Books with author Benjamin Lee

Today, over seven billion people walk the planet, and it’s up to a twelve-year-old boy to save them all. Jimmy has just ended a horrific year in the sixth grade. An often bullied introvert coming to terms with the accidental death of his father, Jimmy escapes by burying himself and his emotions in his mother’s textbooks. But when a mystical atlas enters his life, his world, and the future of everything he knows, changes forever. Taken into custody by time traveling warriors, Jimmy is charged with a monumental quest; he must save human culture at all costs. Through time and space, Jimmy and Stewards of Earth battle the evil Silencers who seek to destroy humanity. But does Jimmy have what it takes to save the world while preventing his father’s death? A BOY AND HIS WORLD: THE CRUCIAL MISSIONS OF THE TIME GLIDER is the story of a broken family becoming whole, a seasoned warrior realizing his fate, and a boy becoming the man he was meant to be, all with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.

“All hell breaking loose” is bad enough as an expression, but it’s even worse when it actually happens. King Yama, the eternal judge of the dead, has declared war on all humanity. The hundreds of millions of souls he’s had to judge have finally cracked his mind. With three days before armageddon, the Deity Aid Organization, or DAO, has one last ace up their sleeves. The gods may have faded, but their genes live on in Jake, Anne, and Thomas, miraculous hybrids of human and godly DNA. Together, they must obtain the Broth of Oblivion, the only thing capable of restoring King Yama’s sanity. It will not be easy. King Yama’s demonic lieutenants are already in hot pursuit, and the team must rely on gods, now reduced to shadows of their former selves. Nothing is at it seems, and normalcy died a long time ago. However, there is a much darker force at hand, an evil that is all too…familiar.

A story of hope, love, and unspeakable death in a disappearing Brazilian rainforest. A team of dogged conservationists tries to save a beautiful monkey species, the golden lion tamarin, from certain extinction by reinforcing their numbers with tamarins born in zoos. Will these immigrants learn to find enough to eat, find secure places to sleep, avoid predators, and survive attacks by wild tamarins? Will they find mates and make babies? The technique, known as reintroduction, is new, and the conservationists struggle to find the best method. Can they train the tamarins in zoos to meet the challenges of the wild? Once the monkeys are released in the forest, should the people give them food, shoo away predators, rescue them if they get lost, and treat them if they are injured? Or should they be hands-off, letting the monkeys fend for themselves and become wild as quickly as possible? Beck describes the reintroduction of the first 13 tamarins, capturing their fierce determination to survive, their loves and conflicts, their nurturant families, adorable babies, hidden language, sometimes hilarious attempts to solve the problems of adapting, and the agonizing deaths of those who don't make it. He describes the power and beauty of the rainforest, and the loves, loyalties, conflicts, and sometimes hilarious bumbling by their human caretakers. Challenging their better-known bosses, two women, a zookeeper and a Brazilian field assistant, discover the right way to reintroduce the monkeys. But a well-known Rio citizen almost destroys the program in a callous act of vanity. The story is vivid and authentic; Beck was there and has studied animal thinking and monkey and ape conservation for more than 40 years.

Stories of a scout, growing up in a Mormon troop, from when he was just turning twelve to getting his Eagle at the age of sixteen. A story of a favorite campout, where the hike was almost more than he could handle, and a 100-foot wall of water sweeping him off his feet. Fishing stories that you won't believe. Stories of how a scout troop turned a tall skinny kid in to a young man ready for whatever life had in store for him.These are short stories told by a grown man of his memories of being a young scout, learning the rules and ways of life. Going to Scout Camps, learning how to cook over an open fire. Stories that scared him silly, stories that made him laugh, stories that made him cry.Stories where he learned how to be trustworthy of his actions, loyal to his fellow scouts, helpful to others, and a good friend. He learned to be courteous, kind, obedient of his leaders, cheerful as activities were near, and thrifty with the few dollars he might have had. He was sometimes brave and clean, though usually more brave than clean, and learned to be reverent when that time came upon him.

Ever wish for a book that had everything? Well, your wish has just come true.Adam is an everyday sixth grader until a wormhole changes his life forever. Now allied with the ghost, Bellinimus, he must use the power of words to stop an evil wizard from destroying the world.With teleportation, time travel, bullies, donuts, theoretical physics, roaches, skeletons, undead apes, three-headed hydras, lightsabers, cheese, cyborg dinosaurs, and a dash of zombies, this book has everything that a reader could ask for.So what are you waiting for? Read the book!

(Color Edition) In this new book of fantasy for 11-14 year olds, the ghosts of people who died when God flooded the earth in the days of Noah have returned with a horrible mission: to compel a bunch of people living today to murder every animal on the planet! In response, God enlists the help of a man named Nathaniel, who forms a team of animals to fight the vengeance-seeking ghosts. Will the Nanimals save the earth's creatures? Or will the ghosts triumph? With page after page of battles, quirky personalities, and full-color illustrations, Ghost Wars: Rise of the Nanimals takes you on a wild and fast-paced ride, leading to an unexpected and emotionally explosive ending.