For Younger Readers
THE WORLD BEHIND THE MIRROR
Three Adventures. Three Mysteries. One Extraordinary Journey.
These imaginative adventures entertain young readers while gently encouraging them to think about kindness, conflict, forgiveness, and the world they perceive. Written primarily for ages 9–12, the trilogy’s messages about perception, understanding, and the power of the mind are just as meaningful to adults.
Book 1 of 3
The Door Behind the Mirror
An Adventure in the Kingdom of Almost
Eleven-year-old Eli has always suspected there might be more to the world than what people can see. When he discovers a mysterious door hidden behind an ordinary mirror, he steps into the Kingdom of Almost, a strange and magical place where appearances cannot always be trusted and fear has a way of making the unreal seem very real.
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As Eli explores this remarkable world, he encounters puzzling rules, unexpected companions, and challenges that force him to question what he believes about himself and others. The deeper he travels, the more he begins to understand that the greatest obstacles are not monsters, walls, or locked doors, but the judgments and fears we carry within us.
Written for young readers but filled with ideas adults will recognize, The Door Behind the Mirror is an adventure about courage, perception, forgiveness, and discovering that we may be far more than the frightened image we sometimes see reflected back at us. Sometimes the greatest adventure begins when we dare to look beyond the mirror, and discover what truly lies beyond.
Book 2 of 3
The City That Couldn’t Stop Fighting
An Adventure in the City of Two Sides
The adventure continues when the journey leads to a place unlike any Eli has encountered before: the City of Two Sides, a community divided so completely that almost everything has become an argument. People choose sides, defend their side, distrust the other side, and often forget what they were fighting about in the first place.
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In The City That Couldn’t Stop Fighting, young readers enter a colorful fantasy world that feels surprisingly familiar. Eli soon discovers that conflict is not sustained simply by disagreement, but by fear, judgment, pride, and the belief that someone must lose for someone else to win. As tempers rise and divisions deepen, he faces a much larger question: What happens when being right becomes more important than being kind?
Funny, adventurous, and thought-provoking, this second book in The World Behind the Mirror series invites children and adults to examine the walls we build between ourselves. It offers a simple possibility: perhaps peace begins when we stop seeing an enemy on the other side, and begin listening to one another.
Book 3 of 3
The Kingdom That Forgot It Was Dreaming
An Adventure in the Kingdom of Almost
The journey through the world behind the mirror reaches its deepest mystery in The Kingdom That Forgot It Was Dreaming. Eli enters a kingdom whose people have become so absorbed in their fears, conflicts, rules, and identities that they have forgotten something extraordinary: the world they take so seriously may not be what they think it is.
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The kingdom’s troubles seem real, and everyone behaves as though survival depends on fixing, defeating, controlling, or escaping something outside themselves. But Eli begins to suspect that the real problem cannot be solved at the level where it appears. To find his way through, he must remember what the kingdom itself has forgotten and question the difference between what seems real and what is true.
Blending fantasy, humor, adventure, and gentle wisdom, this concluding story in The World Behind the Mirror trilogy invites readers to look beyond appearances without preaching or supplying easy answers. It is ultimately a story about awakening, forgiveness, and remembering that fear loses its power when we recognize the dream for what it is.
One Book Opens the Door.
Three Complete the Journey.
Read the trilogy in sequence for the full adventure.
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