The Grass Haired Girl
Pages: 202
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14 x 9.21 in
Pages: 228
Sometimes, being a hero sucks. Especially when you're a total noob.
Cody Stone wants to be a hero more than anything. The problem is: he doesn't know how. His favorite fantasy books and movies say heroes are always special "chosen ones" but Cody knows he's not special, and he's never been chosen for anything (unless you count being picked last for pretty much everything.)
When Cody somehow becomes the target of a shapeshifting hunter straight out of the fairy tales, he is rescued by a magical girl with grass-green hair who introduces him to a secret world of magic that coexists with his own.
Now, Cody struggles to balance two lives and two worlds: the boring, farm-town community of Angusville, Illinois, and the mythical world of Terra Lumina. Along the way, he has to deal with neighborhood bullies, abusive parents, seventh-grade algebra, interdimensional police, and even a mischievous trickster god he acidentally summons. All while learning how to defend himself from an other-worldly monster that wants to kill him - or worse.
The Grass Haired Girl is Book One of the Griefborn Cycle - a modern Young Adult (YA) fantasy set in the rural Midwest U.S. that is all about an ordinary boy desperate to be a fantasy hero, and an extraordinary girl desperate to be anything else.
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A red dawn began far away, slowly illuminating disturbing shapes covering the ground. The dim orange sun broke over the horizon, shining on a landscape covered deep by the bones of the dead. A skeleton in a t-shirt, blue jeans, and biker boots pulled itself noisily from the mass and advanced on him.
“Look!” It commanded. “Look around you, Cody Stone. See the fate that waits for wanna-be heroes.”
It grabbed Cody by his shirt in a bony fist and hauled him into the air off of a couch made of skulls.
“Are you prepared for pain?” It asked him. “For loneliness. For heartache.” Its empty eye sockets fixed on Cody’s eyes. “Are you prepared for death?”
It dropped him to the ground. Bones cracked and slipped beneath him and he fell, poked and scraped by jagged ends and edges.
“You want to be a hero?” The skeleton asked. “Go for it.”
An enormous stone pierced by a glowing sword pushed its way out of the skeletal litter.
READ MORE“You know how this works. Be my guest. Draw the sword from the stone and see if it makes you a hero.”
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