Mystery of the FIREFLY CHARMS
ANDAR "TO WALK" ADVENTURE
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Andar grinned at being called TopCom. "Trace means it's like being there when it happened. You haven't seen this kind of replicate communication before, Storm. Watch." They were suddenly seeing Trace and the SIS starting to climb the mountainside of scheelite crystals. Rather, it was SIS doing the climbing, carrying the girl. Trace tucked her knees under her chin and rolled up into a ball to keep her arms and legs out of the way. A bird's-eye view of them looked like Trace was a pearl held by a golden bug that moved! "See, Sissy is a precision machine. I use it like a crane to manipulate heavy loads. It even takes the weight off my feet." Trace liked that feature best of all. "Why would you call a machine Sissy?" Storm whispered. "Sissy is just an obvious nickname for its initials--S.I.S." Trace laughed at the alternative. "Separate Interchangeable Self-propelled robot is a bit much. I don't want to call her a doll even though she's really built like the back half of a life-sized doll. Does that help with the description?" Here they saw how Trace had unrolled and connected her arms back to the robot. As she swung into position, the robot stood up on the mountain. "The soft chestpack of the SIS can separate to flip over my head to become a backpack. You can see its coloring of gold, contrasting with my iridescent suit." She felt a little like a fashion commentator. "Since the robot is all one piece, its head is a half-shell. It stays behind my head when I take my helmet off." Now the replicate showed Trace using both hands to pull her helmet forward. Storm gasped as long, honey-colored strands of hair framing her face tumbled down to her shoulders. "You know how Sissy works on our pedestal in the Firefly?" Trace continued to explain the robot. "It can record our finds, analyze and store the ore along with surveying the area behind me. All that, while I'm checking ahead and finding more samples." "You're a girl. My engineer is a girl!" "Well, duh!" Trace knew there had been other clues. Storm had just not picked up on them. "And I left the front half of Sissy back at the SpaceCube baking brownies." No one had paid much attention as Shermy carried the open book about with him. Who would suspect he was listening in on a very interesting conversation? Not even when he collapsed on his pack, rolling on the ground laughing at what Trace had said.
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Anderson Andy Noble had been a fourteen-year-old quadriplegic. Now, in the Fifth Kingdom, the King gives him a new body. "Tu para siempre vas a andar conmigo – You are to walk with me forever." Andy has been Andar ever since. He is TopCom of the Firefly A3 space trainer and is mentor to a troubled pilot, Storm, and the girl engineer, Trace, who wears a SIS, her Separate Interchangeable Self-propelled robot. The space trio find themselves trying to solve the mystery of three Fireflies, and, at the same time, secretly helping the mentally-challenged Shermy and a group of backpackers with their adventures in rock collecting, rocketry, and river rafting. Trends show that children from pre-school age and up are learning to work with computers. Most of them know what happens when a virus gets into the system. They understand the analogy to the human factor of anger. Mystery of the Firefly Charms in the Andar’s Adventures series is a fantasy that shows the attitude adjustment that can help them fight this virus. Readers learn there is a need to teach others no matter what the physical or mental problem. They learn how they can help better the lives now of disabled, mentally-challenged, rejected, and terminally-ill children they may know and how lives are changed forever by the King in the Fifth Kingdom.
About the Author
Norma Jean Waterhouse is a broadcaster copywriter. She served as a storyteller at Christian radio stations in Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri and is a graduate of Calvary Bible College in Kansas City. She taught children in Sunday school and, with her husband of fifty-two years, Harry Waterhouse, was active in girls' and boys' groups. She wrote this first "Andar" book originally for their sons and daughter and is writing more Andar To Walk Adventures for the benefit of their eleven grandchildren. With her husband of 52 years, Harry Waterhouse, Norma Jean was active in Pioneer Girls and Boys’ Christian Serviced Brigade in Connecticut and Missouri. They have also been support workers in the communications department of Wycliffe Bible Translators in Huntington Beach, California. She wrote and taped Wycliffe promotionals for more than 300 Christian stations across the United States and tape a talking book, Night of the Long Knives by Hugh Stevens. She has done commercial copywriting, broadcasting, traffic and sales for other commercial stations and is retired after eleven years at Kansas City’s classical music station. This first book about Andar was written for their sons and daughter. Since then, eleven grandchildren have inspired several poems and short stories. Now, besides the second book: The Mystery of the Firefly Riders, she is writing the third of these Andar To Walk Adventures.