by Steve Young

Winchell Mink, is an 11-year-old with some UNUSUAL problems, not the least of all is how to find his way back home. Not a big a deal, unless...YOU’RE STUCK INSIDE THE BODY OF YOUR PET TURTLE, HANNIBAL!

With his regular 11-year-old kid body stuck on a ledge, Winchell’s journey for help takes him on an adventure through places, eras and transformations that will change his life forever...we hope.

Along the way he’ll confront ZAZUPITS, the legendary python and BERTRUM CHATTERMUCH, the most obnoxious pig who ever rolled in the mud; he’ll battle the mythical FIVE-HEADED DONKEY of Levittown, PA and deal with the oddly shaped, but appropriately named, BOBBY PLUNGERBUTT.   He’ll play right field in the most important baseball game in history (at least 250 million years ago), where as a young Brontosaurus, Winchell is faced with making a play that will change mankind (and dinosaur-kind) forever. He’ll meet ABE LINCOLN and the inventor of the world famous GRATCHKEA.  He’ll face trumped up charges in the oddest and most musical court ever to hand down a trumped up charge.  And before it’s done, he might be (choke) dissected in biology class by CLAYTON MOORE, the baddest bully ever to attempt to dissect a turtle.

Will Winchell ever make it home? Is his story fact or fiction? Are there actually 130 tales? Only Winchell and the reader will know, and they’re not even sure. But whatever does or doesn’t happen, just don’t expect Winchell’s story to be like any you’ve ever read before.

Unless, of course, you’ve read Winchell’s story before.

15 MINUTES

-A Midgrade Novel-

(Harper-Collins, 2005)