The Key, The Magic Mirror, And The Topaz Ring

Author and poet Jeanette M. Dodge has created a wonderful new book as an heirloom to her children and grandchildren.

Combining the best in children literature with fantasy and time travel, Ms. Dodge takes readers on a fun-filled, sometimes frightening and fascinating trip through time where the past intermingles with the present.

The three-story arc begins innocently enough when seventeen year old Sarah accepts an old key from her dying grandmother Rose.


The key unlocks a hidden room containing a very strange and special mirror that transports Sarah into the past where she lives a complete life. When she transports back to the present she has not aged a day and things were as she left them.


Through a series of magical and unexplained events she is intertwined with her grandmother’s past life and sets in place the events and encounters the people who populate her past and mold her present.


The Key, The Magic Mirror, And The Topaz Ring is an entertaining trilogy that young readers are sure to enjoy. The book stresses the importance of each person’s past and their family. The past comes alive as timelines meld and blend to make an entertaining tale of love, family and legacy.