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Who puts a door in a tree trunk? Twelve-year-old orphans Gertrude and Tristan find themselves on a train heading for the countryside to live on a farm. Gertrude is worried her missing parents will never find her. Tristan sees the trip as one more adventurer, which isn’t going to end well. But when they discover a hidden door deep in the woods life on the farm soon takes a twist. Once inside the door, they find themselves in Hollow Woods the land of the Elves. Mortar is the leader of the Elves and ruler of The Four Lands, where the Trolls, Goblins, and Dwarfs live. Strange things start to happen which threaten the very existence of Hollow Woods. Can Gertrude and Tristan help save Hollow Woods from the Evil High Elf Folmar? Join Gertrude and Tristan on a journey of new beginnings, discovery, believing anything is possible, and unusual friends.

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"""The Door in the Woods series is reminiscent of Enid Blyton's The Enchanted Wood, with all the joy, adventure, magic and danger of a children's fantasy adventure. Highly recommended for readers 8-12!' - Hayley Lawrence."

The Door in the Woods series is reminiscent of Enid Blyton's The Enchanted Wood, with all the joy, adventure, magic and danger of a children's fantasy adventure. Highly recommended for readers 8-12!' - Hayley Lawrence.

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Wendy Haynes completed a Diploma in Creative Writing at Southern Cross University. Her writing focuses on middle-grade fantasy, historical, and contemporary stories for children, picture books, junior fiction, and YA. Her first picture book Hayden’s Bedtime was published in March 2019 and is on the 2019 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge list. Her first middle-grade book Saving Hollow Woods: Book 1 The Door in The Woods Series a fantasy fiction was published in August 2020. She was a judge for the Port Writer’s In-house competition for the creative non-fiction category in 2018, and one of the judges of the fiction category in 2019. She was one of the judges for the CYA Competition for 2019. Wendy won first prize for her short story Going Nowhere, at Port Writers In-house competition 2018. She enjoys helping and motivating writers, and armed with a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, she has developed a mentorship program to help writers tell their stories and offers writing workshops. She has volunteered as secretary on the board member for Hunter Writer’s Centre, for the role of the President, Vice President, and Treasurer of Port Writers Inc, a not for profit local writing group and is heading up the Mid North Coast Writers’ Centre Incorporated in NSW. In her business Copywrite Solutions, she builds WordPress websites and creates content, and copy for websites, social media, and email marketing. Inprint Publishing is a business Wendy established to build a brand for her own publishing needs and to help local authors through the publishing process.

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