From the Clinic and Classroom  ·  No Magic Wand

The Solid Trail

Adventure first. The skill is the only way through.

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD  &  Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

10adventures
8–17reader ages
12chapters each
0magic wands
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The one craft rule across all ten

Skip the skill and the plot gets worse — the same chapter.

No speeches. No lectures tucked behind a dragon. In every book, a brass lock, a trail card, a dead radio, a moving room or a coach's clipboard only works when the kid does the real thing. Skip it, and the rail yard floods with trouble, the storm closes in, the door slams twice.

  1. 01

    The adventure beat

    A chase, a storm, a blackout, a river at flood stage. Something real is moving.

  2. 02

    The choice

    The old move is fast and familiar. The skill is slower and true. The reader watches the kid choose.

  3. 03

    The cost of skipping

    Choose the old move and things get worse — on the page, right now, not three books later.

  4. 04

    The turn

    The story shifts. Not a miracle — a door that opens because someone did the work.

Endings are ordinary competence, not a cure.

Ten adventures · One series

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Tap any cover for its trailer: the setting, the rule of its world, and the one move that gets everyone through.

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    For kids & teens

    No lectures. Just locks, storms, radios and rivers.

    Chases through rail yards. Echoes on a ridge. A room that rearranges itself in the dark. These are adventures first — and the hero wins by doing something you could actually do tomorrow.

    For parents & caregivers

    The skill your kid needs, hidden inside the story they can’t put down.

    Naming feelings, asking for help, repairing after a blow-up, putting the phone facedown, calling a safe adult early. Every book ends on ordinary competence your family can recognize — not a fairy-tale cure.

    For educators & counselors

    Built for the circle, the classroom and the session.

    Twelve tight chapters, a clear in-world rule, talk-back questions, field notes, a glossary and an adult note in every book. Ready for read-alouds, small groups, and the kid in the back row who never raises a hand.

    Inside every book

    Built like a field guide. Reads like a movie.

    I. Front matter

    • Title page & dedication
    • A note to the reader
    • A content note — no surprises
    • The cast
    • The in-world rule

    II. Twelve chapters

    • Adventure beat — something real is moving
    • The choice — old move or the skill
    • The cost of skipping — worse, right now
    • The turn — earned, not magic

    III. Back matter

    • Field notes
    • Talk-back questions
    • A note for the adults
    • Glossary
    • An optional faith line
    • The series handoff

    Every adventure opens its own trilogy. Learn it. Stress-test it. Own it when nobody is scoring.

    Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker and Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker smiling in front of a Christmas tree and fireplace

    The authors

    From the clinic.
    From the classroom.

    Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker, PhD, LMHC

    “Dr. RAD” · The Attachment Code Breaker

    Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker, MA

    Together they have spent their working lives in the rooms where kids are hurting and the rooms where kids are learning. The Solid Trail carries what they know from both into ten stories with no magic wand — just a kid, a hard night, and the one move that works.

    “Story first. The skill is the key.”

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