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How the Victorians kept warm

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Strange new talents...

Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London. Lately he's started seeing ghosts, and discovers he can move solid objects with his mind! He has no idea why.

Next thing he knows, a Sinister Gentleman and his minions come hunting him. On the run for his life, Jake is plunged headlong into a mysterious world full of magic and deadly peril. A world that holds the secret to who he really is: the long-lost heir of an aristocratic family—with magical powers!

But with treacherous enemies closing in, it will take all of his wily street instincts and the help of his friends—both human and magical— to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents, and defeat the foes who never wanted the Lost Heir of Griffon to be found...

Book 1: BONUS EXTRAS!

What's it like to Ride a Gryphon?

The Language of Love

The Secret Life of Gryphons

The British Aristocracy

The Lost Heir Playlist

Did you know? THE LOST HEIR is in the AR (Accelerated Reader) Program. Book Level 5.5 / 16 AR points. Fyi, listening to the audiobook does count. Click here for further information.

Book 2 - Jake & The Giant

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JAKE & THE GIANT is also in the AR Program. Book Level 5.6 / 18 AR points. Click here for further information.

Big Trouble!
Reunited with his aristocratic magical relatives, and finally getting used to his supernatural powers, orphaned ex-pickpocket Jake Everton, the young Lord Griffon, travels on his first-ever holiday to beautiful Norway. There, at an amazing (steampunk!) Invention Convention, his cousin Archie, the boy genius, plans to unveil his marvelous new flying machine to the scientific world.

But legends of the Viking Age die hard in Scandinavia, bringing mysteries that even Thomas Edison and Nikola Telsa can't explain. Danger strikes as famous Victorian geniuses start disappearing from the Convention without explanation.

When Archie vanishes, too, Jake races to the rescue. With the help of his trusty pet Gryphon, he tracks the kidnapper to his lair -- only to come face-to-face with an angry Norse giant! Thus Jake's second quest in the Gryphon Chronicles begins...

From the whimsical steampunk oddities of the "Invention Convention" to wondrous worlds of Norse mythology, join Jake and his friends on a giant-sized adventure that's as much fun for grownups as it is for kids!

Book 2: BONUS EXTRAS!

The Invention Convention

A Visit to Giant Land

Say Cheeeese

Beware the Ice Grendels!

Book 3 - The Dark Portal

Listen to The Souling Song

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The Pickpocket Who Inherited a Goldmine
After his harsh beginnings as a rough-and-tumble orphan on the streets of London, Jake Everton takes his rightful place as the long-lost heir of an aristocratic family with magical powers – his personal quest, to follow in his slain parents’ footsteps as a Lightrider in the age-old battle of good versus evil. In the fantastical nooks and crannies of the Victorian Age, Jake and his friends (including his pet Gryphon!) find no shortage of adventure – righting magic-related wrongs, solving supernatural mysteries, and exploring wondrous new worlds.

A Dark Presence
Something stalks a quaint town in the misty mountains of Wales, attacking humans and magic folk alike. Jake and his friends must get to the bottom of it – and in the land of deep, dwarven mines, the bottom can be very dark, indeed.

THE DARK PORTAL is also in the AR Program. Book Level 5.9 / 15 AR points. Click here for further information.

Book 3: BONUS EXTRAS!

Welcome to Wales!

On Pixies

Interview with a Gargoyle - Meet Mischief

Wonders Underground

Victorian Spirit Photography

Jake & The Gingerbread Wars

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A CHRISTMAS NOVELLA (Connected to the series, but can stand alone. You can read this one in any order - and it doesn't have to be Christmastime!)

It's Jake's first Christmas with his eccentric magical relatives, but trouble never takes a holiday...

SANTA'S HORRID LITTLE HELPER
Humbug hates being a Christmas elf. Instead of making toys, he'd rather make mischief. Angling for a new job in Halloween Town, he sets out to prove he's frightful enough for the task by ruining Christmas for as many people as possible--until Jake and his friends capture him. The kids set out on a rip-roaring adventure to the North Pole to hand the troublemaker over to Santa and collect the reward. But the way is fraught with danger, leaving them to wonder if they'll make it back in time for Christmas...or if they'll even make it back alive!

Book 3.5: BONUS EXTRAS!

O-La-La, Patisserie! - Peek inside a French pastry shop like the one Jake visits

How to Survive in the Arctic

Penguin Awareness

New Year's Resolutions

The Feast of St. Lucy

Book 4 - Rise of Allies

Constanzio, King of the Tenors!

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RISE OF ALLIES is also in the AR Program. Book Level 5.7 / 22 AR points. Click here for further information.

A Storm on the Horizon…

Every spring, the aristocratic magical families of Victorian England gather secretly at Merlin Hall to hobnob and to hold the annual Fey Parliament. While the adults of Magic-kind – from wizards to wood elves, fauns to fairies, giants to djinnis, and their human counterparts – debate matters of importance, the gifted youths must undergo the dreaded Assessments, testing their supernatural abilities.

For rascally Jake Everton, the boy Earl of Griffon, the pressure’s on! Hungry to qualify for the elite Lightrider program that guarantees a life of adventure, Jake must prove himself to the Elders as a worthy future hero-in-training. But when a mysterious junior witch arrives at Merlin Hall with secrets in her eyes and danger at her heels, Jake and his friends must unite to defeat the dark forces that have invaded the Gathering and have sworn the frightfully-talented girl’s destruction.

Join Jake and Dani, Archie and Isabelle on an epic journey into a world of enchantment, making marvelous new friends…and terrible new enemies.

Book 4: BONUS EXTRAS!

The Green Man

The Long Man

Book 5 - Secrets of the Deep

The Victorian Steamer Trunks

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SECRETS OF THE DEEP is also in the AR Program. Book Level 6.1 / 28 AR points. Click here for further information.

Some lost treasures were never meant to be found…

With the Dark Druids after him and a magical war brewing, thirteen-year-old Jake Everton must lie low for a while, so his Elder witch aunt takes him and the gang on a long beach holiday, out of harm’s way. But sure enough, Jake plunges into trouble once again when he meets a feisty royal mermaid on the run.

Princess Sapphira, daughter of King Nereus, recently ventured into the deep and stumbled upon a powerful artifact from ancient Atlantis. But the mysterious orb holds deadlier secrets than she ever suspected, and now every power-mad tyrant in the Seven Seas wants it—especially the dread, undead pirate king, Captain Davy Jones. When the legendary Lord of the Locker invades her father’s kingdom and takes her little sister hostage, demanding the orb in exchange, Sapphira blames herself for the catastrophe and means to hand it over. But Jake finds out that if Jones gets the orb, he’ll use its power to drown the world in a second Noah’s Flood!

Now it’s up to the aspiring young Lightrider and his friends to help the mermaid rescue her little sister and save the world from the same watery doom that drowned Atlantis—if Jake and the headstrong princess don’t strangle each other first!

Book 5: BONUS EXTRAS!

The Return of Constanzio

The Grand Tour!

Glowing Things: Bioluminescence & Alicia Mirabilis

Thresher Shark Man

Lord Wyvern

The Crater of Karakum, The Door to Hell!

The Inkbug That Almost Went SPLAT!!!

Book 6 - The Black Fortress