Books with author D. M. Wilson

Percy Fitz gazed at the mountains that loomed before him as he stood on the deck of his family's cabin. He longed to explore them, but his mother wouldn't allow it. She wouldn't allow him to do hardly anything. Whatever he did do, he got in trouble for. Those mountains attracted him as nothing else in his life had. He didn't fit in his family, but he felt he could fit somewhere in those mountains. Someday when he was older he was determined to explore them. He knew they held adventure and excitement. What he could never have imagined is that within days he would be not only in them, but under them, and off on an unimaginable adventure. It would be an adventure that included talking mountain lions, a hidden kingdom, a king that proclaimed Percy the answer to a riddle, a magical sword, a beautiful princess, killer beetles the size of cows, and a variety of menacing creatures only mentioned in ancient books. Was he up to this much adventure? Was this the place where he could truly fit in?

What do Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, and Madonna, Queen of Pop have in common? Both are no strangers to opulence and public scrutiny, but how do their lives truly compare? Both were influenced by headstrong mothers and deep religious upbringings. Each was inspired and molded by the cultural and artistic norms of their times and struggled to break the barriers imposed on them by men. This mashup examines the turning points for both of these powerful and iconic queens, the people that influenced them, and the major events that revealed their true character.This book is part of MG Wilson's History Mashups for Teens series. The premise of the marvelous mashup is simple. Remix elemental bits and pieces of history with modern pop culture. In each book, Wilson takes two famous figures separated by time and circumstance, mixes up their stories, and explores the unlikely similarities that present themselves as their lives unfold. The series makes history fun and accessible for teenagers.If you like this cultural remix, check out all the other History Mashups for Teens!

Teale Tales is set in the land of Wyveryn. The story evolves round Gallen and Ceilidh Teale and their friend Toby, who are orphans in present day. Gallen and Ceilidh have a past nestled in the realm of Wyv, Wyv is a kingdom hidden from the outside world in early times by a wizard determined to save a realm from civil war. The children stay in the remote Scottish village of Drumclog with their evil uncle McPritchard during the holidays. During term time they attend Mearns Orphanage council run school.Asphalt the royal advisor comes to modern day Mearns through a portal from Wyv to take the children back to the royal city of Wyv to fulfill their destiny. The journey is disrupted by a brooding dark threat within the realm and the enemy within.The book explores the land and many colourful characters are met, from the three knight brothers; Slainthe, Clavical and Thorne, to the most heroic accident-prone pirate of the eight seas; Captain Ned T Nitrate. There is corruption in the realm and the children are enrolled in Orleon Spire, the learning establishment of Wyv's capital city Wyveryn. There are many surprises along the way and excitement as the two sides of the empire clash to make there own lead the country.The book culminates in the final battle between Gallen and Svengaard the Dragon on the side of Glistene the Ice queen and her army of molten men, and Tawny, Gallens classmate and pawn of the dark side, on the side of the corrupted empire.

Originally published in 1904, this is a facsimile, or exact, reprint of the original book. It contains a biography of noted novelist Mary Hartwell Catherwood of Ohio and Illinois. (1904) 2017, 89pp. (96 total pages) Each page has been carefully processed by trained human artisans to achieve the best possible quality from the original used. We do not use once size fits all automated computer image enhancement of compressed online pdf files that can leave some pages distorted or unreadable.

Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room–with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards, but portals to other worlds.100 Cupboards is the first book of a new fantasy adventure, written in the best world-hopping tradition and reinvented in N. D. Wilson’s inimitable style.From the Hardcover edition.

Escaping the Measureless Cavern should have left Percy and Princess Portia free from Aztecs forever! But then the mountain loin, Puma, arrives in Aurora with worrying news. Rufus McGee, Percy's best friend in Pan Woods, is missing! Only Chitty Mantooth knows where he is, and he isn't telling. Percy and Portia finally convince him to tell and then find themselves in more trouble than ever before. They discover that there is truth to the legend of a hidden treasure in the mountains near Pan Woods, only the treasure isn't in the mountains! They find that there is another entrance to the Measureless Cavern, and the Aztecs have found their way out -- not only found their way out, but are determined to reestablish their Aztec Empire in the Outworld! What is even more chilling is the fact that the Aztec Army has an advanced weapon that not even the U.S. Army can match.

N. D. Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns with an action-packed adventure that will captivate fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones with lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure. For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room. Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia.

Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he's swept downstream and underground aboard a crumbling raft of Styrofoam. Washing up on a dark subterranean "beach," his only companions are an impulsive dog named Argus and a corpse, from which he takes a flashlight and an all-too-limited supply of batteries. What Tom finds under Leepike Ridge—a castaway, four graves, a tomb, and buried treasure—will answer questions he hadn't known to ask and change his life forever. Now, if he can only find his way home again. . . .An original mix of Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon's Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Odyssey, N. D. Wilson's first book for young readers is a remarkable adventure, a journey though the dark of the grave and back out into the light.