Snow Globe Travelers: Samuel's Legacy
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
In the heart of Vienna, twelve-year-old Sarah Ann Reisende wanders into a mysterious shop where snow globes double as portals to other worlds. After breaking the globe tethered to Earth, she discovers a cryptic note scribbled on the back of a photograph. The note links her father, who left before her third birthday, to a place called Elohi. Could this be a chance to find her father at last?
Unable to return home, Sarah follows the lead into the world of Elohi. But an army of vicious hybrids led by a genetically engineered warrior named Malvine now rules the once peaceful planet, and she becomes a target as Malvine want to use the shop's connections to wage war.
Can Sarah uncover the truth behind her father leaving and find a way home before Malvine gains control of the shop?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A tween travels to a parallel Earth via snow globe in Cummins's entertaining debut novel. Sarah Reisende, 12, lives in the Austrian countryside with her mother and grandparents; her father left when she was two. At a local festival, Sarah trails a mischievous feline to a strange snow globe shop, where she discovers that the globes open portals to other worlds. When Sarah breaks the one connecting her to Vienna, she fears she's stuck. Finding a photo and a note mentioning her father and a mysterious world called Elohi, Sarah shakes the respective globe, which whisks her away to an alternate Earth ruled by the malevolent human-tiger warrior Malvine and his carnivorous snake-plant hybrid Bog Hunters. Luckily, an Elohian family takes Sarah in, and their children, Elias and Mag Zogel, pledge to help investigate the Galactic Snow Globe Travelers and find Sarah a way home. At times, Sarah's narration scans as formal ("Vienna's bustling activity and graceful architecture echoed a lineage rooted in culture and gentility"), but readers will enjoy her adventures in this creative, accessible introduction to multiverse concepts, the first in a series. Ages 10 up. (Self-published)
