Good Ogre (24 page)
Authors: Platte F. Clark
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing a book is like writing a bunch of little books and then squishing them together. Actually, that's a horrible analogy and you should probably forget I even brought it up. Writing a book IS about a team of amazing and talented people, however, including first and foremost my editor, Fiona Simpson. My sincere appreciation and gratitude goes out to all the folks at Aladdin and Simon & Schuster, and to my agent, Deborah Warren. The cover comes courtesy of the talented John Hendrix, and hats off to Jessica Handelman for another terrific jacket design.
Thanks to my fellow Story Monkeys Eric Patten, Dave Butler, Erik Holmes, and Michael Dalzen for your help and insights. And to my wife and family, thank you for all your love, support, and willingness to put up with a dad who enjoys nothing more than long bouts of laughter with his kids.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PLATTE F. CLARK
shares his first name with the Midwestern Platte River, which he's been told means “wide and shallow.” Despite that, he was able to find a woman to marry and produce seven offspring with. Platte graduated from college
cum laude
, with a BS in philosophy and an MS in English, and currently lives with his family in Utah.
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Bad Unicorn
Fluff Dragon
Good Ogre
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Interior designed by Karina Granda
The text of this book was set in Bembo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clark, Platte F.
Good ogre / by Platte F. Clark. â First Aladdin hardcover edition.
pages cm.â(The bad unicorn trilogy; book 3)
Summary: After saving three worlds, Max has trouble settling back into middle school and life at home, but when he tries to return to the magical planet of Magrus, the evil Maelshadow begins changing humans into monsters in an effort to take over the planet.
ISBN 978-1-4424-5018-9 (hardcover : alk. Paper)
[1. WizardsâFiction. 2. MagicâFiction. 3. Adventure and adventurersâFiction. 4. Ghouls and ogresâFiction. 5. UnicornsâFiction. 6. Humorous stories. 7. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.C55225Goo 2015
[Fic]âdc23
2014017688
ISBN 978-1-4424-5020-2 (eBook)