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Gray Locke: The Witch of Clover Hill
Category:
Children
Publisher: Satellite 2 Music
ISBN-10: 0984363319
Type: Fiction
Pages: 228
Copyright: December 5, 2010
ISBN-13: 9780984363315
In The Witch of Clover Hill, there’s a great deal brewing in the witch’s cauldron. Gray Locke’s ten-year-old imagination shines through as he goes about trying to demystify luck, ghosts, and witches.
The story begins at his home in Marlborough, Massachusetts. There, he shows his friends, Doug and Kevin, a four-leaf clover that he found. That sparks a competition between Gray and Doug over who can gain the most luck, using such charms as a stray eye-lash, rabbit’s foot, lucky penny, and lucky mibs.
Then the story takes a turn when the boys meet the new kid, Mandy. Can they all be friends? When Mandy introduces her best friend, P.J., to the group, that question is put to the test.
Then P.J. and the gang stumbled upon an old Ouija board game, and she convinces the others that they need the assistance of a witch to help make contact with someone from Gray’s past.
While the witch’s cauldron is brewing with lucky charms and Ouija boards, Gray’s aunt brings him a gift. And that gift opened up an entire new universe for Gray. Using his spaceship of the imagination–Mox–he becomes an intergalactic ranger and soars off to compete in a championship Super Shooter tournament. But he soon discovers that he got a little more than he bargained for. In order for him to win the tournament, he has to face witches, monkey-boys, rats, a worm, and a host of other entities.
Using his imagination and intuition, Gray finds creative solutions to the challenges that lie ahead of him, both in the universe of his imagination and in the real world.
This book is the second of a series of stories inviting readers to glimpse into the life and times of this original character – from his childhood through to adulthood. The Witch of Clover Hill is geared for ten to fourteen-year-olds.
Excerpt
Gray Locke sat in the stillness of his attic room–whispering between breaths–Longfellow . . . Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination . . . Macbeth . . . Treasure Island . . . The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was perusing the book titles lined up on the shelf, running his fingers across their bumpy spines, eagerly searching for a book whose title slipped his mind.
The book contained a four-leaf clover that he’d found over the summer while visiting his grandparents in Western Massachu¬setts. His Grandmother Windsor put it in a glassine envelope that postage stamps used to come in, and then placed it between the pages of a book she’d read as a child and handed down to him. She told him to keep the clover pressed between its pages for a few weeks until it was completely dried,and then later he could put it in a picture frame or in a bookmark sleeve.
When Gray returned home, he stored the book up in his attic room, hoping that the warm, dry air would help speed up the dry¬ing process. However, Gray had forgotten the book’s title. All he could remember was that it was written by someone who once lived not too far from where he grew up–only a very long time ago.
Gray liked books. And he had lots of them. The books up in his attic room were consi¬dered classics–and would remain so. That’s because the stories themselves stood the test of time and were still read and enjoyed today–despite having been written long ago.
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