Bøger af John Rosegrant

Maggie, Dan's changeling girlfriend, languishes in a fairy prison. Sister, the mortal stolen by fairies in exchange for Maggie, has the changeling's Truename and plans to use it to enslave her. And Dan? Dan and his friends Alice and Josh have passed through a gate to the world of Inland-a gate stranding them in thick tropical jungle. There, Dan hopes to locate Sister before she can use Maggie's Truename to enslave her, but Sister proves difficult to locate, and the jungle is filled with danger. Voices whisper in the night, and every morning brings strange footprints, always moving away from Dan and his friends. When Dan meets people from the normal world-the first he's discovered in Inland-he begins to doubt the reason he was first brought to the magical world. Does he have competition in his quest for the First Changing Beast? And if his rivals find the beast first, what will it mean for his future with Maggie? In Marrowland, the fourth installment of the Gates of Inland series, Dan and Maggie will be forced to make a decision that will test their commitment-to Dan's quest and to each other.

Kintravel picks up where Gatemoodle: Book One of The Gates Of Inland left off, with Dan and Josh embarking on their first year of college. While Josh enjoys the social scene, Dan is so preoccupied with getting to the enchanted realm of Inland-and to beautiful Maggie-that all he does is study and practice archery in preparation for fighting off goblins. The closest thing to magical creatures on campus is the goth kid who was best friends with Maggie. Known as the Green Goblin, he has a strange aura that leads Dan to believe he can help him find the way to rejoin Maggie and pursue his quest to save Inland-and himself. The Green Goblin's cryptic messages lead Dan and his friends to southern Mexico, where a spring break party in Cancun gets somewhat out of hand. But the real destination of the trip is a Mayan temple at Palenque, where a local shaman gives Dan a powerful amulet that will open the gate to Inland. Offering excitement and plenty of good-natured humor, Kintravel seamlessly blends an imaginative fantasy adventure with the realities young adults face as they seek purpose, love, and an answer to the question, Who am I?

Life is complicated enough for seventeen-year-old Dan with his embarrassing old friends and confusing new crush. But when his childhood stuffed beaver starts popping up where he doesn't belong and messing with Dan's head, things take a turn for the totally bizarre. And that's before a little old man suddenly appears in his bedroom to play computer games. Has Dan totally lost his grip on reality-or is the strange visitor for real when he says he needs help to keep the passage open to some magical world called Inland? Gatemoodle is the debut fantasy novel by John Rosegrant that stirs up a mind-stretching brew of brilliant magic, wisecracking humor, and even one or two clues to the meaning of life. The book introduces a new breed of adventurers who explore supernatural enchantments while still grappling with good old teenage life. Dan was already stressed about his future and his friends. His best friend Josh wants to hunt Sasquatch. And Dan has a massive crush on Maggie, but she seems more drawn to the Goth kid called the Green Goblin. Not only that, but Dan still has to get his head around the weird little man in his room, who calls himself a Gatekeeper and who looks curiously like the guy Dan saw at the office of his new therapist, Dr. Green. As Dan tries to open a magical gate and get to know Maggie, he also must open up to feelings about her gay friends, drug use, and troubled past. The Gatekeeper and Dr. Green are there to help him make some sense of it all, which is definitely a good thing considering creatures are trying to kill him. Can Dan escape to a magical world, or is there too much to do in his own, very real world? Find out in Gatemoodle, the wildly inventive tale that mashes up reality with fantasy in astonishing new ways. You're sure to eagerly follow Dan's foray into uncharted realms as he faces odd and terrifying dangers, gathers strange allies, and draws on resources he never knew he had.

Dan and his Changeling girlfriend Maggie barely escaped the enchanted realm of Inland, and now they're searching for a way back to rescue her parents and find the First Changing Beast, the only way to connect Inland with the normal world...but Sister, the cruel witch, is waiting for them. Dan and his friends decide their only choice is to lure Sister to follow them from Inland into the regular world, weakening her terrifying powers. As Josh quips: "What could go wrong?" Well, plenty. Turns out that Sister doesn't lose all her powers when she comes to Outland. And Dan is hearing warnings about a new danger, the enigmatic Rattleman. Could the Rattleman be Maggie's odd friend the Green Goblin? Worse yet, could the Rattleman be Dan's therapist, Dr. Green? Surrounded by mysteries and threats, Dan and his companions must overcome their fears and fulfill their missions even as they discover more about where they belong in two completely different worlds.

Focusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements of developmental psychology to explore both Tolkien's life and art, deepening our understanding of the interrelationship between his biography and writing.