Articles about Rocket McGee Book Series Book One
Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! New Trailer
Here’s a new trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble!: Flight of the Golden Caterpillar (1280×720 version).
Trouble brews and flares and sweeps four lonely kids about 12 years old into someone else’s gnarly mess. Now they must forge an alliance to save themselves and a parent.
Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the power to work together.
Trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble!
Here’s a new trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble!: Flight of the Golden Caterpillar.
Trouble brews and flares and sweeps four lonely kids about 12 years old into someone else’s gnarly mess. Now they must forge an alliance to save themselves and a parent.
Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the power to work together.
GalleryAmelia Falls into the Garage with the Packard Caribbean in Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble
Amelia Falls into the Garage with the Packard Caribbean, shoved by the helicopter’s rotor wash, off her feet and into the air… a copyrighted excerpt follows, from Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, Book 1 in the kidlit Rocket McGee Series.
…like having the rug pulled out from under me, she reflected, remotely, as she backstroked through the roiled and scorching, debris-filled air.
She pictured an ugly, scratchy, painful fall, slap-dab in the middle of a flaming thorn bush, charred and torn to shreds and at the mercy of her attackers, who even then rushed towards her, but instead she fell back softly, almost in slow motion, borne by tingling invisible fingers to the concrete floor of a dimly lit room, and she stared up at the back of a green garage door.
GalleryRocket McGee kids tour Faraway Island with Andrew the Antigrav Air Taxi
Rocket McGee kids tour Faraway Island with Andrew the Antigrav Air Taxi.
In Book One of the Rocket McGee Series, Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, Chad Saenz takes Amelia and the kids for a tour of Faraway Island in Andrew, the Antigrav Air Taxi.
You know, the Aircars protect their passengers with a surrounding forcefield, but Amelia really shouldn’t be standing up, pointing like that! You think? But, she must be excited. She must have just figured out that she’s looking at the omicron Chairman’s offices from the outside, where the windows look out from the Upper Branch of the Outer Shoe onto the Sea of Faraway.
New Book Trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar
Here’s a new Book Trailer for Rocket McGee Avoiding Trouble! or Flight of the Golden Caterpillar, thanks to help of the folks at BooksGoSocial.com. I find it pleasant to watch (and watch – I do…). The score helps a lot. It makes me feel better about the cover, too. Enjoy. Then, go buy the book!
GalleryFocused Field Pulse in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble!
Focused Field Pulse in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble!
Just outside the sealed door to the Golden Caterpillar Train’s boarding platform, frustrated Major Wen fires a focused field pulse at the kidnappers in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! – Book One in the Rocket McGee Series.
GalleryRocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble!
The kids blast through the Golden Caterpillar Train’s deep tunnels in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! It’s Book One of the Rocket McGee Series; built by Roan Reedling with middle grade readers in mind that kids of any age can enjoy!
GalleryThe Last Golden Caterpillar Pod
The Rocket McGee kids run for the last Golden Caterpillar Pod in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble!
Avoiding trouble’s one thing they’re not doing very well, though. Trapped in the Golden Caterpillar Train’s gleaming white station, tracking Amelia’s kidnapped dad, the kids scramble for cover – and their lives – rushing for the door to the train’s last pod.
GalleryRocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! Book One of the Rocket McGee Series
Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! is the first book in the Rocket McGee Series and introduces four well-schooled and well-traveled but lonely young people about 12 years old who forge a reluctant and rocky alliance in a perilous, high-tech adventure to save one of their parents. Along the way, they discover friendship, a place in the world, and the super-human power to work together. In this world, magic lies in technology and human interaction.
Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! is available at the Amazon Bookstore in Kindle and Paperback formats from Rocketwhoosh!
Roan Reedling wrote Book One of the Rocket McGee Series, Avoiding Trouble! mainly with tweens and younger teens in mind, but it’s a sci-fi adventure that kids of any age can enjoy. You be the judge.
On present-day Earth, or nearly so, the world-views and objectives of secretly advanced technology companies are coming to a head. Envy and avarice rear their fire-snorting snouts. Trouble roils and flares, and four young people are forced to extricate themselves from a gnarly situation not of their making, though they have a knack for getting themselves into trouble too.
It all started mundanely enough. As Amelia darted from the locker rooms after the swim meet, out onto the playing fields of the New World Academy, and rushed to rendezvous with her schoolmate, Diana, in the thicket at the edge of the school grounds, she didn’t imagine for a moment falling down a rabbit hole into a roller-coaster ride for her life and the lives of family and friends, or being there at the birth of Rocket McGee. Who would?
Faraway Island is featured in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! […]
GalleryKids emerge from the Dymaxion Map Mural in the omicron Chairman’s office, in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling
The kids emerge from the Dymaxion Map Mural in the omicron Chairman’s office, in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling.
The Dymaxion Map Mural on Faraway Island is described in Rocket McGee: Avoiding Trouble! by Roan Reedling. The entire east wall of the Chairman’s Office on Faraway Island is a mosaic of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map. The Dymaxion Map shows our world as one great island chain – almost a single island – strung across one great ocean. You may note that the Dymaxion Map in the Chairman’s Office is sort of upside down and a little bit canted compared to how it’s normally shown. But, what is up or down or canted in the universe? You can learn more about Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map at the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
