This is a great young adult/coming of age fantasy, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to grown-ups too. Or maybe it's just me--I've never outgrown my love of fantasy! This is the first book in the Mud, Rocks, and Trees series.
You've got the mud people--they have flipper feet, perfect for walking in the muddy areas they like to live in, perfect for swimming. Trouble is, the small-footed people don't like them and are trying to eradicate them.
And then there are the rock people--for defense and in hibernation (during the hottest months), they can curl up into a ball with hard scales on their backs to protect them. The soft-backed people don't like them either.
And the tree people, with their flying squirrel-type skins between feet and wrists, designed by the Maker for living in tall forests. And guess what? Those flightless people don't like them.
Go figure. It seems their emperor doesn't like hardly anyone that doesn't look like him.
But there are a few of those plain people who are good and have gone to the mud, rock, and tree people to let them know the one God has selected one person from each of their species to go to their capital city when the new star shows up--and it has.
That selection comes with great pain. It isn't easy, being the chosen of God.
You can get this one free! on Amazon, at least at this time. I wouldn't hesitate for too long, though. Sometimes freebees are only free for a limited time.
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