Books with title The Witchtree Journals: Emily's Story

Children's fiction for girls age 10 -14 years.A TIME TRAVEL MYSTERY story of friendship, family and myth.Fourteen year old Rosalie Green has been having strange visions ever since the girl her sixth birthday in 1953 when the young girl had given her that old key. The girl had then walked down the garden and vanished. But Rosalie believes that she sees her in the visions. And in one of these - a bloody snow covered scene - the girl is being girl murdered. Rosalie’s beloved grandfather, Harry Storme, dies and leaves Rosalie his old journal and a new one for herself, in keeping with the Storme family’s tradition of journal writing together with the telling of stories about ‘Guardian Angel’ wood nymphs. Harry himself had always insisted that the spirit nymphs really did live in the woods behind his house. Grief stricken after Harry’s death, and tormented by her visions, Rosalie reaches out to the wood nymphs for assistance to search for the girl and to prevent her murder. Rosalie’s story becomes entwined with that of Kyrenius, a mysterious boy god who helps her in her quest. Kyrenius and Rosalie begin to fall in love, but what can become of such a romance? And will Rosalie ever find the girl and save her life?

Children's fantasy for girls age 10 - 14 years old. An enchanting time lapse mystery adventure which blends mythology, history and family saga.Emily Millar records her struggle to deal with growing up in a complicated extended family, in her new journal - a thirteenth birthday present from her grandma. To her amazement the journal pages turn into a magic portal from which a strange boy, Jake, materialises. Together they jump into the portal and back in time. Emily needs to discover who she really is, and to find a mysterious key before she can return home again.Plunged into all manner of adventures with her 19th and 20th Century ancestors - who include English aristocrats and Americans - Emily must protect them, and her own future existence, by fighting the shape-shifting Magipies. She also enjoys her first romantic encounter. Jake stays by her side throughout her journey, and the fabled wood nymphs of her grandma’s stories are never far away.Emily unearths the lost key, and discovers that it opens the lock on a long forgotten old trunk. What she finds inside will affect her life forever. She returns to the 21st Century, but it’s only once safely back with her beloved grandma that she realises it was the people, young and old, whose worlds she had entered, and the adventures she has shared with them, which have changed her more profoundly even than the incredible secret in the trunk.But she still has the biggest surprise of all to come!