Books with author Andrew C Andry

It’s time now to unleash the child’s imagination into the real world, as opposed to the imaginary world of authors such as Tolkien, who seems to have spawned so many inferior derivative books.MacGnome is a wooden Scottish gnome with special powers given to the wood he was carved from due to a dramatic lightening strike, whereby he could exhibit feelings.Two boys, Jamie Harris and his friend Todd, kidnap MacGnome and take him on a school field trip to Canada with the full intention of eventually returning him. This upsets Mr. Spenser, the elderly widower, who kept the gnome in his garden as a reminder of his late wife and the many happy times they spent together in Scotland, where they bought the gnome.Macgnome encounters a series of adventures in Canada, before, eventually, he finds himself taken back to Britain and is reunited with Mr Spenser, uninjured and with no harm done. So, all ends happily for Mr Spenser. As well as being highly entertaining, the story teaches an important moral - that selfish actions, regarded as a joke, can have upsetting consequences for those who have an emotional, nostalgic attachment to certain possessions.

Standby for exciting, scary action in this the second of the MacGnome series. Again the action has been set in a real geographical setting. Mr Spenser, MacGnome’s owner, has died and his relatives sell off his bungalow and auction off all his belongings, including MacGnome. Jamie and Todd try to bid for him but they are outbid by a strange warlock called Ceolwulf from Shropshire, who having recognized MacGnome’s special powers, intends to use him in a ceremony at Halloween to rise up thousands of the most evil goblins enabling him to become the most powerful man in the world.At the same time, Jamie and Todd’s father’s are planning to travel up to Shropshire at Halloween to practice for the Boxing Day run up to the Devil’s Chair, on the Stiperstones. As it half term they take Jamie and Todd with them.At the guesthouse the boys befriend Nathan, who lives there. The boys find MacGnome at Ceolwulf’s cottage and discover his plans to hold a ceremony on Halloween night at the Devil’s Chair. However before they can rescue MacGnome, Ceolwulf returns so they have to make a rapid escape.At midnight on Halloween Ceolwulf places MacGnome on the Devil’s Chair and performs the ceremony, raising up thousands of evil goblins that instantly start to attack the boys. But then appears the legendary knight Wild Edric and his men. They snatch up Ceolwulf and take him away screaming with them into their underground imprisonment.

Standby for exciting, scary action in this the second of the MacGnome series. Again the action has been set in a real geographical setting. Mr Spenser, MacGnome's owner, has died and his relatives sell off his bungalow and auction off all his belongings, including MacGnome. Jamie and Todd try to bid for him but they are outbid by a strange warlock called Ceolwulf from Shropshire, who having recognized MacGnome's special powers, intends to use him in a ceremony at Halloween to rise up thousands of the most evil goblins enabling him to become the most powerful man in the world. At the same time, Jamie and Todd's father's are planning to travel up to Shropshire at Halloween to practice for the Boxing Day run up to the Devil's Chair, on the Stiperstones. As it half term they take Jamie and Todd with them. At the guesthouse the boys befriend Nathan, who lives there. The boys find MacGnome at Ceolwulf's cottage and discover his plans to hold a ceremony on Halloween night at the Devil's Chair. However before they can rescue MacGnome, Ceolwulf returns so they have to make a rapid escape. At midnight on Halloween Ceolwulf places MacGnome on the Devil's Chair and performs the ceremony, raising up thousands of evil goblins that instantly start to attack the boys. But then appears the legendary knight Wild Edric and his men. They snatch up Ceolwulf and take him away screaming with them into their underground imprisonment.

Did you know that having a garden gnome reduces the value of a house by 10%. The idea for the third book in the MacGnome serried came from a recent national newspaper story of garden gnomes reducing the value of people’s homes by 10%. Carter Blowbottom, the local Member of Parliament, is the true villain of this smart little story. He exaggerates the claim to 20%, intending to raise his profile for the coming election and plans to introduce a law to get rid of gnomes by recycling them. This immediately causes a panic amongst homeowners who start to put out their gnomes for recycling.MacGnome gets to hear about this and decides to do something about it. As it is Halloween it dawns on him that by using the powers that gave him life on the Stiperstones, he can bring life to all the other gnomes. Come midnight he set his plans into operation, which brings thousands of gnomes to life. Arriving in London at night, hundreds of thousands of gnomes storm Parliament, many scrambling up the building, but the vast majority storm inside, overcoming the security who are paralyzed by amazement at the sight of so many gnomes. Entering the parliament chamber they stop Blowbottom speaking, carry and drag him outside and throw him into the River Thames. Then they make a quick getaway whilst it is still dark to enable them to jump onto lorries and trains to get back to their homes.The people who see all of this on tlevision cannot believe their eyse, thinking it is part of a movie. So they no longer put out their gnomes for recycling and MacGnome has once again saved the day!

Did you know that having a garden gnome reduces the value of a house by 10%. The idea for the third book in the MacGnome series came from a recent national newspaper story of garden gnomes reducing the value of people's homes by 10%. Carter Blowbottom, the local Member of Parliament, is the true villain of this smart little story. He exaggerates the claim to 20%, intending to raise his profile for the coming election and plans to introduce a law to get rid of gnomes by recycling them. This immediately causes a panic amongst homeowners who start to put out their gnomes for recycling. MacGnome gets to hear about this and decides to do something about it. As it is Halloween it dawns on him that by using the powers that gave him life on the Stiperstones, he can bring life to all the other gnomes. Come midnight he set his plans into operation, which brings thousands of gnomes to life. Arriving in London at night, hundreds of thousands of gnomes storm Parliament, many scrambling up the building, but the vast majority storm inside, overcoming the security who are paralyzed by amazement at the sight of so many gnomes. Entering the parliament chamber they stop Blowbottom speaking, carry and drag him outside and throw him into the River Thames. Then they make a quick getaway whilst it is still dark to enable them to jump onto lorries and trains to get back to their homes. The people who see all of this on tlevision cannot believe their eyse, thinking it is part of a movie. So they no longer put out their gnomes for recycling and MacGnome has once again saved the day!

Reckless, first published in 1955, is the heart-warming story of Reckless, a small horse whose faithful service to U.S. Marines during the Korean War boosted morale and made her a national hero. The book is in two parts, with the first describing the life of Reckless and her owner, a young Korean boy. Forced to sell his beloved horse due to family medical needs, Reckless (then named Flame-of-the-Morning) was purchased by Lieutenant Eric Pedersen, who renamed her Reckless for the Recoilless Rifle Platoon, Anti-Tank Division, of the 5th Marines she’d be joining. Part Two describes Reckless' service with the Marines as she carried ammunition, cable-wire and other supplies to frontline troops. She was wounded twice in battle, received two Purple Hearts, and was awarded the rank of staff sergeant. With the end of the war, Reckless was brought to the United States and retired to Camp Pendleton until her death in 1968. In honor of her service, in 2013 the Sgt. Reckless Memorial Monument was dedicated at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Included are 14 pages of photographs.