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The
Earth-Two Adventures
by
John K. LaShell
You may
purchase these books in paperback or Kindle format from Amazon.com, or you may get a copy from me for a lower
price (JKLaShell@godisbeautiful.com
or JKLaShell@gmail.com).
VOLUME 1
From the Preface
I
wrote this series of adventures in the years 1999 and 2000 while I was teaching
the first through sixth graders on Wednesday evenings. At that time, our group
of children all regularly attended Sunday school where they received a solid
background in Bible. Not wanting to duplicate their Sunday school instruction,
I used these stories to paint a picture of the kind of young people I wanted
them to become. The children in these stories learn to depend on God’s
word as they face increasingly difficult and dangerous challenges. Those
children from my Wednesday night group are now young adults, and over the
years, they have continued to encourage me to publish these stories. Now, at
last, I have an opportunity to do so.
All
over the world, people seek to control the world around them with magical
words. At one level, this is a deluded attempt to imitate the power of
God’s creative words. On the other hand, where there is smoke there is
sometimes fire. Perhaps behind all the folly of magic there is a vague racial
remembrance of a gift God gave to Adam and Eve. Is it possible that God
intended them to use the Mother of all languages to exercise dominion over the
earth and its creatures? That is the idea on which these stories are based. The
separate but sequential stories in volume 1 are as follows.
The Vortex
Three children (Harold, Susan, and William) accidentally find
their way into a parallel Earth where the language God gave to Adam and Eve is
still spoken. With this language people are able to do amazing things. When the
children are captured by an Earth-Two rebel named Hagen, their parents and an
Earth-Two ranger must try to rescue them. At the end of this story, the ranger
Ulysses makes arrangements for the children to be instructed in the Mother
Tongue.
The Voyage
Harold, Susan, and William foil a plot by Hagen to kidnap
children, send them to Mexico on and Earth-Two ship, and sell them. In order to
do this, they must undertake a dangerous sea voyage with two would-be sailors
who have never been out of San Francisco Bay.
The Village
Ulysses, sends Harold, Susan, and William to spend the summer
in an Earth-Two village. Their assignment is to uncover a plot that is
threatening Earth-Two’s ruling council. They seem to be perfect for the
job. After all, who would suspect three children of being spies? And what might
happen if they were suspected? In the village they meet a mysterious woman
called the Grandmother who is potentially their greatest ally or their worst
enemy.
VOLUME 2
The Witch
While Susan is recovering from a shooting at school, the
mother of a girl whose life she saved tries to convert her to the Wiccan
religion. Her family is deeply concerned about her growing distance from them,
but what can they do to reach her?
The Wardell-Oon
The three children must face the dreadful Wardell-Oon, the
creature-without-a-name. If it has no name, it cannot be subdued by using the
Mother-Tongue. The identity of the Grandmother is revealed, but is she too weak
to help them now?
The
Winter
When their beloved teacher, the Grandmother, dies, the
children must return to public school, with disastrous consequences. The
children are no longer able to hide the amazing things they have learned to do
through the use of the Mother Tongue. As a result the jealousy, suspicion, and
hatred of an old enemy threaten to put an end to their freedom.
VOLUME 3
In these stories, Harold,
Susan, and William are on loan from Earth-Two’s ruling council to serve
the President of the United States.
Extraction
The President sends the
children to rescue a young prince of Oman from terrorists who are trying to
start a war on the Arabian penninsula. They return home with Aisha, a Muslim
girl who wants to become a Christian.
Exchange
William must risk his life to
save the life of the President. Aisha can sustain William’s life for a
while, but both of them will be lost if Harold cannot bring help in time.
Exeunt
Aisha faces great danger as
she returns to her village to tell her people about Christ. Then she goes to
India to help the others on their last mission for the President.
VOLUME 4 – This is Z End (and a
beginning)
Unlike the earlier volumes this book
contains one longer story. For the first time, the three young rangers are sent
on separate missions. Though Aisha is not a ranger she accompanies Susan, and
it is a good thing she does! When their friend Ulysses is in danger, they must
race through Earth-Two from widely separated parts of the globe in an effort to
rescue him and the last remaining faithful member of the Ruling Council. I
think you will find the concluding chapters to be a fitting climax to this
whole series of adventures.