Echo McCool, Outlaw Through Time (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Echo McCool: Echo, the girl of the title is half-human half-dryad which, among other things, means she has stripy limbs, she can see into the past and she is adept at a kind of medieval Kung Fu.
• Fenella Grey: Fenella Grey was a beautiful dryad who once lived in Wicca Forest, the wife of outlaw Adam McCool. Adam and Fenella had one daughter, Echo. We meet Fenella in spirit form in the second chapter of Echo McCool, Outlaw Through Time.
• Adam McCool: Adam McCool was the leader of a famous band of outlaws, hiding out in Wicca Forest, Yorkshire. He was the husband of the dryad Fenella Grey and the father of Echo McCool. Although we do not meet Adam in the story, his exploits and ideals are always kept in mind by his daughter Echo.
• Lord Hugo de Mortain: Hugo was the evil lord who presided over the deaths of Adam McCool and Fenella Grey. At the opening of the story he has put a bounty on the head of Echo, daughter of Adam and Fenella.
• Wulfric: Wulfric is the burly, bearded, evil forester who tracks Echo McCool at the opening of the story, shooting her with a poisoned arrow.
• Jason Fleeting: Jason Fleeting is twelve years old, scruffy, sandy-haired, a boy living in a children's home in the opening stages of the story. After a near-death experience he learns of the existence of Echo McCool, the half-dryad girl who has lain asleep inside a hollow oak tree for many centuries. Once he has awakened her, he and Echo set out to solve the mystery of the murder of Jason's mother, and to rescue his kidnapped sister Lauren.
• Lauren Fleeting: Lauren is Jason's pretty, blonde, seventeen-year-old sister. Jason has not seen her since her abduction, three years before.
• Anna Fleeting: Add a description of this character.
• Rob Fleeting
• Pauline Hewless: Jason's long-suffering careworker from the children's home, Brandsby House.
• Scott Cobalt
• Kevin Cobalt
• Tiffany Cobalt
• Maxine Knaggs
• George Megginson
• Kate Megginson
• Ben Wild
• Nikki Wheeler
• Matt Blackthorn
• Deena Fox
• Carl Fishburn
• Lee Railton
• Ross Bullivant
• Geoff Sangster
• Stuart Wood
• Steve Chase
• Phil Nicholl
• Ethel the Tiger: Lauren's cuddly toy and constant companion!

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• Ravenstone Manor
• Brandsby House
• Hazelby
• Oswaldley

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• Dryads: Describe this term.
• The Nevek Barrier
• Gewita: The name for Echo McCool's gift for witnessing glimpses of the past (a gift shared with many other dryads.)
• Karmic Sometimes
• Widdelpit: Echo McCool's name for a toilet (i.e. a hole in the ground!)

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• Human Control Over Ecology: Echo McCool, Outlaw Through Time has an ecological subtext in that Jason sees the attraction of Echo's earthy, wood-dwelling existence and he decides to be closer to the natural world himself, shunning possessions and the modern world.

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1. Roger K. Driscoll (Author)

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This book would appeal to readers who have read (or who are capable of reading, without support) books such as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (JK Rowling) and Stormbreaker (Anthony Horowitz).

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• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

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• Roger K Driscoll

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