Can't sleep? Whatever you do, stay away from the Insomnimania website, where anonymous people live out anonymous fantasies--and where the line between make-believe and reality is a deadly blur. You might become the next victim of a homicidal clown na...
A curriculum-related series separates fact from fiction as it follows America's quest to fulfill its "manifest destiny" through westward movement and describes how this expansion influenced the way Americans view themselves as a nation....
A strange discovery leads Gregory and Yolanda into a familiar legend. But the story isn’t happening the way it’s supposed to -- and that’s causing serious trouble in our own world....
YA Historical Fiction also loved by many adults.
1840's America--a bright, headstrong girl faces challenges in a Shaker community and in Boston. Forced from her home and away from her beloved father, Anna is sent to live among the stern people cal...
Aided by their eccentric science teacher and Gregory’s mysterious red monocle, Gregory and Yolanda travel into the King Arthur legend to save today’s “real” world from a legendary threat. As they ally themselves with the magician Merlin and h...
The United States of America in the late 1840s.. Due to dire family circumstances, fourteen-year-old Anna is sent to live among the stern people called Shakers. Their strict lifestyle and strange ways prove difficult for the bright, headstrong girl. ...
A young adult adventure with a completely new take on the Greek Olympian gods.When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his d...
Did you ever get the strangest feeling you've NEVER been here before? Once upon a time in Los Angeles, an addled psychiatrist named Hector Glasco was vainly trying to treat a jaded celebrity named Hilary, who suffered from a chronic and perhaps pote...
When middle-schoolers Gregory Guest and Yolanda Torres travel back to the land of legend, they find themselves in a completely unexpected story and a reality full of new dangers -- including one very persistent dragon. This time, their adventures inc...
Near the end of the Terminal Classic Mayan period, a high priest commits a murder where a sacrifice is needed. The consequences of his deed will reach across worlds and ages. In our own time, Lydia Rosenstrom is a master translator working with an ar...
Did you ever get the feeling you've NEVER been here before? That’s JAMAIS VU! Real people, fictional world! Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin wreaked playful havoc on consensus reality in their groundbreaking novel The Jamais Vu Papers. Readers were left ...
A killer is stalking the Internet ... An animated clown haunts an online maze called Insomnimania, where he stages scenes from real-life murders from far-flung places. No one knows how many Insomnimania subscribers Auggie has killed, or where he migh...
Slavery in the United States became illegal in the 1860s. Before that, many slaves found their way north by following the Big Dipper, or the Drinking Gourd as they called it. Our story begins in 1880 with Old Ellie and Old Sam, two escaped slaves who...
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was killed by an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865. This play draws from the writings of many of those people and from Lincoln himself....
In the early 1800s, white settlers and missionaries were intent on bringing the English language to the illiterate Native Americans. Sequoyah was intrigued by these leaves of paper with strange marks that talked. Doing what no one had ever done be...
In 1845, Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography became a bestseller. Many readers could not believe that such a brilliant writer was ever a slave. When Douglass wrote the book, slavery had not yet ended so he kept secret how he escaped from Ma...
An old story retold for a new time. This colorfully illustrated book is a new take on a tale dating to Shakespeare's days-the one about a king who falls in love with a beggar woman. Does he woo her and marry her and make her his queen? In this retell...