Readers
Who this series serves.
Ages 7-11 / Grades 2-6; classroom-friendly readers, families, teachers, and librarians.
Series promise
Stranger Truths
Children's mystery adventure about hidden history, secret records, travel, family, clues, and forgotten truths.
Genre
Where it sits.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
Imprint
My World Books
Children’s books, scholastic materials, classroom resources, and K–12 reading paths.
Where to begin
Start with The Floating City Secret.
A classroom-friendly mystery adventure introducing the Second Record and the hidden truths history forgot.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Floating City Secret
The Second Record Adventures Book 1
A floating garden. An impossible record. A secret beneath the city.
Series books
Books in this reader path.
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Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Floating City Secret
The Second Record Adventures Book 1
A floating garden. An impossible record. A secret beneath the city.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Blue Bay Drums
The Second Record Adventures Book 2
The water glows. The drums remember. The message still matters.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Clockmaker of Fez
The Second Record Adventures Book 3
A vanished clock. A hidden chamber. A name left out of history.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Typhoon Lantern
The Second Record Adventures Book 4
A storm is coming. A lantern remembers the way.
Children's mystery adventure / light fantasy travel adventure
LatestThe Stepwell Whisper
The Second Record Adventures Book 5
A vanished song. A carved stairway. A whisper under stone.
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Publishing name
R. Stanek
Use R. Stanek for younger readers, classroom-friendly books, clean fantasy adventure, early YA, Magic Lands, Stranger Truths, Bugville Critters, and family reading.
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