nelson telson the story of a true blue blue blood
I am seeking a publisher for my middle grade novel, NELSON TELSON, THE STORY OF A TRUE BLUE BLOOD.
Painfully shy and lonely, eleven-year-old Mariah Miller hates being a human; she’d rather be an animal so she wouldn’t have to go to school and deal with mean old Mrs. Tarbox and her nasty cousin, Travis, who has invaded her life. Enchantment abounds when she finds a magic spearhead on the beach that allows her to talk to a wise old horseshoe crab and a host of other animals. Her father becomes seriously ill, and throughout her trials in the real world, she is often surprised by the unpredictable power of the spearhead. As she travels through time and space, and listens to the wisdom of creatures and people, Mariah makes leaps in her own personal growth, learns how perspective creates reality and what it really means to be human.
Her journeys in and around the waters of Duxbury, Massachusetts include a trip to the ice age, learning about cooperation from a flock of geese, taking a lesson from Crow about the gift of giving, and flying across the bay on the back of a comical heron to the first Thanksgiving. What does all this have to do with a horseshoe crab? To quote Nelson, “We're 'fifth business' in the great dramas of the earth, always in the background, never starring in a leading role, but many stories could not unfold or conclude without us.”
At 44,250 words diced up into fourteen chapters, it’s an accessible book for ages eight and up.