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New Video Trailer, Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol!

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Thanks so much to Literary Titan for the excellent job on my new Skylar Robbins video! Follow Skylar Robbins, teen detective, and her crew as they navigate a dangerous island, trying to discover the meaning of a mysterious idol. Fierce island natives will stop at nothing to prevent the teens from discovering the truth. Will Skylar’s team survive to return to middle school? Or will this field trip be their last adventure?

Watch the video now, here!

Skylar Robbins mysteries have won multiple awards, and more than one have been Amazon #1 Bestsellers in Children’s Detective Books. Accolades include being voted Book-of-the-Month by LASR readers, three 5-star Reader’s Favorite awards, and one was a Top Ten Finalist for an Author Academy Award in the YA/Middle Grade category.

Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol is available now on Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and wherever ebooks are sold.

Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol (Fall, 2020)

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Island hut from a scene in book 5 in the Skylar Robbins mystery series.
A hut similar to those Skylar Robbins and her crew will sleep in on the island.

Thirteen-year-old sleuth Skylar Robbins is about to take on her most dangerous case yet. The challenge: braving a savage enemy while solving the mystery of a strangely frightening idol.   

Skylar’s new high-tech detective gadgets give her intelligence an extra edge. A canister of Invisi-powder is vital when she and her assistant detective, Alexa, suddenly need to disappear. Earbuds and a small high-powered microphone make up a Soundtrap: perfect for eavesdropping on her crush while he plays My Secret Kiss, or on the boys in the next hut while they devise a terribly risky plan. Her Supalight, visible from half a mile away, enables Skylar’s crew to message her during a midnight attack. Night vision goggles might save her life when she’s chased through a dark jungle with her brilliant partner, Daniel Gannon.

Fierce island natives will stop at nothing to prevent the teens from discovering the true meaning of the idols. Will Skylar’s team survive to return to middle school? Or will this field trip be their last adventure?

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MYSTERY OF SHADOW HILLS: Fun for the Whole Family! Who Knew?

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Amulet and earrings inspired by Skylar Robbins

Amulet and earrings inspired by Skylar Robbins

Another Skylar Robbins reader makes an amulet for protection.

Another Skylar Robbins reader makes an amulet for protection.

Samuel also makes a protective amulet like Kat's and Skylar's from The Mystery of Shadow Hills

Samuel also makes a protective amulet like Kat’s and Skylar’s from The Mystery of Shadow Hills.

After reading the following passage from SKYLAR ROBBINS: THE MYSTERY OF SHADOW HILLS, one family was inspired to copy the creative projects suggested to 13-year-old Skylar by her new BFF, Kat, the Malibu middle school witch:

“I don’t have any ideas yet,” I admitted to Kat. “How about you?”

“I have a bunch of them,” she said, leaning toward me. “We can decorate a special box for our amulets. We can go down to the beach and collect stones with different powers and weave a basket for them. We can embroider spirit pouches and fill them with herbs, feathers, incense, and seashells. We can use our leftover liquid lead and glass stain and decorate a candle holder with Wiccan symbols.”

My new friend was amazing. “What’s Wiccan?” I mouthed.

She looked around. No one was listening. “Witchcraft.”