Books with author D R Swan

Eleven-year-old Alice didn’t know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn’t that true of most heroes?Like Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon an odd diary in an old dusty attic, but this wasn’t like any other book that she had ever read and it sends her into a world where everything isn’t the way it should be.As she reads the pages of the diary, it begins to interact with her in ways that, at first, are subtle but doesn’t remain so. Soon, she seems to be living the things happening between those strange pages. The diary is about a young girl, Alice’s age and Alice soon finds that she and the girl in the book seem to be on the same strange path…

"Summertime, finally," Tony Mendoza, Bobby Baker, and David Van Pelt said as they left their classroom on the last day of school. Now they could have fun and play their current favorite game, Pokemon Go all day. They all lived on the same street and had been friends for years. Every summer since they could remember, their families had camped together for a couple weeks of vacation. This year was no exception. The three families were going to camp at Donner Lake close to where the Donner Party had become stranded in 1846 and been forced to eat some of their group to survive. Tony was sure that the lake was haunted because of the misfortunes of the Donner Group. Bobby wasn't so sure, but he hoped to play Pokemon Go at the lake and he brought his cell phone hoping that he would have service and be able to play the game. Arriving, though, Bobby finds that his phone doesn't have service and he can't play. He and his friends decide to go on a hike away from the lake. Up in the trails, they find an abandoned structure built into the side of a hill. Inside, the structure has a control panel and the technology appears to be advanced, but its caked with dust and appears to have been there for a very long time. They touch the panel and it lights up. Fearful that they have trespassed into someone's property, they leave only to find that Bobby's cellphone now works. Once back from the hike, they decide to play the game, but they find that there is something very wrong with the way the game is playing and it leads them into an unexpected adventure.

"Summertime, finally," Tony Mendoza, Bobby Baker, and David Van Pelt said as they left their classroom on the last day of school. Now they could have fun and play their current favorite game, Pokémon Go, all day. They all lived on the same street and had been friends for years. Every summer since they could remember, their families had camped together for a couple weeks of vacation. This year was no exception. The three families were going to camp at Donner Lake close to where the Donner Party had become stranded in 1846 and been forced to eat some of their group to survive. Tony was sure that the lake was haunted because of the misfortunes of the Donner Group. Bobby wasn't so sure, but he hoped to play Pokémon Go at the lake, so he brought his cell phone hoping that he would have service enough to play the game. Arriving, though, Bobby finds that his phone doesn't have service and he can't play. He and his friends decide to go on a hike away from the lake. Up in the trails, they find an abandoned structure built into the side of a hill. Inside, the structure has a control panel and the technology appears to be advanced, but its caked with dust and appears to have been there for a very long time. They touch the panel and it lights up. Fearful that they have trespassed into someone's property, they leave only to find that Bobby's cell phone now works. Once back from the hike, they decide to play the game, but they find that there is something very wrong with the way the game is playing and it leads them into an unexpected adventure.

Eleven-year-old Alice didn’t know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn’t that true of most heroes.Like Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz,” Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon an odd diary in an old dusty attic, but this wasn’t like any other book that she had ever read and it sends her into a world where everything isn’t the way it should be.As she reads the pages of the diary, it begins to interact with her in ways that, at first, are subtle but doesn’t remain so. Soon, she seems to be living the things happening between those strange pages. The diary is about a young girl, Alice’s age and Alice soon finds that she and the girl in the book seem to be on the same strange path…