The last book in the serious is “The Green Ember Book II: Ember Falls”, which was released Sept. 13. S.D. Smith is an children’s’ author from Beckley, W.Va.

The Green Ember series will captivate and delight young readers. When I was 13 or 14, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series was my reading obsession. If memory serves, that summer, I’d ...