Ghost Leopard:: A Zoe & Zak Adventure

Ghost Leopard: A Zoe & Zak Adventure 

By:: Lars Guignard

Publisher:: Fantastic Press
Pages:: 340 pages
Price:: $9.99

ISBN:: 978-0987775368
Type:: Children 

 About the Author

 

Lars Guignard is the bestselling author of four novels, including the spy thriller series: Lethal Circuit & Blown Circuit, the paranormal detective series: Brood, and the middle grade magic adventure series: Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard.

Lars Guignard is a former film and television writer and graduate of both McGill University and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Ever since attending high school in the Indian Himalayas, Lars has been an avid backpacker and traveler. He now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest where he is busy completing the second Zoe & ZAk adventure  for release in Spring 2013.

His blog can be found at larsguignard.com where he discusses his new projects and technology’s impact on writing.

                                       Excerpt

    There were reasons we didn’t know each other that well. For one thing, Zak was a boy and I had too many girlfriends to bother hanging out with boys. For another thing, as should be obvious, I thought Zak was a class-A jerk. He was always a bit of a troublemaker and I didn’t like to make trouble or get into trouble. All in all, we just weren’t two people who hung out. I realized in that moment, however, that this was all about to change in a big way. Zak was here and we were a long way from home, which meant that Zak was going to want to hang out with me whether I liked it or not. I could hope he wouldn’t, but if this incident with the tree was any indication, I doubted that he was going to leave me alone. So much for relaxing, I thought. Things were about to get complicated.

About the Book::

Imagine you're totally lost in a strange city with no idea where you are and no way home.

Now imagine that elephants and snake charmers start telling you that you've been chosen to save the world.

Would you even believe them?  What would you do?

Zoe Guire isn't sure. Having that elephant talk to her was really weird, and, as a rule, Zoe doesn't do weird. Except the thing is, when Zoe goes along on her mom's business trip to India, things get very weird, very quickly. Soon after she arrives, Zoe finds herself tagging alongside a kid named Zak, lost in a crazy city, with no money and no way home.

And those are the least of Zoe's troubles. Because if she's to believe the scary-looking snake charmer guy sitting in the corner, she and Zak have been chosen -- chosen to protect some kind of mythical animal called the Ghost Leopard from who knows what. 

Now, the further they get into the mountains, the more crazily impossible things get. Carpets fly and statues talk and if either Zoe or Zak want to make it back to their parents, or the sixth grade, or anything even close to normal, they're going to have to make some new friends, learn some new tricks, and listen, really listen to that talking elephant. Because if they don't, the world will never be the same again.

Join Zoe and Zak as they journey high into the Himalayas to a place few have been and even fewer have returned to tell about it.

Live life beyond the edge.

My Thoughts::
When choosing a new book for me to read to my son or for him to practice reading I choose a book that I know that we would enjoy reading. When we first started reading the book it was not a book that I loved right away, even tho Josiah really did like the story from when I started reading it. It is about a kid named Zoe and her mom moving to India. A place new and different world for these kids. It is hard not to get pulled into a magical story like this. We really had a hard time putting down this book and we are alooking forward to seeing the other book's.


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You can purchase Zoe & Zak and The Ghost Leopard at Amazon

I encourage you to connect socially with

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FTC:: This post was written for Charisma Media Tours, who provided the complimentary product in exchange for my honest review.