ChironBooks win awards!      
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 Moonbeam Medal 2012
Highly-praised historical fiction—WWII Chicago
Someone Talked!
by R. Conrad Stein
includes historical
background information
"A great read for ages 8 and up that doesn’t pander or talk down to kids." —World War II magazine
"Excellent educational-recreational reading for tweens."— Midwest Book Review
Buy Someone Talked!
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 YA Historical Fiction
also loved by many adults
Anna's World
by Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin
1845 America—a bright, headstrong girl faces challenges in a Shaker community and in Boston.
4 NATIONAL AWARDS
• Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
• USA Book News “Best Books”
• Reader Views Literary Awards
• Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Buy Anna's World
available in print and all ebook formats
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One human, lots of animals, and a few delightful dragons.
Buy Payshapes and the Bear/Péxeps y el Oso
• International Book Awards—children's fiction
• animal characters • humor • great illustrations
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 A quest beyond
ordinary reality
Juggler in the Wind
by Wim Coleman & Pat Perrin
Book 1 in the Wand Bearer Trilogy—a completely new take on the ancient Olympian Gods.
Buy Juggler in the Wind
available in print and all ebook formats
• USA Book News Best Books Awards—fantasy
• YA fantasy adventure novel • mysterious circus
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 Reproducible plays +
reading comprehension
Classroom Plays
by Wim Coleman
Reproducible—5 plays‚
105 reading comprehension questions. Page size: 8.5 x 11
Buy the book ........Buy & download the PDF file
• plays for middle grade and high school
• the printable PDF file contains all the same pages as the printed book.
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 Fantasy series
for tweens & up
Red Monocle
by Wim Coleman
...& Pat Perrin
Adventures in myth
and legend, available
in print and all ebooks
Buy The Taker and the Keeper
Buy The Death of the Good Wizard
• International Book Awards—children's series
• a fantasy adventure series for middle-school
• Merlin • King Arthur • danger • dragon • sorcery
Learn about our FREE books for schools!
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| Check out Madeira Press Collections of great stories: |
 Horses
in myths, legends, folktales,
and other ancient stories
20 terrific tales and features, illustrated.
Buy HORSES
Buy it from an indie bookstore
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 The Poe
You Don't Know
Humor and fantasy where you might not expect to find it.
Buy The Poe You Don't Know
Buy it from an indie bookstore |
 One-act plays for high school, college, and community theater:
Five exciting ten-minute plays.
Lively historical characters discussing ideas that people live and die for.
• You can buy these plays as individual pdf downloads or as a book. Learn more. |
| Upcoming from ChironBooks, more adventures for young readers: |
 A midquel in
The Wand Bearer Trilogy
Short, illustrated, mystical and mythical, The Crow's Story is the tale of the magical bird who leads the Circus Olympus performers toward their destiny at the end of Juggler in the Wind. The Crow will play a most important role in Star Road (2013), so get in on his story early. The Wand Bearer encounters Native American mythology.
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 A novel and math book at once, by Lucina Kathmann
The animal characters in a forest present negative numbers, Cartesian coordinates, exponents, fractions, decimals, and percents through "real-life" (of the forest) situations, worksheets included, and a wayward young dragon who is redeemed through math. For tweens, teens and imaginative adults.
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Juggler in the Wind, the first book of The Wand Bearer Trilogy, will be followed by Star Road and Otherworld. Written for teens and older by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. When gods grow old to the brink of death, Randy plays a role in their wondrous rebirth. And when he falls in love with an immortal goddess, he must journey into a realm dreaded by mortals everywhere. By the end of Randy’s quest, our very world will never be the same.
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The Taker and The Keeper and The Death of the Good Wizard feature King Arthur and his knights; The Invisible Foe introduces the African trickster Anansi, who first unleashed stories into the world. In further Red Monocle books, from authors Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. Young readers will delight in experiencing more great myths and legends. |
