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ChironBooks win awards! Moonbeam Book Awards USA Book News Best Books Eric Hoffer Book Awards USA Book News Best Book Awards International Book Awards Reader Views literary awards Moonbeam Book Awards International Book Awards USA Book News Best Books

Someone Talked, WWII homefrontMoonbeam 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

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Anna's World historical fictionYA 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

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available in print and all ebook formats

Payshapes and the Bear bilingual storiesEnglish and Spanish
on facing pages

Payshapes and the Bear / Péxeps y el Oso
by Lucina Kathmann

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

Juggler in the Wind, Olympian GodsA 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

reproducible, royalty-free Classroom PlaysReproducible 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.

To see the list of plays, watch a video, and download the FREE Teacher Guide, click here.

Red Monocle fantasy adventuresFantasy 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!

Check out Madeira Press Collections of great stories:

Fantastic horse stories from myths and legends.Horses
in myths, legends, folktales,
and other ancient stories

20 terrific tales and features, illustrated.
Buy HORSES
Buy it from an indie bookstore

Humor and fantasy from Edgar Allan PoeThe 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:

Plays on Ideas by Wim Coleman

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:

The Crow's Story, Wand Bearer TrilogyA midquel in
The Wand Bearer Trilogy
The Crow's Story
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.

A Forest of Mathematics by Lucina KathmannA novel and math book at once, by Lucina Kathmann
A Forest of Mathematics
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.

The Wand Bearer Trilogy continues
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.
Red Monocle continues
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.

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