Portals to Wonderland 2

By Jean Young

Julia and Benjamin are back on another adventure through the Portal. This time, they travel to the TRAPPIST-1 star system (located 235 trillion miles from Earth) to save the astronauts from crashing into the forcefield around the star’s planets.

Who put up the force field around the planets in the first place? Julia and Benjamin must travel four hundred million years back into the past to solve the mystery and help two races of aliens from destroying each other. Will they succeed? What will they imagine from the magic pouch to help them on their quest?

“My daughter Lily was delighted to read Jean Young’s first book in the Portals to Wonderland series. Her enthusiasm was ignited by Jean Young’s imaginative story. She and other children will be delighted with this next installment in the series, and parents and children alike will appreciate Jean Young’s impressive book.”—David Palmer, husband and father of two

“Portals to Wonderland is a fantastic pair of adventure stories for kids that recall the Chronicles of Narnia and Magic Tree House books but strike their own path with relatable young narrators and an attention to science and responsibility that would make any elementary school teacher proud. Young children will enjoy the characters and worlds author Jean Young has created in this accessible and enjoyable book.” —Pete Mazzaccaro, Editor of Chestnut Hill Local Newspaper

• Language: English
• Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Nov 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781629898155

Jean Young

Jean Young is a mother of two amazing children and a wife to a loving husband. She enjoyed reading as a child and often dreamed about traveling to faraway places. She lived in England, Africa and Nepal during her studies but she wishes she had traveled more. She loves making up stories for her children while on vacation to keep them occupied during the times waiting in line or waiting for food at the restaurants. Some of her stories were born from those times.

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Portals to Wonderland 2

By

Jean Young

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

World Castle Publishing, LLC

Pensacola, Florida

Copyright © Jean Young 2017

Smashwords Edition

Paperback ISBN: 9781629898148

eBook ISBN: 9781629898155

First Edition World Castle Publishing, LLC, November 6, 2017

http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com

Smashwords Licensing Notes

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews.

Cover: Karen Fuller

Illustrations: Stephanie Richoll

Editor: Maxine Bringenberg

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my children and my husband.

Chapter 1

Hi, my name is Julia. I have a secret. I have been traveling through a magic portal that opens to my house!

My brother and I were playing with our light sabers and pretending to fight off space aliens when we saw the magic portal suddenly appear in my brother’s room. It was the sparkly, blinking, multicolored portal that we had seen in our previous adventures. We were so glad to see the portal again that we made a run for it. As we were running toward the portal, my brother tripped and fell head first into the portal. Since I was running behind him, I tripped on top of him and tumbled in.

As we had experienced in our last adventure, we arrived in the magic travel agency. The Guardian of the portal was standing in front of her desk when we arrived. There were still posters of exotic travel destinations all over the walls, and the travel magazines were arranged neatly on the tables in the room. When she saw us sprawled out on the floor as we came out of the portal, she gave us a hand to get up. Luckily, we weren’t injured. We were just a little sore from tumbling through a magic portal.

Are you two all right? the Guardian asked.

Yes, I’m fine. Sort of, I said.

I’m fine, too, my brother said with a grin as he got up.

Okay, you two look fine. I’ll get right to it. The astronauts in the spaceship Phoenix need your help, she said.

She immediately led us to the Hallway of Many Doors while she told us about the astronauts. The Hallway of Many Doors was a magical place that appeared to stretch to infinity. There was also an infinite number of doors, and each door led to a different place and time.

What happened to them? What kind of help do they need? asked my brother.

The astronauts in the spaceship Phoenix just came out of the wormhole to travel toward the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. The seven planets were discovered and announced in 2017 in your timeline. People were immediately excited about it because it was the largest collection of earth-like planets in one star system that was ever found. If you are wondering what a wormhole is, it is like a tunnel through space-time that creates shortcuts for travel through the universe. But anyway, the eight astronauts in the spaceship Phoenix are in a lot of trouble. They were celebrating when they got out of the wormhole since they were the first humans to make it through. But as they got closer to one of the planets to land, the spaceship hit a force field around the planet. The spaceship is badly damaged, and the astronauts need your help! said the Guardian.

What can we do? I asked.

First, you should get your magic pouches back, said the Guardian. As soon as she said that, the magic pouches were strapped to our waists. The magic pouch was like a 3-D printer that made objects that could be programmed through a computer. Our brains were like the computers for the magic pouches, and the pouch would make any object our brains imagined.

What else do you think you would need? asked the Guardian.

We are going to need our special astronaut suits, and the super shield to protect us, my brother said.

We imagined the spacesuit and the super gadget watch with the red button. From our magic pouches we took out the special spacesuits we had created when we had gone to Mars in our last adventure. All the special gadgets that came with the spacesuits were there. We also put on our watches and pressed the red buttons. The shimmering force field surrounded and protected us.

Now we are ready to go, I said.

The Guardian took us into the Hallway of Many Doors and said, Okay, children. Go through door number eighteen, it will take you directly onto the spaceship Phoenix.

We took a deep breath, and opened the door and walked through.

Chapter 2

Carbon dioxide level is critically high. The air will not sustain life in twenty-five minutes, blasted a voice as we arrived on the spaceship Phoenix. It looked like we had stepped into the command center. The eight astronauts were all passed out. Some were sitting on their chair in front of the computer, and some were lying on the floor.

Suddenly, the light started flashing red and the voice came back. Please evacuate as soon as possible. The spaceship will explode in thirty minutes.

Oh, no! Think fast, what should we do? I asked Benjamin.

Let’s make sure everyone is still alive, my brother said.

We went closer to the astronauts and saw that they were all still breathing, but