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Two best friends. One strange blue light. A secret world waiting just beyond the woods. When best friends Ogden "Og" Carter and Iggy Lumaban head down to the creek one afternoon, they expect mud, turtles, and maybe a little trouble. What they find instead is something impossible-a floating blue light that knocks them flat and changes everything. Their search for answers leads them to Ondine, a reclusive woman who lives in a vine-covered yurt with a talking crow, glowing walls, and secrets that defy reason. Through her, the boys meet Finn, a fiery, fairy-like being from another world called Avilion, where a civilization teeters on the brink of war. But when Ondine disappears and the blue light returns for help, Og and Iggy are pulled into a battle that blurs the line between science and magic. Now the boys must rely on each other-and a few very strange new friends-to uncover the truth behind the light, find Ondine, and save both worlds before it's too late. Funny, fast-paced, and full of heart, The Outcasts is a story of friendship, bravery, and the magic hiding in plain sight.
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Tim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department and writing instructor at Malcolm X College. He holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and the anthologies, "The Rich and the Dead" and "Tales of the Fantastic." His short stories have been collected under the title "Kiddieland and other misfortunes." He is the author of the Sean McKinney novels "A Trace of Gold" and "The Blue Silence" and two novels for middle-grade kids: "The Outcasts" and "The Song of the Bees." When he's not writing he's editing the journal Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove, teaching martial arts, or painting pretty pictures.
