The Sea of Tranquility

Lowood is where the series of stories starts. It’s a town on Van Diemen’s Island which is part of Kingsland although Kingsland is a separate, larger island above the small heart shaped island of Van Diemen’s Land where two cousins, Frank and Minnow, live.

The SWABS series includes Book 1: TBT - The Bullied Twins & Book 2: TDB - The Devious Bully. In TBT Frank and Minnow hear of the Land of the Long Silver Cloud and Kraken Atoll but we don’t visit them. And then in TDB the cousins visit both the Atoll and the Land of the Long Silver Cloud.

Solo and Tole Dew grew up on Dragollan and we hear about that in The Magic Time Pirates. In the same book Eyelak Theeve wins a scholarship to attend a conference on homelessness in Drage on Dragol Island. (Of course, Eyelak does not deserve this scholarship because she’s actually causing homelessness.)

In The Time Virus and Time Wizard we hear about the Land of Ice and Fire which is where Ice-Witches come from.

In The Magic Time Pirates we meet Petrel Shearwater and Tole Dew who’ve been living on the Island of Flames to restore magic to the people there, and especially to teach children to feel safe again after a prolonged war that destroyed much of the island.

In The Magic Time Pirates Tole says:

I was born near Christmas on a small island called Dragollan. The nearest big block of land to us is Kingsland which is huge, and it has a little island underneath it called Van Diemen’s Island. It’s about half the size of Dragollan and it’s governed by Kingsland. Dragollan used to be governed by Kingsland too until the people of Dragollan separated to become a different country altogether. After that Dragollan became really wealthy because we found some amazing resources hidden in our island and under the sea. Below us is the Island of Flames and then even further away is the Land of Ice and Fire.

Dragollan has a spiritual relationship with the Islands of Time which are in another realm. My grandfather has been to the Islands of Time many times. I hope to study there when I am older.

I really want to learn to time travel.

I can’t wait.