THE MAGIC CHEST STORY (YA Fantasy)

The Mackie family has lost their home to foreclosure, and just before Christmas. Now the family is uprooted and must go live with Grandmama in Maryland, where the rest of the extendend family have come to celebrate the holidays.

It is there a young girl and her twin brother discover a magical box within their deceased grandfather's old army chest. The box is an ancient relic that opens the gateway into another world... Tu'roc.

They find that Tu'roc is a wondrous place; one of beauty and intriguing creatures. But Tu'roc has become a very dangerous world, plagued by the evil toad queen, who seeks to conquer all of the lands.

When the toad queen learns that two humans have come into Tu'roc and wtih the power to open the gateway into the earthly realm, she sends out her toads to capture them.

With the help of an unlikely creature, the twins escape the toad queen and are taken to the gibbon village, where they are protected until they can return home. But getting home will not be easy, and every moment they remain in Tu'roc, they become more a part of it.

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