their origins and to confront the powers that have set this situation in motion. They will encounter many dangers, meet new friends, and make some enemies, but all the while they are racing toward the moment when they each must decide where their loyalties lie---to the world of humans, the world of magic, or to each other.

Read Changeling if you love a great fantasy with characters you really care about!  (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award, 2021)

Booktalk #2

Everyone in the town of Endsborough knew that they should never go into the Wild Wood. It was full of dangerous magic. But in the Wild Wood, the magic was fading. Desperate to restore the magic, a goblin named Kull decides to swap a new human baby for a rare changeling, a goblin who can take on the form of any baby. However, Kull is interrupted before he can snatch the human baby, leaving two exact replicas, one human and one goblin, in the crib. The brave mother raises the “twins” for 12 years, until the day that they receive the summons, a call back to the Wild Wood and a quest to find out the truth about them both. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021)

Booktalk #3

Tinn and Cole look like identical twins – but one of them, due to Kull, a bumbling goblin, is really a changeling. But which? Now that they’re nearly thirteen, a message and a map arrive from Kull, telling them that if the changeling does not return to the goblin horde, both he, the horde, and magic itself will die. So off both boys go on a dangerous adventure into the Wild Wood and across the Oddmire swamp. There they meet a strange shape-shifting girl named Fable and contend with a fearsome monster before, at last, discovering who they really are. The first of a series.  (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021)