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The Frequency
The radio station on 1140 AM doesn’t exist. But it just said his name.
Fenwick Gale is eleven. He lives above a vacuum repair shop with his dad and a twenty-two-pound cat named Chairman. He carries a notebook everywhere and writes down things about his city that nobody else seems to notice — a bridge with an extra arch at dawn, a house with a window that has no room behind it, a river that sometimes runs backward.
One night, turning the dial on an old transistor radio, he finds a station between 1139 and 1141 AM. Jazz. Weather reports for cities that don’t appear on any map. And then, clearly, his name.
Following the signal leads Fenwick to a diner with the best hash browns in the known universe, a librarian who has been at her post since the building was a church, a courtyard that shouldn’t exist, and the discovery that Ridgemont — his boring, used-to-be-something river city — has been hiding in plain sight. There are layers beneath the parking lots. Entire neighborhoods, still alive, still humming, visible to anyone on the right frequency.
But the frequency is failing. And when it goes silent, the city starts to forget itself.
The Frequency is the first book in The Strange Atlas of Fenwick Gale — a middle grade series for kids who pay attention, ask too many questions, and suspect that the world is stranger than anyone is letting on.
For the kids who notice things.
Fenwick Gale is eleven. He lives above a vacuum repair shop with his dad and a twenty-two-pound cat named Chairman. He carries a notebook everywhere and writes down things about his city that nobody else seems to notice — a bridge with an extra arch at dawn, a house with a window that has no room behind it, a river that sometimes runs backward.
One night, turning the dial on an old transistor radio, he finds a station between 1139 and 1141 AM. Jazz. Weather reports for cities that don’t appear on any map. And then, clearly, his name.
Following the signal leads Fenwick to a diner with the best hash browns in the known universe, a librarian who has been at her post since the building was a church, a courtyard that shouldn’t exist, and the discovery that Ridgemont — his boring, used-to-be-something river city — has been hiding in plain sight. There are layers beneath the parking lots. Entire neighborhoods, still alive, still humming, visible to anyone on the right frequency.
But the frequency is failing. And when it goes silent, the city starts to forget itself.
The Frequency is the first book in The Strange Atlas of Fenwick Gale — a middle grade series for kids who pay attention, ask too many questions, and suspect that the world is stranger than anyone is letting on.
For the kids who notice things.
73 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2026
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