Here’s the set-up for Mike Lewis’ Changers’ Summer, just $2.99 on Kindle:

One hundred years ago, a group of mysterious scientists took charge of the Earth’s weather in order to control climate change. Their experiments damaged the planet and in the ensuing chaos they disappeared.

Tom is a twelve year old boy living on a farming commune in a world of constant cloud and acid rain. When one of the “Changers” appears in the grain barn out of thin air, Tom is forced into an adventure along with his voice-enhanced dog Bess, a traveling entertainer named Alison and two of the Changers.

The Changers are back, but are they everything they seem?  Tom and Alison have to decide between family and friends, and helping the Changers repair their world.

Changers’ Summer is a Young Adult/Children’s dystopian science fiction novel about the consequences of science.

From the reviewers:

It is books like these that support my belief that in the realms of self publishing you will find stories that are just as good, if not better, than the fancy, hyped books you’ll find on the shelves of your local bookshop.   In Changers’ Summer, Mike Lewis has created an intriguing post-apocalyptic world that merely hints at what went on to bring it to this point: rats that can build ladders, dogs that can talk, rain that falls in different colours.  This is definitely a book for those who love post-apocalyptic/dystopian reads with a dollop of time travel, plenty of mystery and an accessible sci-fi edge  –  Lyrical Brown

I’m a 5th grade teacher and love reading children’s literature, so that I can keep up with the stories my students would enjoy.  I do think for my level students (10 & 11 year olds) that the book would be a bit over their heads…..But, for a 6th or 7th grader, I think they would really enjoy it.   I really enjoyed this book and feel young adults will also be wanting to read the 2nd book in this trilogy when it becomes available.  –  S. Minow

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Mike Lewis is a writer from Woking in England; the place that the Martians first landed in H G Wells’ War of the Worlds.

This might explain why he writes science fiction and fantasy.

He has written computer games, comic scripts and SF and Fantasy short stories professionally as well as worked as a computer professional and made toy soldiers for a living.

Changers’ Summer is his first Young Adult SF novel.