A haunted house. Two horrible stepbrothers. One unforgettable friendship.
Sherman Freester thought moving to a new town with his blended family would be tough—but he didn’t expect his new house to be haunted! Luckily, Yits, a young Yevins on his first mission, is ready to help. Together, they banish the ghost, form a secret friendship, and discover a world full of magic, mischief, and surprises.
With Yits learning about humans—and Sherman teaching him about baseball—Sherman finally finds the courage to stand up to his stepbrothers. Full of humor, heart, Yits Yevins is a magical, laugh-out-loud adventure about bravery, friendship, and discovering that shadows can hide the most extraordinary things.
Praise for Yits Yevins
“Yits Yevins is OUTSTANDING! Baseball, bullying, sibling rivalry, a Big Ugly Ghost, grammar lessons, writing advice, and an Abbot and Costello routine to boot. What’s not to love? Beautifully written. I could not put it down. It’s a home run.”
—Roland Smith, author of Peak
“Yits Yevins was so much fun to read that I roared through it in a single sitting, marveling the whole time at the world Thomas Cochran created and jealously wondering how he was able to pull it off with such ease and conviction. A beautiful, vividly imagined story that demonstrates on every page why I and so many others regard Cochran as one of the best storytellers at work today.”
—John Ed Bradley, author of It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium
“Thomas Cochran is a master storyteller, and in Yits Yevins he gives us a master class in writing—the joy of language, of character, of structure and plot. His casually instructive narrator—clever, winking, confiding, whispering wisely from the sidelines—gives us stories within stories of a boy and his unlikely friend who triumph in protection, baseball, and life. But not without thorough preparation, faultless execution, and unselfish affection. Cochran, like Sherman Freester, knows how to hit it out of the park.”
—Thomas Fox Averill, Professor Emeritus, Washburn University, O. Henry Award winner
