Star's Adventures

By Kate Lynn and Karen Paul Stone

Star was an ordinary witch but that all changed one day.

She was walking home from school when she got bit by a werewolf. Star is trying to learn how to control her powers as a witch and as a werewolf. It’s not any easy task but just when she feel likes she may be getting it all under control, she is taken away from her home and soon

• Language: English
• Publisher: Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781947589025

Kate Lynn

Kate Lynn is a small town girl with a love for reading. She didn't start out with a love for it, though. She struggled all through third and fourth grade with reading. She just couldn't find that one book to spark her interest. Then in fifth grade she fell in love with her first book, Fablehaven. She started writing a story of her own. Her family supported her adventure in writing, and her grandmother even told her that she would have it published for her when it was completed. So this is how Star's Adventures began.

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Star’s

Adventures

by

Kate Lynn

Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.

Walden, Tennessee

Star’s Adventures Copyright ©2017 Katie Lynn Luck. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Published by Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc.

100 Clegg Street, Signal Mountain, Tennessee 37377 USA www.waldenhouse.com 888-222-8228

Type and Design by Karen Paul Stone [e-mail]

Cover painting ©2017 Karen E. Reader. All rights reserved. www.behance.net/karenreaderdesignit

Print ISBN: 978-1-947589-00-1

E-book ISBN: 988-1-947589-02-5

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911142

Wolf girls, witches, werewolves, spells and magic. Star’s adventures begin when she is bitten by a wolf. Now she is a wolf girl. Star and her best friend, Allyson, are captured by werewolves, and spells and magic are all they have to depend on if they are going to escape. -- Provided by publisher

YAF068000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Werewolves & Shifters

YAF019050 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy/Wizards & Witches

YAF019000 YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy/ General

Print $15.95 E-book $4.99

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my teachers

and my dear friend Sierra

Acknowledgments

A special thank you to my family for their support

To Karen Stone, publisher

And to Karen Reader, artist

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

About the Author

Connect with Kate Lynn

Chapter 1

My name is Star. I have had the adventure of a lifetime. The world we live in is not the world we think it is. This world we live in has werewolves, witches, and wolf girls, and I got to be with them all.

It was just another day in middle school – math, science, history, and stuff. The bell had rung for the end of the day. I was walking home because my house was a hunting cabin about a mile in the woods. Just as I entered the thickest part of the woods, right before the clearing where the house was, I heard leaves crunching. There were lots of squirrels around the house, so I didn’t think much about it. When I took one step, a huge wolf appeared on the narrow trail I had cleared, knocking me down.

I could not use one of my spells that my dad taught me because the wolf was too big, so I pushed myself back away from the wolf until my back was on a tree. Its yellow eyes were staring a hole through me. It walked closer to me until it was right in my face. I could smell its bad breath with every breath I took. It stood there staring at me for a long time like it was sizing me up.

Then, the wolf bit my right hand. I was screaming so loud people in China could hear me. I was feeling pain in my hand and then it was slowly spreading through my whole body. Then all the pain went to my head. My vision was black and white; then it was back to normal. My vision was back and forth for a very long time. Then the pain that was in my head rushed into my neck. My scream was getting deeper and becoming more of a growl than a scream. My pain eased and then went all in my body. Fur was growing everywhere; my hearing was way better, and the rest of my senses were enhancing. The pain went to my hands and feet. It was worse than before. My hands were slowly becoming paws. The feeling was gone. I gasped for air. I was very happy that the pain was gone. I didn’t know that a wolf bite would do that.

I just kept walking and passed a big puddle and saw myself in the puddle as a wolf. I started to panic, but then I took a deep breath and went to the house. I had to take the key under the doormat as a wolf and unlock the door. That was the easy part; the hard part was trying to open the door. The doorknob was ball-like, so I really had a problem with that. I was finally able to get my teeth to where I could open the door. It was about midnight so I had to be very quiet. When I got in my bed I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

My alarm that I had set for 6:00 was going off, but my alarm had never hurt my ears before. This time it felt like my ears were going to burst. When I turned it off my ears were ringing. After a minute I realized I wasn’t a wolf; I was a human. I looked at my right hand. There was a scar where the wolf had bitten me.

Star, get up, said my little sister who had a very high pitched voice.

I am up! I said.

I was getting ready, got my uniform on, got my stuff I needed for school, and went to eat my breakfast. Dad had cooked us scrambled eggs and bacon. I ate my food, grabbed the sack lunch that dad packed for me, and went to school though the woods. As I was walking I saw a rabbit. It was then I started to change into a wolf. I was just about to be a full wolf, but the rabbit ran away.

I have to get this under control before I go to school. I muttered.

I went in the woods into an area where no one goes but me. I had to work on training my wolf side at once, but I needed to have Allyson to bring me all the work I needed to do from school that day so Dad wouldn’t get suspicious. So I got my phone out and texted her. She didn’t ask why, which is not like her, but I didn’t think about it. I thought about a rabbit, and I started to change into a wolf. When I was a full wolf, I thought about me as a human, and I went back to being a full human. As I was walking I saw a rabbit, and I started to change, but I stopped the change. I knew then I was ready to stay in school without being a wolf, but it was too late to go to school, so I stayed in the woods and practiced changing from human to wolf and back to human.

It was 2:15 and Allyson was approaching. She said that she would have to help me with the new math skill they had learned. So when I got home, Allyson and I went to my room so my sister would not bug us. I closed the door, and then Allyson asked the one question I hoped she wouldn’t ask.

Star, why didn’t you go to school?

I had to think of something quick or Allyson would find out. I could not tell her or anyone.

I had some family stuff to take care of. So let’s get to work, I said.

We worked on school stuff for about two hours. Right before Allyson left she told me that we had to type a story about a wolf and send it to the teacher, and I had one month. I sighed and got out my laptop that I got last month. I got on my account, where I had lots of other stories about a girl named Chastity that was raised by wolves. So I clicked the blank document and put the title THE WOLF GIRL. It was going to be about a baby that was abandoned and one day a pack of wolves came. Instead of eating her, they thought they could teach her to be one of them.

It was the next day and I must have fallen asleep when I was typing, because my laptop was on my lap when I awoke. I slipped my laptop in my backpack and went to eat my breakfast. My sister kept asking me stupid things like, Are you going to school? and Are you doing work at school?

Things like that made me so mad that I wanted to punch her, but instead I just sat there eating my eggs. When I was done I washed my plate and grabbed my backpack. I started to walk to school and I saw Allyson half way there. She had a look on her face that said to me that she was mad.

So you want to tell me something, Star?asked Allyson.

Nope, I tell you what I want to tell you, Allyson! I said.

Do you want to tell me something, Star! Allyson said it with a very serious tone this time.

I don’t, Allyson, I said starting to get agitated.

OK, well let’s go to school, Star.

Yeah let’s go, I said, but instead of saying it normally, my voice sounded shaky. We started to walk to school and a rabbit jumped in front of us. I looked at Allyson out of the corner of my eye. She was shaking so much, and she was so stiff, that if I were to touch her, she would have fallen off her feet. I swung my hands so the rabbit would run away, but it just stood there dumbly. The longer it stood there, I felt myself starting to change. I quickly walked to it and it ran off