It’s a pleasure to be participating in author Sherry Ellis’ BUBBA AND SQUIRT’S BIG DIG TO CHINA Blog Tour through MC Book Tours today.

BUBBA AND SQUIRT’S BIG DIG TO CHINA

by Sherry Ellis

◊ Genre: Juvenile Fiction
◊ Publisher: Dancing Lemur Press
◊ Print & eBooks
◊ Paperback: 94 pages
◊ Grades 3-5

Synopsis

Squirt doesn’t believe Bubba can dig a hole to China. But when the hole swallows them, the kids find themselves in Xi’an, China, surrounded by Terracotta Warriors.

It gets worse when the ghost of the first emperor of China appears. He tells them they can’t go home until they find his missing pi. The kids don’t know where to begin until they meet a girl and her grandmother who promise to help find the pendant.

Soon they realize they are being followed. And they are no closer to finding the missing pi. Will Bubba and Squirt ever make it back home?

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 4 SQUIRT: THE PIT’S THE PITS

Now what? That was a good question, but I didn’t have an answer. A sick feeling spread in the pit of my stomach. I swallowed to keep myself from throwing up. This was horrible. I raised my head and looked around. The rows of soldiers seemed endless. We were never going to find the hole. And if we did, we still might not get back home. Maybe it was a nightmare and I’d wake up. I pinched myself to check. No. The pinch stung. It was real. We were living the nightmare.

I glanced at Bubba. A tear dripped from the corner of his eye. He wiped it away. I put my arm around him and kissed his mop of curly blond hair. I knew I had to keep it together. I didn’t want him to freak out.

“Maybe we can find somebody to help us,” he said.

“Maybe. But I’m not sure what they’d do.”

“They can call Mama and she can come pick us up. I know our phone number!”

I smiled. That was kind of funny. Could you imagine it? Some dude calling Mom and telling her that she needed to pick us up in China? No problem. She could just catch the next ferry over. A slow boat to China!

“Let’s try to find the hole first,” I said. “And if we still can’t, we’ll look for someone.” I took his hand and helped him up.

We continued walking through the rows of gray soldiers. I tried to remember what I had learned about them when I did my project on China for school. Something about a couple of farmers finding them when they were digging a well. I think it was in the 1970s. It was a huge discovery. Archeologists ended up uncovering thousands of them. I couldn’t believe I was seeing them in person.

I looked up. That’s when I noticed we were in a building. Above our heads was an arched roof. Rectangular lights lit up the whole thing. Windows lined the outer wall, and it looked like there was a railed walkway above us around the perimeter. Then it made sense. I knew exactly where we were. We were in the Museum of the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an, China. This was the pit where the soldiers were displayed.

About the Author

Sherry Ellis is an award-winning author and professional musician who plays and teaches the violin, viola, and piano.

When she is not writing or engaged in musical activities, she can be found doing household chores, hiking, or exploring the world. Sherry, her husband, and their two children live in Atlanta, Georgia.

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