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Rich Meyrick

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in Wrexham, The United Kingdom

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http://www.jaspasjourney.com

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Middle Grade, Travel, Children's

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Dr. Rich Meyrick earned an award-winning PhD in Environmental Change from the University of Cambridge (UK), after which he spent four years as an Environmental Scientist at the prestigious Senckenberg Institute in Weimar (Germany). So naturally, when he married Sue and moved to Canada in 2004, he began writing fiction for middle graders.

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	Jaspa's Journey: The Great Migration 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jaspa's Journey 2: The Pride of London 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jaspa’s Journey 4: The Hermit of Kennecott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jaspa's Journey 3: Jaspa's Waterloo 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jaspa's Journey 5: The Prisoner of Venice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Jaspa’s Journey Guide to… The Bridge of Fists

I admit I’m cutting it close getting this month’s post out in time. It’s just been one of those months. Hopefully, it was worth the wait…

Everywhere you go in Venice, normal daily life rubs shoulder to shoulder with dramatic history. In the following excerpt from The Prisoner of Venice, Jaspa and his friends encounter one of the best examples of this, located where the bridge called Ponte dei Pugni

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The Hangman's Revolution (W.A.R.P., #2)

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This me caught up with all the Detective Hiroshi novels currently available. I hope I don't have to wait too long for the next! ...more
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Rich Meyrick rated a book it was amazing Midnight Black (Gray Man, #14) by Mark Greaney (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I felt the last Gray Man novel wasn't quite up to Greaney's usual standards. Midnight Black is a rousing return to form. ...more
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Book Three of the Lost Elven Realms series finds Frida and Silas’s growing band of allies on a quest to recover a magical artifact currently in the possession of the Shadow Dragon. If that wasn’t already challenging enough, their pursuit carries them ...more
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