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Title: A Sandy Grave

Category: Chapbooks for Tweens

Author: Donna M. McDine

Illustrator: Julie Hammond

Hardcover ISBN: 9781616334543; 1616334541

Softcover ISBN: 9781616334550; 161633455X

eBook ISBN: 9781616334567; 1616334568 

Available: Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Guardian Angel Publishing and through the author for autographed copies.  

Leah and her friends are looking forward to a fun-filled

vacation at the beach.  A whale isn't in their plans, but there he is mysteriously beached, dead, and missing teeth!  

Donna McDine has written a wonderfully suspenseful

 book colorfully illustrated by the equally talented

Julie Hammond, that will be fun reading for any child

who loves a bit of mystery.  Her descriptive language

is easy enough for a tween to understand yet interesting

for an older child as well.  Just in time for summer

reading, the story follows Leah as she

unravels a mystery Nancy Drew herself would

have loved.  But, the story is not just a good beach tale.

There's a subtle lesson here too:  Doing the right

thing can be scary, but it doesn't change the fact

that right is right.

I love this book.  It's well written, timely, edgy enough to

keep a tween on the edge of his/her seat, (me too!) and

fun to read.

   

 

Here's a creative little

Book Trailer

for A Sandy Grave you will surely enjoy.

 

Donna is generously offering a wonderful giveaway

for a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card!

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About the author: Donna McDine is an award-winning children's author, Honorable Mention in the 77th and two Honorable Mentions in the 78^th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competitions, Literary Classics Silver Award & Seal of Approval Recipient Picture Book Early Reader, Readers Favorite 2012 International Book Awards Honorable Mention, Global eBook Awards Finalist Children’s Picture Book Fiction, and Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2010 Top Ten Children’s Books ~ The Golden Pathway.

Her interest in American History resulted in writing and publishing The Golden Pathway. Donna’s 2013 releases of Powder Monkey and Hockey Agony and the 2014 release of A Sandy Grave will be joined by an additional book to be published by Guardian Angel Publishing, Dee and Deb, Off They Go. She writes, moms and is a personal assistant from her home in the historical hamlet Tappan, NY. McDine is a member of the SCBWI, Children’s Literature Network, and Family Reading Partnership. 

Learn more about McDine’s writing career at www.donnamcdine.com and www.donna-mcdine.blogspot.com for a full virtual book tour schedule.