Susan Stoderl
- Apr 5
- 2 min
Excerpt | Terror in the Dismal Swamp
... It didn’t take long to reach the mouth of the narrow Feeder Ditch. The left bank hosted almost impenetrable canebrake and tall...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Writing Middle-Grade Historical Books | Making History Exciting and Thought-Provoking
In Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers, Book 2, Mission 1: Unexpected Visitors, two enslaved twins try to escape via the Maritime...
Susan Stoderl
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Unexpected Visitors: A Night to Remember in Chapter 26 of Mission 2
[Jeb and Liza are fugitive enslaved kids who have time traveled to New York City from 1832 to 2019. Like Sophia and Pedro, they are...
Susan Stoderl
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Middle Grade Historical Time Travel Book Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors, Maroons in the Great Dismal Swamp
Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp | Middle-Grade Fiction |Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors Historical Fiction and Time Travel
Susan Stoderl
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors | Intrigue on the Dismal Swamp Canal
Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors, volume 2 of the Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series is a time travel historical middle-grade book....
Susan Stoderl
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Author Reads Chapter 3 Excerpt, "Intersection Between Good and Evil", Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors
The children of Ezekiel Stewart are about to meet their new mother on the Veranda of Oak Grove Plantation in 1832. Both his three...