Books with author Allen Scovil

A nameless threat hangs over a boy who loves playing the trading-card game, Rune Matrix; and when he lays down a new card he received under mysterious circumstances, he's thrown into the Land of the Heart, a fantastic game world where his feelings and beliefs take on lives of their own.A talking owl offers him a quest, to find the Mount of Omnia; but since all the boy wants is to get back home, he accepts the simpler-sounding quest of a friendly crow, and goes in search of the huge Black Gate standing somewhere in the depths of the Forest of Darkness. However, opening that gate ends up involving a bigger quest the crow had neglected to mention.Suffering extremes of cold, heat, rain, and snow, the boy wanders the entire Land in search of the required black medallions; but once he's found them all, he's thrown into a nasty trap that puts him face-to-face with his worst nightmare.He has the clues. Will he be able to put them together before he gets pulled into this nightmarish pit? ... the Abyss of Nil.

It's time to get behind the football team with an impossible dream!What happens when eleven llamas unknowingly eat the ashes of one of the greatest footballers of all time? They become brilliant at football, of course! Managed by eleven-year-old Tim, his unusual friend Cairo and Scottish World Cup-winner McCloud (yes that 'happened' apparently), Llama United goes on an amazing cup run. But who wants to lose to a team of stupid llamas? Nobody, that's who!Rival teams will do anything in their power to stop Llama United in its tracks. When the best cup in the world is at stake, football can be a nasty old business . . .Scott Allen's Llama United is full of football funnies and laugh-a-minute llamas, illustrated by Sarah Horne.Support the team in the second hilarious Llama United book when they go to the World Cup in Llamas Go Large.

And so a new game began …… and Sid Meyer must play.Arthur Pye, back in his Land of the Heart again after asking Game Master Jesus to help a bully named Sid, sets out on a new quest, and comes across an ailing river whose problem is a wounded dragon blocking one of its brooks. This dragon, the victim of a powerful giant, proves to be the same Sid who had bullied Arthur, who has been transformed to play his part in Arthur’s game, and remembers nothing of his life Outside.Arthur nurses him back to health; but he soon goes off on his own, seeking revenge on the giant, and Arthur spends the next while getting him out of one fix after another. However, finally accepting that he can’t deflect Sid from his purpose, Arthur joins him and trains him to fight monsters, as the two of them head towards the mountain where the giant lives.Sid loses his first battle with the giant, and goes off with a dodgy gambler to build up his strength and skill so that he can try again. But a condition of the gambler’s help is that he must enter a showdown against Lord Day-star’s stone warrior.He must find within himself the strength to go up against this new opponent, and then face his giant once more because, in his own Land of the Heart, the dread Lord Justicium waits, a foe who will not be denied.

Finding himself in a new and heavily-shadowed Land of the Heart, Arthur Pye has to help a girl, Amy, to leave her Abyss of Nil, where a massive swarm of lies has been holding her captive.The eight demons who have taken over her Land make every effort to thwart his plans to save her; and, when he tries to help her get rid of the lies by teaching her what is true, one of those demons snatches her away to the castle of the demon lord, where she is imprisoned.When she finally calls on the Game Master for help, her bodyguard angel appears and helps her to escape. But she then quickly falls into the clutches of one after another of the demons. She is even taught magic, only to be thrown into a trap because of it.Arthur, attempting to get her out of the fiendish labyrinth where she ends up being imprisoned, is himself blocked by the plots of the demons, and must fulfil a quest before being allowed to enter the place. But then, permission in hand, he is kidnapped by the entire team of demons, and sealed away.Will Amy find her way out of the labyrinth and make Game Master Jesus the lord of her Land in spite of the demons? Can Arthur finally get away from those demons and rescue her? Or will the demons succeed in their plot to crush Amy’s spirit and keep her for their own?

"Baseball got in me when I was little. It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me. It's a disease." —Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989)Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every New Englander, the Boston Red Sox are an institution: kids grow up listening to the Sox on the radio or watching ballgames with their families on a hot summer night. No Sox fan ever forgets his or her first visit to Boston's Fenway Park and its storied Green Monster. The dedication of “Red Sox Nation” is unmatched in the world of sports, and when the “Curse of the Bambino” was finally broken in 2004, New Englanders cheered and cried with joy.500 GREAT BOSTON RED SOX QUOTES is the perfect companion to a baseball lover’s summer. It will rekindle those special memories of afternoons sitting in the bleachers at Fenway Park—the smell of the hot dogs, the crack of the bats, and the cheers of the crowd. Including memorable quotes by all-time greats like Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Carl Yastrzemski, to more current favorites like Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, David Ortiz, and Dustin Pedroia—and many, many, players in between—this book will broaden every Red Sox fan’s love of the game. "I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it." —Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher (1984-1996)

Llama United are the football team with a World Cup dream!Llama United has gone from strength to strength after their first Cup win, gaining fame and fortune along the way. Sadly the England football team is not having the same success and, with the World Cup looming, their manager is desperate to find a magic ingredient to beat their bitter rivals. Friends (and llama managers) Tim and Cairo have just that ingredient and agree to loan some of Llama United's top players. But not everything is plain sailing and, with Cairo strangely distracted by the rival team, and the llamas having trouble settling in, Tim has his work cut out for him. It seems not everybody wants to support the team with an impossible dream . . . Llamas Go Large: A World Cup Story is the second hilarious Llama United book from Scott Allen, full of football funnies and laugh-a-minute llamas, illustrated by Sarah Horne.

Kids around the world are fascinated, even obsessed, with dinosaurs. With all the easy-to-remember (and G-rated, too!) jokes inside the pages of 101 Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes, your children can add a roar of humor to all that dinosaur fascination. The book is filled with pun-laden jokes and riddles both silly and strange. It's sure to be your child's backseat companion during the ride home after your next trip to the Natural History Museum!

What happens when eleven llamas unknowingly eat the ashes of one of the greatest footballers of all time? They become brilliant at football, of course! Managed by eleven-year-old Tim, his unusual friend Cairo and Scottish World Cup-winner McCloud (yes that *happened* apparently), Llama United goes on an amazing cup run. But who wants to lose to a team of stupid llamas? Nobody, that's who!Rival teams will do anything in their power to stop Llama United in its tracks. When the best cup in the world is at stake, football can be a nasty old business . . .Illustrated throughout by Sarah Horne, it's time to get behind the team with an impossible dream!

Llama United has gone from strength to strength after their first Cup win, gaining fame and fortune along the way. Sadly the England football team is not having the same success and, with the World Cup looming, their manager is desperate to find a magic ingredient to beat their bitter rivals. Friends (and llama managers) Tim and Cairo have just that ingredient and agree to loan some of Llama United's top players. But not everything is plain sailing and, with Cairo strangely distracted by the rival team, and the llamas having trouble settling in, Tim has his work cut out for him. It seems not everybody wants to support the team with an impossible dream . . . Llamas Go Large is the second hilarious Llama United book from Scott Allen, full of football funnies and laugh-a-minute llamas, illustrated by Sarah Horne.

One horrible night, Marcus, a runaway teenager, is suddenly seized by men in black masks. They throw him into a van and administer a sleeping serum. When Marcus wakes up, he's surprised to discover a tattoo on his arm that reads, "Marcus1125." He soon learns that he is part of a radical group's cruel experiment called Survival Op, a test that gauges the neurological, physical, and emotional endurance levels of individuals who must survive in extreme situations. With this information, the group will be able to better assist their soldiers in the field. Taken to an isolated island in the Bermuda Triangle by the Survival Op personnel, Marcus's objective is simple: to survive no matter what happens. Marcus tries to adjust to his new environment behind the electric fence. When "Lynn312", another runaway teenager, is thrown into his life, the two put their wits together to increase their chances of survival. Battling overwhelming hunger, harsh weather conditions, and ferociously thick vegetation, Marcus and Lynn struggle constantly to stay alive. But none of their obstacles compare to the fear of being hunted by the Survival Op assassins. Worse, a vicious creature lurks in the wilderness, waiting to catch them. Can Marcus and Lynn find a way to survive, or is their fate already sealed?

Dropped into Rick's Land of the Heart, Arthur discovers that Rick is hidden inside a castle with no way in. He endures a hellish seven-day ordeal so that the outer wall can be destroyed and he can haul the reluctant Rick out to play the Game Master's game.However, to get to the Mount of Omnia and win that game, Rick must find a way to deal with his Abyss of Nil, a vast sea of the lies he's made a part of his life. Although hounded by his consciencehe opts for his own quest, to persuade a great dragon to fly him over the Abyss instead of him walking through it; but the dragon, in exchange, wants a dark gem called the Heart of Darkness.With Arthur's help, Rick finds that gem, but is betrayed by the dragon, who throws him into the Abyss. Game Over.Is there any way for Arthur to reach Rick now? Or will Rick remain trapped by his lies within ... The Fortress With No Door?

It’s 2079, and Ricky, a young teen boy, hovers between life and death. He is granted a “Great and Terrible” destiny and awakes in a cutting-edge robotic body. As he, now a robotic human, searches for his place in a world of carnate humans—those made of flesh—he falls in with the cult-like followers of the anointed one who are on the run from the emperor of the world.The emperor and his so-called family make up a vast serpentine evil that has entwined itself throughout the world’s power structures. When Ricky connects with the network, he discovers secrets that threaten the base of the emperor’s power. So the emperor seeks to destroy him and the two other robotic people who have been thrown together with him in an improbable alliance.On the run from the emperor’s secret police, can they find a way to cut off the head of the snake before it inflicts a fatal bite on them?