5 Novels by Darcy Pattison
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Overview: Writing teacher and author Darcy Pattison blogs about the writing process, with tips on how to write stronger novels and picture books.
Darcy Pattison presents family stories, nature and science stories and adventure.
Genre: Children, YA Fiction
Liberty: A ROUSING TALE OF DANGER ON THE HIGH SEAS — When Santiago is thrust into the farm’s pigsty, Penelope is captivated by Santiago Talbert’s boast, "I plan to sail the Seven Seas."
Together, these extraordinary pigs escape the farm and cross into the land of Liberty, a parallel world where an intelligent human or animal can get ahead. They follow their dream to Boston harbor, where they try to convince sea captains that pigs can sail. First, though, Santiago learns mapmaking, while Penelope works on the docks loading ships.
Eventually Penelope signs onto the Ice King’s crew as he cuts and packs ice to ship to the far-flung corners of the world. When the fleet of ice ships sails, Penelope and Santiago join the crew of the flagship, captained by Captain Kingsley, the Ice King himself. A massive polar bear, he harbors dark secrets, and the pigs face the shocking truth: they alone can save the friendly sea serpents from the Ice King’s clutches.
From the fascinating world of tall ships comes this unlikely tale of humble pigs who follow their dream. Come and follow the Talberts on their journey.
Longing for Normal: Eliot Winston, a grieving son, must convince his new step-mother – now Griff Winston’s widow – to adopt him. Meanwhile, Alli just wants to meet her foster-mother’s new baby, a baby that she considers her sister. But life is hard.
When she married Griff Winston, Marj Winston hadn’t bargained on being the single mother of a twelve-year-old boy; when Griff dies suddenly, she’s left with a big decision: should she adopt Eliot or not? Alli Flynn, a foster child new to the school, convinces Eliot that he must fight to keep his family intact and the best way to do that is to help Mrs. Winston with the Bread Project, a fund raising project for the school. With his whole future at stake, Eliot tries hard to please Marj. When Alli’s foster-mother got pregnant, the family decided they didn’t want a foster-child any longer. Alli understands; she just wants to meet the baby she had considered her new sister. She just wants to see her and then she’ll leave them alone. As but as the deadlines near for the Bread Project, for Marj to sign Eliot’s adoption papers, and the birth of Alli’s foster-sister draws nearer, Eliot and Alli find it harder and harder to hang on to hope.
In the tradition of Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt, this story follows two kids who search for a family and a home.
Vagabonds: STRANGERS IN THE LAND Galen, the nine-banded armadillo, must accept the Tex, the ambitious outsider, as leader of the search for the fabled Faralone Falls, a place they can finally call home. But on the frontier, survival is the only thing that matters. Follow the armadillos on this epic quest for a home.
An Epic Quest Across a Dangerous Frontier In the tradition of Warriors, Seekers, or The Guardins of Ga-Hoole comes the American fantasy, VAGABONDS, the sweeping saga of El Garro’s armadillo colony, the scouts and pioneers who have always been at the forefront of the migration. Rumors from their original homeland, the jungles far to the south, suggest that El Garro’s colony may be nearing the fabled Faralone Falls, where they will find the answer to why they have traveled northward for decades.
On the frontier, the armadillos face the unknown. Each step, each decision is uncertain, full of dangers. Galen must find the courage to take the necessary steps, even though he fears the outcome.
The Girl, the Gypsy and the Gargoyle: “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
—Michelangelo
But what if an unscrupulous sculptor could trap someone inside a block of stone, just so he could carve them?
Master Gimpel, a deformed stone carver, intrigues Laurel and Jassy, her gypsy friend, when he offers a path to untold riches. Master Gimpel explains that his Troll’s Eye, a red jewel, is a doorway into the stone world where a treasure cave awaits. From the moment Laurel looks through the Troll’s Eye, she and her gypsy companion enter a dangerous race for their lives. Two go in, two must come out.
Saucy and Bubba: In this modern-day Hansel and Gretel story, Saucy and Bubba struggle to get along with Krissy, their alcoholic stepmother. One freezing cold night, Krissy locks Saucy out of the house and Saucy must sleep in the barn. In a desperate move, Saucy and Bubba run away to their aunt’s house-except Aunt Vivian isn’t home. Trying to take care of Bubba for several days forces Saucy to take charge of her own life and accept a terrible sacrifice in order to find safety for herself. This is a simple story that weaves through the tangled threads of a family and builds to an ending full of hope.
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