Los Angeles – Kids who loved Eragon, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter will likely be mesmerized by Patrick Carman’s The Dark Hills Divide, the riveting first volume in his new Land of Elyon trilogy for young readers.

The Walla Walla author will visit Richland on January 22, 2004, to speak to the entire student body at Sacajawea Elementary School.

Carman will also meet with and sign books for young readers at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at the Columbia Street Mall on Thursday, January 23rd, at 6 pm.For more information about this event, please call (509) 736-3116.

Carman is a successful entrepreneur who conceived the Land of Elyon series after trading places with his wife one night a week while she got out of the house and he took over reading to their two young daughters. As the months passed, Carman began spinning a tale for them about the escapades of a young girl who became the inspiration for the novel’s heroine.

In the year that followed, Carman “journaled” his thoughts and sketched out impressions about the characters and place that would become The Land of Elyon. Then, in his spare time between running a national media production company and his ongoing commitment as a volunteer counselor to teens, Carman began to write.

The Land of Elyon Book I: The Dark Hills Divide is set in a fantasy world in which animals can talk and enchanted stones can predict the future. The heroine, a 12-year-old girl named Alexa, has spent her life living behind the four-story walls that surround her village and the three others that make up Bridewell Common. Even the roads between the towns are walled in to keep its citizens safe from the unknown. But Alexa’s curiosity for what lies in the hills and forests on the other side sends her on a daring adventure into a secret world in which nothing is as it seems to be.

Ideal for readers 9-12, the lush story is filled with mystery, unforgettable characters, intriguing plot twists, and moral issues that are relevant to their own lives.

For more information about the book, please go to www.LandofElyon.com.

The Land of Elyon Book I: The Dark Hills Divide (Amped Media, $11.95) is currently available through Barnes & Noble at Columbia Street Mall and other local bookstores.

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