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Summary

​A group of kids travel to alternate worlds and into a past where mythological creatures like mermaids, fairies, and dragons still exist. Fast paced and humorous, these fantasies with a pseudo-time travel feel have great characters and whimsical adventures. Each novel contains two books from the series. ​

Stats

Genre: Midgrade (8-12 years) fantasy adventure with a psuedo-time travel feel

Series length: 8 books, with two books contained within each book.

Violence: Moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Moderate supernatural, most of which is related to non-human characters (e.g. a water sprite or a dragon) plus lots of cool MacGyver-styled technology!

Romance: None 

Christian/spiritual element: Subtle allegorical elements

Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who love adventure and humor, or need a fast read

You might like this book if you liked... 
Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan or MacGyver-styled adventures

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Opening Lines:

A sad thing happens to most people when they grow up. As their bodies get bigger, their imaginations get smaller. In time, their imaginations become so tiny and timid that they are afraid to go out alone. That's why kids have always been the greatest explorers. And among the greatest of them all are Matterhorn the Brave and his friends. 

Matterhorn is a brave knight, when he isn't busy being a twelve-year-old-boy. 

Few people have heard of him, which isn't surprising, for most of his adventures happened in other times and places. And like all who know how to travel, he has learned to do so without drawing attention to himself. He and his friends have been around the globe, under the earth and over the moon. Not bad for kids who don't even have driver's licenses.

The Sword and the Flute/Talis Hunters
(Matterhorn the Brave, Book 1)
by Mike Hamel

When heretics murder the king of First Realm, a mirror world of Earth, his daughter, Queen Bea, recruits twelve-year-old Matthew Horn and others to find the Ten Talis. The heretics need these sacred objects for their scheme to take over the world by rewriting its history.

The Sword and the Flute
Matthew Horn is summoned to First Realm by the Sword of Truth. His trip through a portal instantly matures him to adulthood. He will need his new muscles to stay alive when he goes with veteran Traveler, Aaron the Baron, to medieval Ireland where they come up against kidnappers, bounty hunters, wraiths and the shadowy Bonehand. The only thing more exciting than the quest is what it leads to next!

Talis Hunters
Matterhorn and the Baron travel 10,000 years into the past to Mount St. Helens in search of the Band of Justice. They meet up with Princess Jewel, a Native American girl who animals, and Nate the Great, an Aboriginal tracker with the ability to disappear. The way to the secret city of the Sasquatch where the Band is guarded is a fight for survival amidst raging rivers, towering waterfalls and deadly volcanoes!

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Matterhorn didn't have time to protect his face from being smashed into stone. But instead of hard rock, he felt a tightening slick surface as if he were being shrink-wrapped in plastic.

He could not move.

He could not breathe.

​He was trapped between moments, suspended in time. 

Pyramid Scheme / Jewel Heist
(Matterhorn the Brave, Book 2)
by Mike Hamel

When heretics murder the king of First Realm, a mirror world of Earth, his daughter, Queen Bea, recruits twelve-year-old Matthew Horn and others to find the Ten Talis. The heretics need these sacred objects for their scheme to take over the world by rewriting its history.

Pyramid Scheme
Matterhorn and his friends are saved from certain death and transported to the Valley of the Kings by two strangers from First Realm. Follow the Travelers from the City of the Dead to the secret tunnels beneath Karnak Temple; a trip that almost becomes a one-way journey when the Travelers Cube is stolen in broad daylight and assassins attack in the dead of night. Not to mention the cobras and crocodiles!

Jewel Heist
When Princess Jewel is kidnapped, Matterhorn and the Baron jump into the Bermuda Triangle to save her?and arrive in time to make the lunch menu of a tiger shark! Sara, the water nymph, gets them safely to an island, which belongs to fierce cannibals. Nate the Great and Queen Bea show up to help but a category-5 hurricane ruins their first rescue plan and their next try puts the entire planet in peril!

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Across the room, a second set of intruders arrived in a flying heap. Thanks to the enlarged traveling field Etham left in his wake, all four Travelers made it through. The Baron heaved a sigh of relief at the familiar surroundings. The Cub's default setting had worked!

Taking no chances with this bunch, the Praetorian shot forward and grabbed an armful of bodies.

"What are you doing?" demanded a second Praetorian from the hall.

"Seizing intruders," the first answered.

Dragon's Lair / Rylan the Renegade
(Matterhorn the Brave, Book 3)
by Mike Hamel

When heretics murder the king of First Realm, a mirror world of Earth, his daughter, Queen Bea, recruits twelve-year-old Matthew Horn and others to find the Ten Talis. The heretics need these sacred objects for their scheme to take over the world by rewriting its history.

Dragon’s Lair
The Travelers chase a heretic named Etham to China and land in the lair of Yu the dragon. Etham’s trail leads to the royal court of Zheng, the boy destined to become the First August Emperor of China. Kyl and Elok arrive from Egypt to help the Travelers, but one is killed and the other disappears. The same dire fate threatens Matterhorn and his friends. Only a daring deception, a harrowing escape and a quirky court jester give them any chance of survival!

Rylan the Renegade
Queen Bea takes the Travelers deep into the Greenland icecap to find the one man who may be able to help save Earth—her uncle. Rylan the Renegade is the former Crown Prince who left First Realm before Bea was born, but he wants nothing to do with his past. The secrets of his Talis, his Travel Suit and his access to the Terminus Room hold the keys to the Traveler’s survival—and the Earth’s future!

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Opening Lines:

Rylan somersaulted across the tan carpet and bounced to his feet, senses on full alert. "Where are we?" he demanded.

"The Propylon," Bea said with relief. "Welcome home."

Still tense, Rylan said, "I do not recognize this room."

"It used to be storage space," the Baron said. "The Queen lets me use it for a workshop. We're not far from the Earth Room."

Rylan had mixed feelings about being back. He had never expected to see the Propylon again. 

Tunguska Event / The Book of Stories
(Matterhorn the Brave, Book 4)
by Mike Hamel

When heretics murder the king of First Realm, a mirror world of Earth, his daughter, Queen Bea, recruits twelve-year-old Matthew Horn and others to find the Ten Talis. The heretics need these sacred objects for their scheme to take over the world by rewriting its history.
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​Tunguska Event
Matterhorn and his friends travel to Siberia to try and prevent the largest natural disaster in history--and fail! The Tunguska Event destroys thousands of miles of forest and hurtles Matterhorn and Nate into the distant past. They must walk to the nearest portal more than 2,000 miles away. With the help of Nifer the fairy and Ebenezer the camel, they brave the unforgiving wilderness with its horrific heat and murderous Mongols.

The Book of Stories
The thrilling conclusion of the battle for Earth's future takes place in 1983 at Fermilab, location of the most powerful machine in the world. The heretics are set to become the unchallenged rulers of the planet, and only the Travelers stand in their way. Who wins, and how we know the story, is tied to the most important revelation of all: the identity of the Tenth Talis!