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    The Secret Child
    The Secret Child
    The Secret Child
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    The Secret Child

    By AJ Ponder

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    Young Jonathan Goodfellow and his father set out to rescue children from slavers with the help of the Bairnsley University underground. Things go from bad to impossible when a raiding party of thurgles - huge giant-like creatures - and their hellhounds get there first. Then the Bairnsley University wizards fail to arrive. Will the Goodfellows save the children? Or will Jonathan become a slave himself?

    "The Secret Child" is a read-alone prequel to Quest (Book 1 The Sylvalla Prophecies)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAJ Ponder
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9780463610930
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    AJ Ponder

    A.J. Ponder has a head full of monsters, and recklessly spills them out onto the written page. Beware dragons, dreadbeasts, taniwha, and small children - all are equally as dangerous, and all are capable of treading on your heart, or tearing it, still beating, from your chest.

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      The Secret Child - AJ Ponder

      The Secret Child

      TOP SECRET

      Senior Staff only

      By order of F Fraderghast

      Chief Historian, Bairnsley University

      This historical document of Jonathan and Mr Goodfellow senior is of a private and confidential nature. If you are reading it without permission, I will track you down and make you do a week’s laundry for the entire university. More than that, your memory of the preceding year will be wiped, and yes, if you sat an exam, you will be repeating it. Imagine all that work going up in soap-bubbles.

      Jonathan

      NAME: Jonathan

      CLASS: None.

      SPECIALTY: Getting into trouble.

      RÉSUMÉ: At ten, Jonathan is still young for his age and although he is showing an aptitude for magic, he’s showing an equal aptitude for failing to realise his magical ability. It is a special skill that is driving his father, the renowned wizard Capro Goodfellow Senior, a little crazy.

      PASSED: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Swordsmanship. He has shown some skill at potions, including Granny’s Special Cure All and Sleepy Night-Night Powder.

      Jonathan fidgeted. Trumpets and cheers echoed up and down the street outside.

      Focus! Mr Goodfellow Senior thundered, his voice echoing through the tiny attic. Son, I’m selling you into slavery in an hour’s time, and if you’re going to get out again safely, you have to focus.

      I don’t want to sit around here. Not today, Jonathan moaned. Can’t you hear? Everyone’s out celebrating. He peeked out the window. Was that the King’s carriage in the distance?

      This is not a game, his father harrumphed. "It’s life and death. Potsie, High Wizard in charge of prophecies, and new leader of the wizards UN D’Ground, was adamant, tonight is the last night to save his prophesied Secret Child…all the children. And you’re not ready."

      It’s easy. I blow the snooze powder, they go to sleep, and then I pick the lock, and ta dah! We’re all out, and the children live happily ever after.

      Hmmph, Mr Goodfellow Senior said again. You need to remember how to keep track of time, so you know when to move.

      "But I want to move now. I’m missing out on the fun. There will be jugglers and all sorts of entertainers. Last time sweets were thrown into the crowd.

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