New Kids’ Book Gets Nod as New Age Harry Potter: Mary Baker and The Eye of the Tiger

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. - Aug. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- New Kids’ Book Gets Nod as New Age Harry Potter: Mary Baker and The Eye of the Tiger

“A New-Age tale of surrendering to God’s will packaged as a Hogwarts-like adventure.”

         - Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews finds newly released young adult book something children who loved Harry Potter might enjoy: “...young readers may appreciate the world of spirits and strange creatures found at a magic school.”

The new book, which has been getting 5-star reviews from kids, teens and adults, follows  Mary Baker, 10, from a miserable start in life on an adventure of self-discovery of one’s own powers and heroic capabilities in the face of adversity and challenge. Mary Baker is an American heroine who, with three best friends and a lovable cockatoo, finds that God brings solutions to life’s problems in sometimes unusual ways.  

“In Cherubim’s debut YA novel, a young, abused girl discovers magic in her life as she inherits wealth and a position at a school for the spiritually gifted.

Mary Baker, who spends hours locked in a closet by her abusive mother, mourns when the kind grandfather she hardly knew dies. When Mary inherits Grandpa Hal’s haunted orchard, as well as his hidden wealth and an important stone, her mother takes the battle to court—and Mary begins a happier life in the custody of her grandfather’s friends, who run the orchard. Just as she adjusts to a better circumstances, she is whisked off to the White Light Center, a New-Age school where she learns how to communicate with spirits and surrender to God.

...The supernatural subplots bear some similarity to the Harry Potter series, but those concerned about witchcraft in Rowling’s tales might appreciate the God-centered focus here (although the magic itself is divorced from religion and dependent on crystals). The magical practice—talking to good spirits, shunning evil ones and consulting the Holy Spirits—may attract readers itching for such adventures. Author Cherubim imaginatively renders key factors in her spiritual system—surrendering to the will of

God—throughout the novel, initially in Mary’s first swimming lessons and later as a deus ex avis, when some of Mary’s problems are solved, just as she has given up solving them, by her parrot.”

BOOK INFORMATION:

AUTHOR WEBSITE: http://DMCherubim.com

CONTACT: dmcherubim@gmail.com

TITLE: Mary Baker and The Eye of the Tiger

ASIN: B00BR4LZAC

ISBN-13: 978-1482659696