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Bookworthy Podcast Interviews Author Phyllis Wheeler

Bookworthy Podcast Interviews Author Phyllis Wheeler

by Phyllis | Mar 17, 2025 | Phyllis Wheeler's Books

Valerie Fentress of the Bookworthy podcast interviewed me recently. We had a lively discussion about my books and my mission. You won’t want to miss it! Find it here: http://www.valeriefentress.com/post/bookworthy-chats-with-author-phyllis-wheeler or look up the...
I’m featured on Ice Cream With Authors podcast!

I’m featured on Ice Cream With Authors podcast!

by Phyllis | Feb 27, 2025 | Phyllis Wheeler's Books

I’m featured on the Ice Cream With Authors podcast today, talking about my Christian time-travel series for kids 8-11, Guardians of Time. This is a new kidlit podcast featuring Christian authors. You can find it on any podcast app, or you can listen online...
In St. Louis? Let’s have an author visit

In St. Louis? Let’s have an author visit

by Phyllis | Mar 4, 2024 | Author visits, For Homeschoolers, Homeschool Literature, Phyllis Wheeler's Books

I’m offering an author visit to a literature or history class in school or co-op. Kids can dress up as their favorite historical characters, and then I will lead a discussion about these characters and their stories. We’ll focus on good storytelling. There...
Badge of Honor by Susan K Marlow, a review

Badge of Honor by Susan K Marlow, a review

by Phyllis | Feb 21, 2024 | Book reviews, For Homeschoolers, Homeschool Literature

Badge of Honor by Susan K Marlow tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy in Gold Rush California. Well, it’s past the first years of the gold rush. In fact, it’s fifteen years later, in 1864, and young Jem’s family has been in town, first prospecting...
Power Pup vs Tommy Trigger-Finger, a review

Power Pup vs Tommy Trigger-Finger, a review

by Phyllis | Feb 17, 2024 | Book reviews, Homeschool Literature

Power Pup vs Tommy Trigger-Finger is the first book in Amanda Trumpower’s amusing series for middle-grade reluctant readers, Power Pup. While it is a super-hero tale, it’s not a graphic novel, but an illustrated story. Investigative reporter Mittens Meow...
Tinker by Jill Williamson and Luke Williamson, a review

Tinker by Jill Williamson and Luke Williamson, a review

by Phyllis | Feb 7, 2024 | Book reviews, For Homeschoolers

Tinker by award-winning author Jill Williamson and her eighth-grade son Luke Williamson is a great tale for middle-grade reluctant readers. It’s sci fi, or actually space opera. Young Tinker is an orphan, taken in by his evil uncle and uncle’s two sons who...
The Great Ice Cream Truck Heist by JJ Johnson, a review

The Great Ice Cream Truck Heist by JJ Johnson, a review

by Phyllis | Feb 1, 2024 | Book reviews, For Homeschoolers, Homeschool Literature, Middle-grade voice example

The Great Ice Cream Truck Heist by JJ Johnson tells a funny and memorable tale. Full of bravado and self-doubt, Iggy, age 12, leads or tries to lead his neighborhood kids working together to solve a mystery. This is Book 4 in the Iggy and Oz series, and it’s a...
In St. Louis? Let’s have an author visit

Secret of the Lost Dragons: A podcast interview and more

by Phyllis | Nov 7, 2023 | For Homeschoolers, Phyllis Wheeler's Books

My new chapter book Secret of the Lost Dragons is out now,  gathering readers. Does that include you and yours? I hope so. Listen to a 20-minute podcast interview with me, discussing my work with fellow Christian fantasy author Michelle Levigne. The podcast name?...
The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson, a review

The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson, a review

by Phyllis | Jan 2, 2023 | Book reviews, For Homeschoolers

The Star That Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson tells the tale of a young girl, Norvia, who grapples with changes. She moves from island life to town life in 1914 Michigan. Not the least of her issues is her mother’s request that she conceal the fact that she is...
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Phyllis Wheeler, Author

Hi, I'm Phyllis Wheeler

Award-winning middle-grade Christian fiction writer extraordinaire! I'm excited to have you here. To learn more about me and my story as an author and homeschool mom, visit the About page.

More About Phyllis

  • Finalist in the Cascade Christian Writers Contest 2025!
  • Bookworthy Podcast Interviews Author Phyllis Wheeler
  • A.C. Williams, Reena Ellis and the Pink Panda Problem
    Reena Ellis and the Pink Panda Problem by A.C. Williams, a review
  • Realm Award Long List
    Realm Award “Long List” for Search for the Hidden Throne!
  • I’m featured on Ice Cream With Authors podcast!

Featured Book by Phyllis Wheeler

The Dog Snatcher: Guardians of Time Book 1

The kid just wants his beloved dog back. Before it’s too late.

Disbelief and shock fill eleven-year-old Jake when a stranger grabs his beloved dog. Jake and his twin Ava chase the scruffy teen down their suburban street, but the thief simply vanishes. So … what is this ancient-looking skeleton key Jake finds in the street? Turning it in the air takes the twins—somewhere else!

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Search for the Hidden Throne, Guardians of Time 3, by Phyllis Wheeler
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