The Adventures of Maddie Leon

– A Continental Shift –

   Maddie’s plans for the best summer ever are crushed when her parents accept a cultural anthropology assignment in Peru. Leaving her friends, plans, and Vancouver to live in Lima totally sucks! 

     Then she meets Jojo Kofi Afram, another culturally transported kid, rescues Wynn from a dog’s life on the streets, and discovers new ways to pursue her eco-fashion ambition. 

     Life should be great—but it’s not! Her mom wants her to be more “regular.” She misses Jenna and Grandpa Leo to the stars and back, and now Tata Sylvie is sick with the forgetting disease. Cultural differences, trouble at school, and changing family dynamics are a lot for a teen to deal with!

Follow Maddie Leon online or in-print as she and her companions find their true north and learn to hang on and let go in times and places of change, uncertainty, and possibility.

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The Adventures of Maddie Leon, written for ages 9 to 12 is a series that begins in Vancouver, Canada, touches down in Lima, Peru (A Continental Shift) then heads to Dublin, Ireland and Paris, France (The Atlantic Crossing), before concluding in Ghana, West Africa (A Ghanaian Semester).  Contact author, Terresa Augustine at email addresses listed below for distribution dates, book orders, and in-person events. Terresa is an engaging speaker with a long and commended history of speaking to youth and adults in the classroom and community.