Haneul and the Borrowed Faces
Book 1 · Seoul · Haneul
Six minutes to Haneul’s sword solo, and a claw comes out of the dark toward Mattie. The demon is wearing a face she knows. First a kitten. Then a food seller. Then Halmoni.
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Sonagi6 Waking · Read-It-Yourself Chapter Books
The SONAGI6 Backstage Pass
A free companion download for the grown-up reading along. Print what you like, as often as you like, for your own family.
Inside you will find coloring pages drawn from the illustrations in the book, Korean word cards to cut out and keep, the words to “Stay in the Light” with a sing-along track, and a picture search for each volume. The book gives her the story. The Backstage Pass gives her somewhere to put it.
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The R2 Backstage Pass is still being put together. Leave an address and it arrives the day it is finished.
In this series
Sonagi6 Waking
The same six adventures, told by each girl in her own voice, across fourteen short chapters. Written for ages 7 to 9.
Jordan and the Stolen Staff
Book 2 · Hong Kong · Jordan
Jordan always goes first. Tonight something is already there ahead of her, wearing Koa’s face, then her own, then Po Po’s. And the Monkey King has lost his golden staff.
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Lei and the Returning Spear
Book 3 · Hilo · Lei
Three cries come at once, and every one of them sounds real. Lei knows voices the way other people know faces. Her guardian can hold the demon but cannot send him. That part is Lei’s.
Coming soon
Mattie and the False Shore
Book 4 · Stromness, Orkney · Mattie
Mattie always knows where everyone is standing. Tonight someone offers her a faster way home across the water, and the faces waiting on the far shore belong to people she loves.
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Aiko and the Stolen Voice
Book 5 · Kanazawa · Aiko
Aiko hears the note under the note. When a voice calls to her with no breath beneath it, she has to choose a door, and the komainu will not choose it for her.
Coming soon
Kaela and the Vanishing Door
Book 6 · Busan · Kaela
Kaela remembers everything exactly. Backstage, doors keep appearing where no door was, one of them opening onto Halmoni’s street. A painted door will not hold when you tap it true.
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The whole ladder
Six girls, five ways to read them
- Sonagi6 Origins · Read-Aloud Picture Books, ages 4 to 7
- Sonagi6 Waking · Read-It-Yourself Chapter Books, ages 7 to 9
- Sonagi6 Rising · Middle Grade Novels, ages 9 to 12
- Sonagi6 Soaring · Young Adult Novels, ages 14 to 18
- Sonagi6 Crossing · Speculative Literary Novels, adult