I’m so excited to be doing a cover reveal for The Legacy of the Stewardship by N.R. Bergeson! I loved the first book in this series, The Magnificent Glass Globe. The author, N.R. Bergeson, has lived in over 6 different countries and visited over 65. My favorite thing about his book was how it inspired me to travel more and see all the amazing people and places in the world. The locations and people felt very authentic to me because he’s lived there. They are wonderfully diverse and well researched with a delightful story. If you haven’t read the first book, check out my review and be sure to read it before this new book comes out on March 3, 2020!
Summary
Several months after their unexpected adventure in the Amazon, Ike is not happy. He’s tired of being picked on and being treated like a baby. But when the kids learn Anatoly has kidnapped a group of innocent children and is holding them ransom in the forests of Siberia, Ike knows he has to do something. But Anatoly demands a steep price; they must hand over the globe. When Grandpa suffers a heart attack, Ike, Mary, and Helen decide to help the other kids. Reluctantly, they decide to use the globe once again. Only this time, they leave better prepared. Or so they thought. When they arrive in Russia, they quickly learn that their problems are much bigger than just Anatoly. When a mysterious group of people appear using a second globe, Mary is kidnapped, and now it is up to Ike and Helen to cross the vast country and find her.
Excerpt
Mary pulled the globe from her bag and held it for a moment.
“Why don’t you take a turn?” she said, offering the globe to Ike. “It’s probably better if we all get some practice.”
“What?” Ike said, shocked. “Uh, no thanks.”
He thought about how they’d crashed into a tree the first time Mary used the globe.
“I’ll tell you what to do,” she said, insisting. “You’ll do fine.”
Ike reluctantly agreed. Holding the globe in front of him, he spun it with his thumb. It began to rotate rapidly, and within a few seconds, it illuminated with the brilliant image of the earth’s surface.
“Ay caramba,” Helen said. “I had forgotten how intimidating this is.”
The world began to expand rapidly as Ike pressed his finger against the glass. In a matter of seconds, the schoolyard vanished around them, and they hung in space, looking down on the massive orb of the earth.
Ike gulped. He felt his finger shaking against the invisible glass in front of him.
“Here’s hoping I don’t dump us in the ocean,” he said.
About N.R. Bergeson
N. R. Bergeson is the author of the “Glass Globe” series of children’s novels, a U.S. Diplomat, and a passionate proponent of global education.
N. R. (Nils) Bergeson spent his childhood in beautiful Northern Utah, graduating from Utah State University, and later earned a Master’s degree the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He subsequently set off to see the world, and has since lived in Russia (as a missionary with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and later as a student), Romania (as a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps), Colombia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and soon Indonesia (all as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development). He has traveled to more than 60 countries with his wife, Emily, and their three young children.
Nils is enamored with the international world and plans to visit everywhere if he can. He hopes his writing will instill a desire in the rising generation to take advantage of modern opportunities to see the world, learn new languages, and expand their cultural experiences as far as they can.
My name is Jessica. I love to read Young Adult and classic literature. I’ve been a book blogger for six years and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. I’m a very curious reader. Writing about all the questions and thoughts I had while reading a book is the best hobby ever.
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