Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.
Kings fall, and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend, and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.
Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?
she would often exclaim how wonderful it was We gave this to our nine-year-old daughter for Christmas and she polished it off within three days. Throughout her reading of it, she would often exclaim how wonderful it was, and the day she finished it she gave us a rave review as to all of the things that were great about it. I had to restrain her from telling me the whole story because I want to read it myself! My daughter is an avid reader and has liked a lot of books, but her excitement over The Green Ember was the greatest I’ve seen. She…
Designed For Children, Written For Everyone A great story, written well. It’s full of intrigue, adventure, action, mystery, surprise and struggle, but with a good mixture of humor and playfulness. Written for children but in a way adults will enjoy.Â
Wonderful story. Fun adventure. “My place beside you, my blood for yours. Till the Green Ember rises or the end of the world!” So ends the prologue to The Green Ember. What a start! S.D. Smith’s debut novel stands in stark contrast to most contemporary middle school fiction. Courage, loyalty, wisdom, and hope abound. Classic virtues are esteemed. It is moral without moralizing. It is dramatic without resorting to preteen angst. It is swashbuckling without glorifying violence. Good is good and evil is evil. Clearly Smith…