The Crystal Sea

Unlike his classmates, ten-year-old Jules is dreading the upcoming summer. While they're off having fun, he's sure his time will be spent performing tedious chores in the family bean store, The Beanery . Already he's been tasked with sorting thousands of coffee beans just by their smell, an impossible task that could take weeks. But when he captures a pint-sized, trash-talking woodland troll under a gardening bucket, he is drawn into a mystical world hidden deep in the woods behind his home, a world full of unimaginable splendor--as well as immeasurable danger. The Crystal Sea relates the conclusion of Jules's adventure, which began with the separately-published book titled The Map of Eternity .