Book Releases for Young Readers

Mary Drake announces the release of The Chocolate Meteor and the print edition of her YA Fantasy, Where the Path Leads

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The Chocolate Meteor

Dieting is a b—ch! We all know it. Yet our culture worships thinness.

Phoebe, the main character of Mary Drake’s The Chocolate Meteor, enjoys food. She’s also an animal lover, and when she finds a baby mouse abandoned by its mother, she can’t resist adopting it. What will she feed this still-nursing pinky?

As Moosie, the baby mouse, grows bigger, Phoebe tries to grow smaller, to match the images she sees in magazines and on TV.

And at the heart of it all is—chocolate.

This adventure story is for anyone who’s ever had a love/hate relationship with food. How do you decide what is enough?

Imprint: Amazon
paper back $7.99; ebook, $4.99
Pages: 142
ISBN: 1736988514; 978-1736988510

Where the Path Leads

Many people wonder what it would be like to live in an earlier time. In Where the Path Leads, thirteen-year-old Emily gets to find out.

Fantasizing about knights and castles, Emily thinks life back then would have been much simpler. So, at the Renaissance Faire, she plays make believe until suddenly it all gets very real. And then it’s far from simple. She has to work harder than ever. And because she’s a laborer rather than a noble, she can’t talk back or even express new ideas without challenging the existing order.

Emily voices current attitudes about fairness and the rights of the individual, but they are in direct opposition to the structure of medieval society.

Suddenly, she becomes a traitor and an outlaw. Her only chance to save her life and that of her mentor is by going on a difficult and dangerous quest.

Throughout her experience, she keeps questioning whether it’s all real. She finds out when someone pays the ultimate price.

Imprint: Amazon
paper back, $14.99; ebook, $4.99
Pages: 362
ISBN: 1736988506; 978-1736988503

MARY L. DRAKE, MA, is an English teacher, editor, and writer who believes, as Bilbo Baggins said, that “It’s a dangerous business . . . going out of your door.” So, she chooses to travel in her imagination. She is fascinated with all things medieval. But like most of us, she probably wouldn’t fit in there, although she would love to see a dragon. Having spent years trying to manage her obsession with chocolate, she also envies the small creatures who don’t obsess over their eating.