C. Lee McKenzie Cover Reveal-Sign of the Green Dragon Novel
Summary: When a wall of their cave hideout crumbles, three boys discover a skeleton, clutching a treasure map. They set off to trace the story of an old murder, but stumble into a modern crime, and confront ancient Chinese dragons.
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C. Lee McKenzie
“Sign of the Green Dragon”
Releasing August 2, 2016, Available For Pre-Order
This hasn’t been the best year for Sam, and it just got worse. Right when he thought he’d found a permanent home, his finicky guardian tells him he’s shipping Sam off to private school. This means Sam won’t bat for his team, and if he doesn’t, Haggarty Elementary won’t win the baseball championship again this year. His two teammates, Joey and Roger, are determined to stash him in their secret cave—at least until he brings in the winning run.
While the boys explore the hideout, an earthquake crumbles a wall, revealing a hidden room—and it’s not empty. A dragon-carved chest opens to reveal a human skeleton, its hand-bones clutching a note with a crudely drawn map. At the top of the map is scribbled, 1859.
Sam, Joey and Roger learn about a treasure lying in wait, if only they can locate something called the Dragon Twin, reveal the truth about an old murder, and return a person named Mei Ling to her ancestors in China.
The boys are up for the challenge. But how? They only have the map showing the way to an old mining town, and some strange symbols they can’t understand. None of them can make sense of the note. Who’s Mei Ling? And what the heck is a Dragon Twin?
With time running out before he’s sent packing, Sam and his friends set out on an adventure that has much higher stakes than any baseball championship—one that gets them into trouble with a modern crime, pits them against ancient Chinese dragons, and reveals the true meaning of treasure for each of them.
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C. Lee McKenzie Bio
C. Lee McKenzie has a background in Linguistics and Inter-Cultural Communication. Her greatest passion is writing for young readers. Sign of the Green Dragon is her third Middle-Grade novel. Alligators Overhead and the sequel, The Great Time Lock Disaster were her first two. Her four young adult novels are Sliding on the Edge, The Princess of Las Pulgas, Double Negative, and Sudden Secrets. She lives in California on the edge of a redwood forest with her husband.
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Love the cover! And it already has amazing review on Goodreads, congratulations C. Lee!
Looks awesome, Lee. A huge congratulations!
Congrats on the upcoming release! What a great cover and intriguing story. Wishing you all the best!
Congratulations to Lee! It’s a fantastic book.
Very intriguing cover! The mystery sounds great, too!
The artist surprised me by getting the design exactly right the first time out.
Love love the cover Lee! Really reveals what a fun mystery adventure this is!
Thanks, Donna! That’s huge coming from someone who has read the story.
Thank you Juneta for the super post! This book has been a long time coming!
Thank you for sharing it with me. I look forward to reading it. Love the cover. Let me know if there is anything else I can do, Sorry we missed our window in April, but this build another exciting month for you. Wishing you much success.
It’s a really awesome cover!
Thank, Alex! Why aren’t you resting after the #atozChallenge marathon? 🙂