Mandy Pandy and the Glass Ridden Sky

By: John Anthony Davis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Mandy Pandy's hard-won peace is shattered when the stars begin to blink.

In the Bamboo Grove, a new harmony had taken root—one woven with memory, loss, and the quiet beauty of a garden grown from fear. Mandy, a gentle red panda keeper, finally feels safe with her firefly friend Flick and her shadow-companion Whisper beside her. But when constellations start vanishing from the night sky, returning with cold, alien light, a deeper terror unfolds.

Cracks are spreading in the Glass-Hidden Sky—the crystalline barrier that protects their world. Through these fractures falls the Glaze: silent seeds of perfect, geometric order that transform living moss into crystal chessboards, singing springs into metronomic drones, and threaten to turn the vibrant Grove into a frozen, silent sculpture garden. The Unformer, a consciousness of pure, sterile logic from beyond the sky, is pressing in. It doesn't seek to destroy life, but to "perfect" it—to erase all mess, music, and story into flawless, eternal stillness.

Facing an enemy that feeds on attention and fears complexity, Mandy knows they cannot fight with force. With her friends—an ancient firefly mathematician, a water singer who controls reflection, and a shadow who is learning to touch the void—she must devise a defense more beautiful than any attack. They will compose a grand, untidy symphony of light, sound, and story: a living argument against silence, a celebration of glorious chaos meant to baffle a god of pure order.

But as the cracks widen and the Glaze takes hold, Mandy discovers the true battle isn't in the sky above, but within themselves. To save everything they love, they must embrace their own imperfections, tell their messy, vulnerable stories, and prove that a flawed, singing, growing world is more precious than a perfect, silent one.

A captivating middle-grade fantasy for readers aged 10-15, perfect for fans of lyrical adventures, talking animal companions, and stories where friendship and creativity face cosmic challenges.