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Novel Magic features a YA fantasy this week– The Lost Chord by Lyndi Alexander. I’m excited for you to learn about this book and the inspiration behind the main character. Also, note the link to Arms Around ASD , a resource center providing therapies for people on the autism spectrum. Meet the Inspiration for Bee Warrick by Lyndi Alexander I have a daughter on the autism spectrum. She is not Rain Man. What she is, though, is uncannily intuitive. She often seems to be listening (and even conversing) with someone I clearly can’t see. I can make a mental wish that she would do something like turn off her light—and she will without my even saying it. She has a whole separate world where she lives part-time and is incredibly happy. She bursts into peals of laughter without any explanation. It’s kind of amazing. It’s also the inspiration for The Lost Chord , a YA fantasy novel I wrote about an autistic girl who travels through multiple dimensions to help a professor of music save...

Start the year with a series of thrillers. The first Novel Magic of 2021–bioterrorism! Seems about right! Check out the Color of Fear series by Lyndi Alexander. Courage is sometimes just doing what needs to be done. Alone in a strange country, pursued by a secret assassin, Lin Kwan has just one goal: take the herbs he needs to her scientist father to save what is left of humanity. Terrorists launch a plague in the United States that spreads to kill most of the world’s Caucasian population. As the deadly bioweapon mutates, Tzu Lin Kwan’s father, a renowned medical doctor and biologist, defects from China to MB910216387help develop a cure. His only daughter, Lin Kwan, is left behind in Hong Kong with her aunt. Then Kwan’s father summons her from across the sea to bring him Chinese medicinal herbs. Lonely and missing her parents, she accepts the challenge, traveling with her sensei Li Zhong to the New World. But a Chinese spy is on her trail, determined to kill her and Li Zhong, and...