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Sara's ordinary life in Santa Rosa, California, is predictable, and the prospect of spending summer recess from school doesn't fill her with excitement, even though she can spend time with her close friend, Rilee. Then Rilee offers her the opportunity to spend time on her dad's sail boat off the California coast. They can sunbathe on deck and watch the wildlife at sea... Unexpectedly - and inexplicably - they find themselves thrust into a magical world, walking in the footsteps of legendary figures from American folklore. Surrounded by giant redwood trees, travelling a 'superhighway' beneath the ground, and shooting the rapids on a fast-flowing river, they experience the most extraordinary and exciting adventures... Where are they? What has happened to them - and will they ever get home again?

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Born in 1946 in the West Riding of Yorkshire's coal fields around Wakefield, he attended grammar school, where he enjoyed sport rather more than academic work. After three years at teacher training college in Leeds, he became a teacher in 1967. He spent a lot of time during his teaching career entertaining children of all ages, a large part of which was through telling stories, and encouraging them to escape into a world of imagination and wonder. Some of his most disturbed youngsters he found to be very talented poets, for example. He has always had a wicked sense of humour, which has blossomed only during the time he has spent with his wife, Denise. This sense of humour also allowed many youngsters to survive often difficult and brutalising home environments. In 2006, he retired after forty years working in schools with young people who had significantly disrupted lives because of behaviour disorders and poor social adjustment, generally brought about through circumstances beyond their control. At the same time as moving from leafy lane suburban middle-class school teaching in Leeds to residential schooling for emotional and behavioural disturbance in the early 1990s, changed family circumstance provided the spur to achieve ambitions. Supported by his wife, Denise, he achieved a Master of Education degree in his mid-forties and a PhD at the age of fifty-six, because he had always wanted to do so.

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