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    Kieran and the Weird Window
    Kieran and the Weird Window
    Kieran and the Weird Window
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    Kieran and the Weird Window

    By Alan Wallach

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    Kieran, a teen-age boy, out of curiosity, goes into his father's basement workshop and discovers a window that's not a window. It turns out to be some sort of wormhole. He brazenly steps through the weird window into another workshop in another universe. He encounters a boy from that universe and they both discover that their fathers know each other and have been working together for years. One serious problem is that the weird window is unstable and comes and goes with no apparent pattern. This causes all sorts of problems, among which is that it's easy to be stranded, which is indeed what happens.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlan Wallach
    Release dateNov 22, 2014
    ISBN9780990672340
    Kieran and the Weird Window
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    Alan Wallach

    Alan Wallach was born and raised in Brooklyn. He has a degree in chemistry. After a tour in the US Air Force as a meteorologist, he went to work for IBM as a programmer and back to school for graduate study in mathematics. He has been associated with computers for most of his business life in one form or another from programming to consulting, training, sales, management and ownership. He has been a technical writer, and for almost 15 years wrote a computer column for the Sunday Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield MA. In the early nineties, his Plain English Guide to Your PC was published and and right before the milennium, The Year 2000 Hoax was released, a book which debunked the doomsayers prediction of an economic collapse because of the Y2K bug.Alan is an accomplished classical pianist and considers music his first love. He is a basketball nut and still plays often in the early morning hours with a similar minded group of nuts.He and his wife have recently moved from the Berkshires in Massachusetts to New Jersey, in full view of the Manhattan skyline. He is now a full time writer working on a new novel and continuing his Kieran series of books for young readers.

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      Book preview

      Kieran and the Weird Window - Alan Wallach

      The Kieran Book Series

      Book 1

      Kieran and the Weird Window

      By Alan Wallach

      Published by Interlaken Publishing Co.

      Distributed by Smashwords

      This book is available in a print edition at most online retailers.

      Copyright 2013 by Alan Wallach

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      To Kieran

      for whom this series was written.

      To Ian

      who had the idea for the story.

      To Michela

      who has become my best audience.

      To Francesca and Alexis

      who, I hope,

      will read the books eventually.

      Special thanks to Ruth Bass,

      a great writer and editor

      whose help and encouragement

      were invaluable.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter I The Professor's Workshop

      Chapter II Kieran's Curiosity Grows

      Chapter III Through the Weird Window

      Chapter IV The Other Universe

      Chapter V Rikki Visits

      Chapter VI Rikki is Trapped

      Chapter VII The Professor Tells All

      Chapter VIII Rikki and Kieran Become Friends

      Chapter IX The Bully

      Chapter X Bal and the Open Window

      Excerpt from Book 2

      About the author

      Other books in the Kieran series

      Chapter I The Professor's Workshop

      Kieran was very tall for thirteen, six feet to be exact. Since he was also very smart, most people thought he was much older. A month ago, the librarian told him she thought he was sixteen. It surprised him. He was very thin with light brown hair that was always falling over his brown eyes. It seemed as if he were all legs. When he had a choice, he preferred to wear jeans, even in the summer when most everyone wore shorts. When he wore a short sleeve shirt, the birthmark shaped like a K was visible on his left forearm. His mother told him that's why she gave him a name beginning with a K.

      He was in his last year at Muttonville middle school and couldn’t wait to get to high school. He lived in a nice white house on Cypress Street. It stood out from the other houses because it had bright yellow shutters. But that didn't really matter because Kieran could have found it even if it didn't.

      Kieran had his own room. He considered himself very lucky to have his own space. It’s not that he was a loner. He wasn't. He had many friends and had much in common with them, sports in particular. He was a basketball nut. But he had some interests that were very much his own and he never found anyone to share them with. He was interested in the mysteries of science. He was fascinated by space travel and thought at one time that he wanted to be an astronaut or maybe an astronomer. None of his friends were interested, at least not to the extent he was. So he appreciated his time alone. He didn’t have to explain to people why he did the things he did or liked what he liked. He wanted to do well in school because of his interest in science and mathematics and in addition to his dream of space, he had his eye on being a professor like his father. So he paid attention to his homework.

      Dinner is ready, Kieran. Go get your father, Mrs. Cummerford said. Sarah Cummerford was a pretty woman with a little salt and pepper in her brown hair. Kieran looked more like her than his father. Professor Cummerford was not nearly as tall as Kieran and was a little overweight. His hair was prematurely gray. He didn't wear glasses all the time, but used horn-rimmed ones for reading.

      Where is he, Mom? Kieran asked.

      In his workshop.

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