Books with author Danielle Wood

"You're living through the very thing you thought for sure would destroy you right now, and you're not destroyed are you? Maybe you feel like the living dead; maybe each heartbeat brings on a new wave of pain..."At thirteen I stumbled into an online relationship with a bereft boy struggling to overcome the loss of his mother. At fourteen I discovered he never existed. Days later I began this book, chronicling my recovery with the intent to share it with others. Discover God's grace and healing through the world of a girl struggling to reconcile grief and faith. "But you're still alive and there's still time for change."

I live in perfection. But even in perfection, humans cannot be content. The whole idea is archaic anyway. Entropy cannot be thwarted, only slowed. The risk of death in my world falls beyond a number so infinitesimal that most of you would consider it impossible. Yet, I have faced death, and losing someone has transformed my perfect world into a foreign planet. Humans have involved into a completely new species in bodies that have become as much machine as flesh. Death--how absurd. Even now, we can still die. To find myself, I had to devolve, and when I set out on my journey to discover the past, I found you. A planet on the outskirts. A planet still ruled by the absurdity of death. A planet who believed she was alone. Read of my journey and join me in breaking the circles of the universe.(This is episode 1 of a serialized novel.)

Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.

No Clothes is the story of Simon's cross-town journey without clothes. Daniel Wood has captured that nine year old dread, nakedness. Simon's carelessness caused his predicament, but we must admire his speed and courage in evading a gang of kids and his resourcefulness in creating newspaper clothes ("local coverage"). The tension is heightened as each adventure results in another call to the police. There is a nice feeling of apocalyptic vision...the conversation is good, the pace is quick, the conclusion satisfying. -- Canadian Materials

Lilly is a first grader whose imagination leads her to ask a lot of questions. In "Oogums Boogums Woogums," we get to see our world in a way that only Lilly has ever seen it before! One night, Lilly looks through her telescope into the starry sky and wonders if there's anyone else living on the other planets way out there. That night, Lilly's question is answered when Oogums Boogums Woogums from the planet Jupiter lands in Lilly's bedroom! This furry little friend introduces Lilly to all sorts of creatures she never knew were real...and without her help, wouldn't exist much longer. Through the power of belief, friendship, and with the fun that only children know how to have, "Oogums Boogums Woogums" is out of this world!