The Magic Tree House Book 9, "Dolphins at Daybreak" is an exciting and educational children's fiction book written by Mary Pope Osborne. This book is part of a series that follows the adventures of two siblings, Jack and Annie, as they travel to different places and time periods using a magical tree house. In this particular installment, Jack and Annie find themselves transported to the ocean where they encounter dolphins. They learn that they have been sent on a mission by Morgan le Fay, the magical librarian of the tree house, to find a special item called a "ship's log." The log holds the key to the survival of dolphins and their habitat. Throughout the book, Jack and Annie experience the wonders of the ocean and meet various sea creatures, including dolphins, sharks, and even an octopus.
I have known LaSara FireFox pretty much all her life-she was born and grew up on the land in the large Hippie homesteading community where I also lived for many years. In fact, she has been my favorite niece, and I her favorite uncle, over three decades. And I can assure you that LaSara has always been a Sexy Witch! I cannot imagine anyone more dedicated to her Path, her family, her children, her calling, and the greater causes of social justice, feminism, and environmental stewardship. She has served as Priestess and President of the Pagan church I founded, as well as President of the communal Ranch. LaSara writes out of a lifelong commitment of deepest integrity, and in Sexy Witch, she lays it all out in unsparing frankness and personal vulnerability. She is your longed-for sister, lover, and confidante girlfriend-and she really knows what shes talking about! LaSara offers you authentic magick to transform your life into one of empowered radiance and self-assured confidence, as she cuts to the heart of the deepest woundings, shames, and insecurities of all women with the laser scalpel of her insight, experience, and wisdom. This book will become your treasured companion on your journey towards full realization of your glorious sexiness! -Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard
LaSara offers you authentic magick to transform your life into one of empowered radiance and self-assured confidence, as she cuts to the heart of the deepest woundings, shames, and insecurities of all women with the laser scalpel of her insight, experience, and wisdom. Rather, I wanted it to demonstrate how through the Witch s Way the reader can attract and keep an ideal partner, build a greater connection with each other, ramp up their sensual pleasure, and even conceive more easily, if that s their desire.
Throughout the book, Jack and Annie experience the wonders of the ocean and meet various sea creatures, including dolphins, sharks, and even an octopus. They learn about the importance of conservation and the challenges faced by marine animals due to pollution and climate change. As they dive deeper into their mission, Jack and Annie must solve riddles and work together to retrieve the ship's log, all while encountering thrilling and sometimes dangerous situations.
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Employing a unique blend of feminism and magick, this refreshing guide to female self-empowerment helps women acknowledge the beauty, strength, and sexiness within themselves. Utterly honest and captivating, LaSara FireFox banishes the damaging misconceptions and shame often associated with female sexuality and sheds light on what it truly means to be a “Sexy Witch.”
Each of the seven lessons-covering issues of body image, menstruation, genital exploration, self-acceptance, mentors, and gender-include fun facts, illuminating quotes, and exercises for nurturing the body and spirit. The second half of the book is devoted to rituals-to be practiced alone or with others-that celebrate one's power as a woman, a sexual being, and a Witch.
”LaSara Firefox is a dazzling inspiration and firestarter to everyone who encounters her.”
- Susie Bright, author of Full Exposure
“LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn't ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure. Accessible and engaging whether or not you consider yourself a 'witch,' Sexy Witch is a fabulous book full of serious fun.”
- Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide
Second-generation Witch and ordained Priestess, LaSara FireFox (California) has been writing about sexuality and spirituality for over a decade. She was a columnist for NewWitch magazine and has appeared on Playboy TV's Sexcetera and Canada's SexTV. FireFox is also a graduate of the acclaimed San Francisco Sex Information human sexuality intensive.
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From the Publisher:LaSara Firefox is a dazzling inspiration and firestarter to everyone who encounters her. -Susie Bright, author of Full Exposure
LaSara Firefox is a genius! You couldn't ask for a better guide to take you on this emboldening adventure. and engaging whether or not you consider yourself a witch, Sexy Witch is a fabulous book full of serious fun. -Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mama Survival Guide, Atlas of the Human Heart and Whatever, Mom!
All acts of love and pleasure will be your rituals, too, once you get turned on to your own erotic and spiritual power with LaSara's Sexy Witch as your guide. -Carol Queen, .author, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture
As a serious spiritual pragmatist, I am extremely impressed by this volume's detailed command of what works-what really works-when it comes to the deep core of spiritually turned-on women's sexuality. The best teacher is truth, and LaSara FireFox is one helluva Sexy Witch. -Jordan Gruber, Founder & CEO, Enlightenment.Com
Wake up and smell the pussy! Sexy Witch is so much more than your typical book of love spells. It's the antidote to that pervasive cultural brainwashing that tries to turn us all into quiet, pretty, scentless Barbie dolls. People say that sex, religion, and politics are the three things you shouldn't discuss in polite company--well, fuck that! As Firefox shows, they are all incredibly important and intimately related, and need to get talked about. I wish every woman in the world would read this book and more importantly, DO this book. Sexy Witch isn't meant to be theory sitting on a shelf. It's a tool for transformation. -Jennifer Hunter, author of 21st Century Wicca and Rites of Pleasure
I have known LaSara FireFox pretty much all her life-she was born and grew up on the land in the large Hippie homesteading community where I also lived for many years. In fact, she has been my favorite niece, and I her favorite uncle, over three decades. And I can assure you that LaSara has always been a Sexy Witch! I cannot imagine anyone more dedicated to her Path, her family, her children, her calling, and the greater causes of social justice, feminism, and environmental stewardship. She has served as Priestess and President of the Pagan church I founded, as well as President of the communal Ranch. LaSara writes out of a lifelong commitment of deepest integrity, and in Sexy Witch, she lays it all out in unsparing frankness and personal vulnerability. She is your longed-for sister, lover, and confidante girlfriend-and she really knows what shes talking about! LaSara offers you authentic magick to transform your life into one of empowered radiance and self-assured confidence, as she cuts to the heart of the deepest woundings, shames, and insecurities of all women with the laser scalpel of her insight, experience, and wisdom. This book will become your treasured companion on your journey towards full realization of your glorious sexiness! -Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard
In the mid 1980s I helped conduct a ritual with an insightful teenager Lasara FireFox, already known for rattling the cages of prudery and convention, monotheism, cynicism and self doubt. the publication of Sexy Witch she continues to both envision and further a new/ancient paradigm of wholeness, empowerment, expression and balance. my quarter century of mentoring with the Earthen Spirituality Project, Ive seen that how we perceive and experience our selves shapes how we approach and effect everything and everyone around us. are so much more than thinkers, managers or victims, we are sublimely wild beings called to reawaken and heal this convoluted world. beginning with the vital reinhabitation of our native Earth, our intrinsic responsibilities, our sacred sentient bodies and essential Gaian bliss. is the role of the Seeker or Witch, after all, to embrace both the work and the rewards. Lasaras potent stories, rituals and practices women of all ages (and men as well!) are offered an opportunity to reclaim that which was always and truly ours: our magickal sexuality, our hope and power. -Jesse Wolf Hardin, author of Gaia Eros: Reconnecting To The Magic & Spirit Of Nature
A 21st Century toolkit for today's warrior witch! LaSara Firefox's Sexy Witch initiates readers into the multi-faceted mysteries of magick, mind and ritual. From the sacred to the profane, from the spiritual to the physical, a must-read for all modern witchy women. -Richard Metzger, The Disinformation Company Ltd.
This witty and smart, well-researched gem of a book has the power to transform the feminist movement at the radical roots - womens bodies and their sexuality. any woman who wants to understand, enhance, reclaim or heal her sexuality, this book is a must. to liberate your sisters as well as the men and women who love them. -Anodea Judith, Ph.D., author of Wheels of Life and Eastern Body, Western Mind.
A radical and subversive text for transformation and empowerment. The practices in this book have the potential for deep healing and complete awakening. A must read for all who wish to change the world. -Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx
Sexy Witch awakens the inner spiritual healer by cultivating the intuitive goddess within all women. In the true spirit of sensual and sexual liberation, LaSara teaches you how to conjure powerful inherent magic through fun, juicy, and provocative rituals. Sexy Witch offers a brilliant searchlight along this mysterious and mystical road of self-transformation and self-discovery. This is groundbreaking and visionary ritual magic for rebuilding womens self-esteem and for nurturing the sacred within. Thank you, LaSara, for touching my soul with your vibrant, empowering and visionary words of wisdom. -Wendy-O Matik, author of Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships
The scared practical feminine in Sexy Witch is spellbinding. This no nonsense funny hip book educates us in the finer arts of sex and witchcraft. -Sophia, author of Fortune Telling with Playing Cards and Fortune in a Coffee Cup.
A call to sexual, magickal and personal initiation sure to transform the reader-male, female or otherwise. Clear, creative, fun and empowering! I'll never look at my witch sisters the same way again. Thank you LaSara. -Christopher Penczak, author of Gay Witchcraft, The Outer Temple of Witchcraft and Sons of the Goddess
Sexy Witch is so many things wrapped into one fantastic book! Its a manual of magick, a manifesto for the self, a revealing mirror held up to an image obsessed society and a tool for positive transformation. Its filled with insights into history, culture, gender, psychology, ritual and the nature of feminine power! - Josh Wetzel, author of The Paradigmal Pirate
This incredible Sexy Witch, LaSara W. Firefox, is a modern-day Emma Goldman, Dr. Susan Block and Flo Kennedy rolled into one. Her writings are sunshine in a dark era of repression and theocracy. The book Sexy Witch is a reminder of the beauty of sexuality and the humanity that is possible when people are not programmed by anti-freedom forces. I hope everyone in the nation has an opportunity to read it. -Rev. Bookburn, RadioVolta.org
LaSara FireFox is a cutting-edge Witch, who encourages us to experience life directly and totally, with every ounce of mind, body and spirit. Sexy Witch makes magick come alive! -Charles Gatewood, family photographer of the sexual underground. Books: Photography for Perverts, Badlands, True Blood, Forbidden Photographs.
About the Author:LaSara Firefox is a writer, ritualist, sex-positive activist and educator, and a designer/facilitator of a wide variety of interactive, exploration-based workshops.
Firefox is a family-traditions Witch and a second
generation ordained Pagan Priestess. She has been writing about sexuality and spirituality for over a decade. Her workshops, which take place anywhere from Pagan gatherings to universities, to community centers, to private living rooms, heavily involve these subjects.
Firefox has been featured on Sony Pictures
Television’s “Life and Style,” Playboy TV’s “Sexcetera, and the Canadian program “SexTV.” A discerning and playful writer, LaSara has contributed to Penthouse, newWitch, and Gauntlet magazines. She is also a regular sex advice columnist in the Bullhorn Rag. Sexy Witch is her loud and proud first book.
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They also meet a helpful dolphin named Kathleen, who guides them on their journey. "Dolphins at Daybreak" not only entertains young readers with its adventure-filled plot but also provides them with valuable information about marine life and the importance of protecting our oceans. The book combines fiction and non-fiction elements seamlessly, making it an engaging and educational reading experience. Overall, "Dolphins at Daybreak" is a captivating addition to the Magic Tree House series, taking young readers on a thrilling undersea adventure while teaching them important lessons about marine conservation. With its engaging storyline and educational content, this book is sure to enthrall young readers and spark their curiosity about the world around them..
Reviews for "Adventure Awaits: Magic Tree House Book 9 and Beyond"
1. John - 2/5 - I was really disappointed with "Magic Tree House Book 9". I found the story to be dull and lacking in excitement. The characters felt flat and I couldn't connect with them at all. The concept of time travel could have been interesting, but the execution fell flat. Overall, I was left feeling bored and uninterested throughout the entire book.
2. Sarah - 3/5 - I had high hopes for "Magic Tree House Book 9" based on the previous books in the series, but unfortunately, it didn't meet my expectations. The plot felt repetitive and predictable. Additionally, the writing style was simple, making it difficult for me to fully immerse myself in the story. While it's a decent children's book, it left me wanting more depth and complexity.
3. Alex - 2/5 - I found "Magic Tree House Book 9" to be lacking substance. The story felt rushed and poorly developed. The dialogue between the characters was simplistic and lacked depth. I also had issues with the pacing, which made it hard for me to stay engaged. Overall, I was disappointed with this installment in the series and felt like it was a missed opportunity for a more engaging adventure.
4. Emily - 2/5 - As a long-time fan of the Magic Tree House series, I was let down by Book 9. The plot felt repetitive and formulaic, lacking the excitement and freshness of previous books. The characters also felt stagnant and uninteresting. Overall, it was a disappointing read that didn't live up to the standards set by the earlier books in the series.
5. Mark - 2/5 - "Magic Tree House Book 9" was a letdown for me. The story lacked depth and complexity, making it feel like a watered-down version of the previous books. The time travel aspect could have been an exciting concept, but it fell flat in execution. The characters felt one-dimensional and the writing style lacked energy. I was left feeling uninterested and underwhelmed by this installment.