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Susan Stoderl

Jul 51 min read

Excerpt | Author Susan Stoderl Reads Chapter 8 from Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors

In this reading from "Chapter 8, Through the Locks," two enslaved children are fleeing slavery through the Great Dismal Swamp.

Susan Stoderl

Jun 212 min read

Excerpt | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors | Chapter 24 |Volume 2 of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series

Excerpt from Chapter 34, of Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors.

Susan Stoderl

Apr 52 min read

Excerpt | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors | Terror in the Dismal Swamp | Chapter 9

The left bank hosted almost impenetrable canebrake and tall bamboo, while the right bank was more open, with large timber.

Susan Stoderl

Mar 152 min read

Writer's Life | Writing Middle-Grade Historical Fiction | Making History Exciting and Thought-Provoking

This passage kick-started my characters' journey, but that was only the beginning of investigating countless issues.

Susan Stoderl

Feb 22 min read

Excerpt | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors | A Night to Remember in Chapter 26

Jeb and Liza are fugitive enslaved kids who have time traveled to New York City from 1834 to 2022.

Susan Stoderl

Jan 262 min read

Maroons in the Great Dismal Swamp | Middle-Grade Fiction | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors

Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp | Middle-Grade Fiction |Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors Historical Fiction and Time Travel

Susan Stoderl

Jan 121 min read

Excerpt | Chapter 3: Intersection Between Good and Evil," from Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors

The children of Ezekiel Stewart are about to meet their new mother on the Veranda of Oak Grove Plantation in 1834. They have their doubts.

Susan Stoderl

Dec 1, 20231 min read

Sneak Peek | Mission 2. Unexpected Visitors, Vol. 2 of the Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Coming in Spring 2025

In 1834, Jeb and Liza tried to escape slavery on the Maritime Underground Railroad from North Carolina but arrived in NYC in 2022.

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