WAYNE THOMAS BATSON IS THE AUTHOR OF SEVERAL bestselling novels, including The Door Within trilogy, The Isle series, and The Berinfell series. A middle school reading teacher in Maryland for 22 years, Wayne tailors his stories to meet the needs of the young people he cares so deeply about. Wayne writes meaningful adventures set in imaginative locales because he believes that on a deep level, we all dream of doing something that matters and that we all long for another world.