The Kryptonite Chronicles: The Weather Man
A middle-grade novel with magic, friendship, and adventure.
Check out the synopsis!
Zach Jones always thought that he and his friends were normal, average, everyday teenagers. He was utterly wrong. One day, a stranger transports him and his two best friends, Kelly Adams and Jamie Stark, to Da Vinci Academy, a mysterious school with an ageless Leonardo Da Vinci as the Head of School. Da Vinci students are really abnormal because they have unique 'superpowers.' Zach, Jamie and Kelly learn about their own powers, enchantments and strange creatures, hidden from the world of 'normal' people. Now, Zach and his friends have to go on a life-threatening adventure to retrieve a powerful artifact, stolen by an evil rival school. But, if they fail to recover the artifact in time, Da Vinci Academy may destroyed and along with a global catastrophe. Along the way, our hero makes friends and gets help from powerful allies, but also encounters dangerous enemies. Zach and his companions must save Kelly's dead parents, while a mysterious person intrudes upon his dreams with cryptic advice and Mexican food. Yes, Zach Jones is never going to be ordinary again.
Where did this story come from?
I started writing this book at 13 years old. For years, I’ve had the itch to write a real book, and this was my time. I crafted witty characters, a dynamic plot. This became both a plot driven and character driven novel. My favorite characters to write were Annie (she’s nothing short of badass), Jamie (he’s got incredible one-liners), and the “dream lady” (the biggest mystery of the book). While this was originally the first in a series of four, The Kryptonite Chronicles will take a backseat while I focus on my adult works, namely The Allure and The Dakota Project.
“This manuscript is astonishing in its level of accomplishment. For me, the wit of the language is outstanding. The banter of the characters emerges naturally from each situation, and is very funny and contemporary in its references … adventure stories focusing on a group of friends who each discovers he/she has a superpower, and how their gradual realization of who they are … pushes the plot forward through the many obstacles thrown in their collective path …The dialogue is sophisticated, and often involves a play on words … This is then a symphony … This is a great novel!”
- Dr. Harte Weiner, CambridgeEditors