Sartorias-deles: Modern (Kids-Eye View)

These books' original drafts were written when I was a kid. Kids are at the center, though they end up involved in world events. When I typed them up from the handwritten notebooks decades later, I tried hard to preserve the kid perspective while rewriting them.

The CJ Notebooks are the earliest, the first stories dating back to when I was eight years old. There were 21 notebooks, but a lot of the stories were better summed up in a sentence, or referred to. I kept the ones that contributed to the long arc--or were the most fun.

Mearsies Heili Bounces Back

When Sherwood Smith was eight years old, she had dreams about a girl queen who traveled between worlds, looking for girls who loved adventure. Clair came to Earth, where she found CJ, and adopted her as her princess best friend. One of her jobs was to serve as leader for Clair’s gang of girls, as they encountered villains who thought it would be...

Spy Princess

12-year-old aristo Lilah asks, Why are the kingdom’s magic spells are fading? But her uncle the king only wants a stronger army. Why are the kids outside the palace gates ragged and hungry?

But the king keeps raising taxes. Her older brother Peitar, the king’s heir, spends more time writing mysterious letters than talking to her. And her father...

Sartor

Book #3 from the series: Sartorias-deles: Modern (Kids-Eye View)

In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, still trying to get used to her new status, teams up with Atan, the last descendent of the rulers of Sartor, the oldest country in the world. At fifteen, she has to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment.

This is Atan's origin story.

Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient beings,...

Senrid

Book #3 from the series: Sartorias-deles: Modern (Kids-Eye View)

In this fantasy prequel to A STRANGER TO COMMAND, the kids on the good side are united in one thing: regarding Senrid as a villain.

So what do you do when you’re fifteen, supposedly king of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, but all you have on your side are wit, will, and maybe a few skills?

And what if the people you like best are...

Friend, And . . .

CJ's Notebooks III
Book #3 from the series: Sartorias-deles: Modern (Kids-Eye View)

First written when Sherwood Smith was a teen, the series called CJ’s Notebooks feature a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don’t ask first if the girls want to be dragged into...

Hunt Across Worlds

First written when Sherwood Smith was a teen, the series called CJ's Notebooks feature a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don't ask first if the girls want to be dragged into...

Poor World!

CJ and the gang of girls from Mearsies Heili like their adventures fun and villains to be defeatable by a well-thrown prune pie. In fact, they laughed at the very idea of stories about kids who have to Save the World . . .

Until it happens to them.

Written when Sherwood Smith was a teenager, this is the story of the M girls up against the toughest...

Fleeing Peace

Siamis said, “Your young friend Liere is not going to enjoy the trap she’s walking into, I fear. But you figured that out, did you not? Why didn’t she listen to you?” “To snap her fingers under your nose,” Senrid retorted.”Irresistible.” Siamis smiled gently. “But it’s going to cost.” Fifteen-year-old Senrid is newly king of the difficult...