The Healing Sand (Book Three: The Hole Stories)

By Christopher Millin

The Healing Sand is the final book in Christopher Millin's Hole Stories and it starts right where Fowl, Swine and Things That Send Shivers Down Your Spine ended. Onus and Twig have inadvertently ruined another of William Ernest Fang's elaborate plans and have left the villain trapped under a giant stuffed bear named Gertrude. Thanks to a promise from a tiny farmer and a scent-tracking mox named Gromley, the boys believe they are finally on their way home. But as we have learned over and over again in The Hole Stories, home isn't the easiest place to get to. And so, a chance encounter with a broken man leads Onus and Twig to a strange town that is hiding two very big secrets. One: the town possesses a magical sand only spoken about in urban legends. And two: the sand, which is used for so much good, has a dark side to it that no one is willing to acknowledge...it is a dark side that may keep Onus and Twig from ever getting home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Millin
• Release date: May 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476370316

Christopher Millin

Christopher Millin published an arts and literature magazine for children called Crow Toes Quarterly from 2006 to 2011.Many years before CTQ, Christopher fell into a deep, dark hole and met a man named Mr. Flex. Mr. Flex told Christopher an unbelievable and absolutely terrifying collection of stories to pass the time while they waited to be rescued. Christopher vowed that if he ever got out of the hole, he would write Mr. Flex’s stories down and share them with the world.The first of his Hole Stories, called The King of Arugula, was published in 2007 by Thistledown Press. Fowl, Swine and Things That Send Shivers Down Your Spine, the second story Mr. Flex told, and Christopher’s second book in the series, is available now as an eBook.Christopher was born on a horse farm in Edmonton, but now lives in Surrey, BC, with two guinea pigs that refuse to wear saddles.

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