WOGLATCH

About the Book

• Fantasy-adventure novel for teenagers, with original illustrations by a junior high school reader. • Dramatically and visually engaging story that can support English language instruction through vocabulary enrichment and by modeling creative writing skills such as use of dialogue and vivid description. • Complementary reading relevant to social studies: Moral themes, social relationships and responsibilities, intergenerational relationships, natural resources and survival, social conflict situations.

About the Author

Dennis W. Schwesinger went to college to become a writer and graduated as an inventor of medical technology. He started writing “Wog-latch” two weeks after the passing of his wife. While dealing with unspeakable loss and single-handedly parenting their five young children, he sought emotional escape in writing this fantasy story about an alternate dimension world. Such writing can help people cope with dramatic realities by conjuring up positive resolutions. The main characters in the novel are joyful and enthusiastic in their pursuits, as they undertake the salvation their clans fixated on the destruction of their kin on the other side of the “No Person Space.”