Down the Rabbit Hole

by J. Schlenker

The A Peculiar School saga continues.

The nature preserve is in turmoil. The pigeon triplets have run away from home. Their parents, Luce and Santiago Pigeon, fear they flew into the city whose new policy is pigeon eradication. Santiago goes after them. Four are now missing.

Their return looks bleak until Ethel Peacock discovers Rhonda Rabbit has been keeping a secret. Long ago, her ancestors dug a tunnel into the city park.

Ola Owl calls a meeting of the entire forest community, asking for an animal small enough to fit through the tunnel who can go unnoticed in the city to volunteer to find them. Sam Squirrel, eager to go on a hero’s journey and debunk his nerdy reputation, steps up to the task.

It is soon discovered that Hiram Hyena has also left the forest community. He leaves a note saying he must go on his own journey—one of the soul.

Now, six have left the safety of the forest.

242 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2023

About the author

J. Schlenker, a late-blooming author, lives with her husband, Chris, in the splendid center of nowhere in the foothills of Appalachia in Kentucky, where the only things to disturb her writing are croaking frogs, screaming guineas, and the occasional sounds of hay being cut in the fields.