Perfect Middle Grade Reading for Summer in the Redwoods
"This imaginative fantasy by debut author Hendrix becomes a roller-coaster ride into the supernatural...throughout, Hendrix adds real-world substance to the plot with a framework of the area's folklore, history, geography and ecology...Lively and sometimes surly preteen characters helm this fresh, well-crafted supernatural fantasy."
Perfect reading for 9-13-year-olds or anyone who loves redwoods, forests, the environment, animals, magic, mystery and monsters.
Set in Sonoma County and at a fictional summer camp in the forest in west Mendocino County.
"Clean Teen" Mom-approved.
Currently on sale at Pages on the Green in Windsor, Copperfield's Books in Healdsburg, Santa Rosa and Petaluma, and The Gallery Bookshop & Bullwinkle's Children's Books in Mendocino.
Northern California writer Teresa Mariani Hendrix was born in Marin County, raised in Marin and Sonoma Counties, and her family has a 70-year history on the Noyo River in Mendocino County.
This is her first work of fiction after a long career in newspaper reporting and university public relations. She's still dancing for joy at her first Kirkus Review.
Find out more about "The Pack: The Dare and the Draugar" on her author website, tjhendrix.com