Books with author Gregory Cholmondeley

A castle is destroyed in 597 AD and forty survivors flee to an isolated village in the forest of southwest Wessex. They hide under threat of death for seven years until a girl, affectionately nicknamed Princess, rescues a boy left to die on the side of a road and their lives change forever.Princess has spent seven of her thirteen years hiding as a refugee with a small group of her family and friends. Rescuing the boy, Cynegils, and hearing his stories about the world outside has ignited her desire to experience it. But her village has a secret that will destroy them all if it is ever discovered.The two fall in love as Cynegils is nursed back to health through the spring. By the time he is strong enough for the dangerous journey home, Princess has learned an even darker secret about her family and faces an ultimate decision: Should she leave to see the world and marry the first boy she’s ever loved? Princess will never see her family or home again if she leaves and will always carry the burden of a secret she can never tell anyone – even Cynegils. But she loses her only chance for love if she stays.Life is tough enough when you’re thirteen. Making a decision like this while facing starvation, marauding wolf packs, and hiding from an active death threat makes coming of age seem almost impossible.#princessofwessex

This charming story is a little girl’s fanciful explanation of what the silly phrases in her favorite clapping song mean. She weaves every word, in order, into her tale about trying to buy a loaf of bread on Christmas Eve.I went to a Chinese restaurantto buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread.They asked me what my name was,and this is what I said, said, said:My name is L, I, L, I, Chickelei, Chickelei,pompom beauty, extra cutie.I know karate! Punch you in the body!Oops, I’m sorry! Don’t call my mommy!Don’t call my daddy! He’s a big fatty.Chinese, Japanese, Indiana Freeze!American cheese, please.Li Chickelei and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich is written at a level suitable for readers throughout elementary school. Younger children will also enjoy listening to the tale and playing the clapping game.CHOLMONCO STORYTELLER BOOKSThis book contains a Quick Response Code (QR Code), which can be scanned with your smartphone to listen to the author speak the words while your child reads the story. Online audio links provide a fun way to assist children in learning to read or to simply listen to the tale. They combine the benefits of audiobooks to the wonderful, tactile feel of real, paper books.

PRINCESSEdlin, a girl, nicknamed Princess by her family, is a sweet, kind, and somewhat awkward thirteen-year-old. She is out-going among her friends but nervous and shy around strangers. Princess' family lives in a small, rural village in southwest England, or Wessex as it was then known. Her people are trying to survive starvation, marauding wolves, and extermination from something bent on killing them all.That changes in March, 694 when they rescue a stranger named Cynegils. His presence disrupts their lives as he slowly heals and they fall in love. By summer, he is strong enough to leave, and Princess must embark upon two journeys. One is to the ruined castle which they fled seven years ago to discover why the villagers must always remain hidden from the world. The second is to return Cynegils to his people and to ensure that their small community remains secret.These are the first times Princess has ever left their small, hidden valley and the journeys are arduous with threats of wild animals and highwaymen. The greatest dangers, however, lie in their destinations. Princess must decide whether to follow her heart and leave with Cynegils or to return to seclusion with her family, but none of them may survive the summer.In the end, the fate of twenty refugees depends upon the strength, courage, and untapped capabilities of a young woman who must confront powerful adversaries to save her people.

The enchanted planet Mearth's magic is failing, but an ancient tale prophesizes that five heroes from another world will restore it by retrieving seven mystical talismans. Of course, the ruling families who rely upon those relics for their power will stop at nothing to retain their possessions.Mark Panagopoulos is a 13-year-old boy from Cincinnati who often dreams about fantasy and magic. However, his dreams have begun to meld with the mind of a boy living on Mearth to form the hero Stavius.Stavius and his friends will have to battle dragons, werewolves, vampires, and human armies to fulfill the prophecy, and time is running out. The five heroes must accomplish their quest before their next birthdays, and their parents insist that they also have to survive the eighth grade.To make matters worse, three of the prophecy heroes left before Mark began dreaming of Stavius and are now missing. Stavius has to find his companions to fulfill the prophecy and to warn them about an unanticipated danger. Mark suspects that if any heroes perish in their Mearth dreams, their slumbering counterparts will die in real life on Earth. The kids’ fanciful adventure has suddenly become very real.Stavius is the first book in The Chronicles of Mearth trilogy. Be sure to read the other two, The Lachians and Prophecy, to follow the entire, epic saga.

An excerpt:Colonel Tempest and his miniature ten-year-old replica of himself had made themselves as comfortable as circumstances would permit in opposite corners of the smoking carriage. It was a chilly morning in April, and the boy had wrapped himself in his travelling rug, and turned up his little collar, and drawn his soft little travelling cap over his eyes in exact, though unconscious, imitation of his father. Colonel Tempest looked at him now and then with paternal complacency. It is certainly a satisfaction to see ourselves repeated in our children. We feel that the type will not be lost. Each new edition of ourselves lessens a natural fear lest a work of value and importance should lapse out of print.Colonel Tempest at forty was still very handsome, and must, as a young man, have possessed great beauty before the character had had time to assert itself in the face--before selfishness had learned to look out of the clear gray eyes, and a weak self-indulgence and irresolution had loosened the well-cut lips.

La pire des mésalliances est celle du cœur. C Colonel Tempest looked at him now and then with paternal complacency. It is certainly a satisfaction to see ourselves repeated in our children. We feel that the type will not be lost. Each new edition of ourselves lessens a natural fear lest a work of value and importance should lapse out of print. Colonel Tempest at forty was still very handsome; and must, as a young man, have possessed great beauty before the character had had time to assert itself in the face; before selfishness had learned to look out of the clear grey eyes, and a weak self-indulgence and irresolution had loosened the well-cut lips

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