Life is complicated for the Broderick kids.
They've just moved to a new neighborhood. Their parents are having problems.
Mom is always busy with work, Dad is always busy on his computer.
Half the time, it seems like they forget they even have children.
The kids are having problems too.
Twelve-year-old Katie doesn't like having to take care of little brother Sam.
Katie's twin Kevin is only interested in sports, and is mad at Mom and Dad.
Eight-year-old Sam can't stand being bossed around by Katie.
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The rest of the family thinks Dad's sister, Aunt Ellie, is weird.
But when the kids discover a secret room in Aunt Ellie's basement, and a glowing silver
doorway that leads to another world, the realize how weird their aunt really is.
Other kids sometimes come through that door.
Kids from a world where magic is real, and so are gnomes, elves, goblins, and dragons.
They come through the door looking for help from a good sorceress.
Instead, they get Katie, Kevin and Sam.
May, 2005 -- Silver Doorway #5: Orcs
Ahoy!, is now available!
July, 2004 -- Silver Doorway #4: Dragon
on the Loose, is now available!
February, 2004 -- Silver Doorway #3: An
Elf's Adventure, is now available!
October, 2003 -- Silver Doorway #2, Dwarves
in the Dark, is now available! Discover what your dwarven birthstone
and metal are, on the Activities page.
June, 2003 -- Silver Doorway #1, A Gnome
Away From Home, is now available! Check out the special extra online
activity, "Dame Coinpenny's Cookbook," on the Activities
page.
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A Gnome Away From Home, is now at the printer!
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| Katie Broderick Twelve-year-old Katie is small and skinny for her age, with bright red hair and freckles. She and Kevin are twins, with a birthday in July. Katie is a good student who likes to read and draw. She sometimes feels like her parents are picking on her when they leave her in charge of Sam. |
Kevin Broderick Twelve-year-old Kevin is tall, strong, and athletic. He has dark brown hair and enjoys all kinds of outdoor activities. He collects trading cards and plays ball for the Luna Park Lions. Most of the girls in his class think he's cute, but Kevin is more interested in sports than girls. |
Sam Broderick Eight-year-old Sam is blond and blue-eyed and sometimes gets into trouble by not stopping to think about what he's doing. He likes cartoons, toy dinosaurs, video games, fun and cookies. What he doesn't like is his sister Katie always thinking she can tell him what to do. |
Aunt Ellie Ellie Silver is Dad's younger sister. She is tall, with dark red hair and grey-green eyes. Ellie lives with her cat Chester in a small cottage with a garden. She likes to bake and make crafts, and the rest of the family thinks she's strange. Even before they see what's in her basement. |
| Dad Steve Broderick has dark hair and eyes like Kevin. He works from home as a computer programmer and game designer. Steve sometimes gets so caught up in what he's doing that he forgets what else is going on. |
Mom Jillian Broderick is blonde and blue-eyed like Sam, and very proud of her job as a powerful corporate executive. She makes lots of money, but is often called away to business meetings and has to work late. |
Uncle Dennis Mom's twin brother, also blond, Uncle Dennis is a professional player for a minor league team. He is away from home a lot during baseball season. He has a wife and a baby boy who live in a nearby town. |
Chester Chester is Aunt Ellie's cat. He has short white fur, big blue eyes, and wears a silvery collar with a bell. Sam has been scared of Chester ever since he got scratched on the nose. Chester is a cat with a special secret. |
| Grandma Grandma Broderick lives in a nursing home. She and her husband, Steve and Ellie's parents, used to live in Luna Park. |
Jeffrey Jeffrey is Mom's handsome administrative assistant. The kids think Jeffrey likes their mom a little too much. |
Cal Cal rides a motorcycle, wears an earring and a leather jacket, and has a tattoo. He's Aunt Ellie's boyfriend. |
Toby Kevin's best friend at Luna Park Elementary is a boy named Toby. They like to buy and trade collectible cards. |
Gnomes -- short and agile, clever with their hands, the gnomes are friendly and cheerful. They raise giant mice on mouse ranches, and train dogs to pull carts or carry riders. They live in a city carved out of a large flat-topped mountain, called Gnome Keep. Many gnomes travel and live in other countries.
Dwarves -- taller than the gnomes but still shorter than humans, the dwarves live in a subterranean land called Underearth. They mine metal and jewels from the earth, and build many types of weapons and machines. Their caves are often shared by a variety of bugs, which provide tasty food for the dwarves.
Elves -- very tall, graceful, and beautiful, the elves can live for hundreds of years and have powerful magic spells. They love art, fine food, wine, music and dance. Their main home is the Emerin, a forest kingdom, though other groups of elves live in faraway lands.
Orcs -- very strong, very fierce, and in most cases very ugly, the orcs do not get along well with their neighbors. Or even with each other. They have greenish skin, piggish noses, and big tusks rising from their lower jaws. Orcs will gladly fight with, and eat, anything they can.
Goblins -- distant cousins of the orcs, goblin-kind are smaller, weaker, and sneakier. They are green and monkeylike, and are said to steal children and turn them into more goblins.
Dragons -- once highly intelligent with cities of their own, the dragons have become a wild and
sometimes hunted race. Some are still able to speak and use magic, while others are savage and love only killing and gathering treasure.
The Northlands is the name of a human kingdom ruled by the Highlord. Its main city is Thanis, where the Highlord as well as the greatest of the human wizard -- the Archmage Talus Yor -- live. Montennor is one of the few dwarven settlements that welcomes visitors. Perras Peliani is the capitol of the Emerin. Hramad, an island nation, is ruled by human wizards who hate the elves.
Older readers wishing to learn more about this world and its inhabitants may enjoy the MageLore and ElfLore books, two trilogies of fantasy novels by the same author.
Eager for some trees and water in her life, she attended college at Humboldt State University in the extreme northern part of the state. She graduated in 1990 with a degree in Psychology. While she had always planned to be a writer, she found learning about motivation and behavior to be more interesting than majoring in literature. Later that year, she moved to Seattle, WA.
In 1992, she got married to a wonderful man named Tim, and in 1994 they were delighted to welcome their baby daughter, Rebecca. The three of them moved to a bigger house in a town north of Seattle, where they currently live with their three cats -- Schroedinger, Darth, and Ichabod -- and two mice called Squeak and Jumper.
Besides reading, writing, and gaming, C. M. enjoys cooking, arts and crafts, action movies, British comedy shows, robotic combat, and traveling to conventions. She writes many kinds of stories for readers of all ages.