Books with author Danny Moore

The true story of Lieutenant Steve Joyner, who carried all the traits of a "perfect Marine" - character, compassion, determination, patriotism . . . an All-American football star. But then came the harsh and unforgiving realities of combat in Vietnam. How the two worlds he inhabited both connected and conflicted reveals the character of an extraordinary man gone far too soon. "Promise Lost is a touching, crisply rendered account of a Marine lieutenant who fell heroically in the final, bloody days of the 1968 battle for Khe Sanh while leading a counterattack into the teeth of an overwhelming enemy assault force," writes Vietnam veteran and author Michael Archer. "Yet, the real story here is of Steve Joyner's life, his personal character, and enormous potential. Dan Moore reliably and deftly weaves this poignant tale of friendship, honor and fate; culminating in the agonizing reality that war does not end on the battlefield; but rather back home, often decades later, within a fallen warrior's circle of family and friends."

Jackie's old life ends and her new adventure begins when an ill conceived wish to be as tiny as an ant sends her spiraling through the stars and into an amazing world she never expects.She spends the next week riding dragonflies, sailing homemade boats past hungry goldfish and giant frogs, fighting battles to save underground ant cities, climbing trees on huge wooly caterpillars and searching for deadly Black Widow spiders, all in her quest to fix her mistakes and find her way back home.When Stinger, a deadly wasp, and his swarm of bullies show up and cause trouble for everyone, Jackie must team up with her new friends, Drago the dragonfly, Anton the ant and her reluctant hero, The Mantis, to stop them from taking over the park. If she fails, she'll never make it home again.

“Billy was a foil balloon that was born in a grocery store. He was a shiny silver balloon with a special message that said I Love You in bright red letters.” Billy the Balloon is a story that will assure, inspire, and give the reader hope that everything will be OK because everything happens for a purpose. It is story about how a farmer named Fred, his special needs grandson, JP, and Sally, a young city girl, are wondrously brought together for a benefit party by a balloon called Billy.

“Billy was a foil balloon that was born in a grocery store. He was a shiny silver balloon with a special message that said I Love You in bright red letters.” Billy the Balloon is a story that will assure, inspire, and give the reader hope that everything will be OK because everything happens for a purpose. It is story about how a farmer named Fred, his special needs grandson, JP, and Sally, a young city girl, are wondrously brought together for a benefit party by a balloon called Billy.

Have A Pie Have A Party is an illustrated poem about the thoughts of a young, special needs boy as he watches his mother and grandmother make fruit and cream pies at the family bakery. His desire to eat a piece of pie grows as he recounts the process from start to finish. Will he get to eat a piece of pie? Which is his favorite? Will there be a party at the end? Author, Daniel Moore, and illustrator, Rob Smith, team up to provide words and scenery so that others may appreciate what this little boy experiences.

Have A Pie Have A Party is an illustrated poem about the thoughts of a young, special needs boy as he watches his mother and grandmother make fruit and cream pies at the family bakery. His desire to eat a piece of pie grows as he recounts the process from start to finish. Will he get to eat a piece of pie? Which is his favorite? Will there be a party at the end? Author, Daniel Moore, and illustrator, Rob Smith, team up to provide words and scenery so that others may appreciate what this little boy experiences.

“Billy was a foil balloon that was born in a grocery store. He was a shiny silver balloon with a special message that said I Love You in bright red letters.” Billy the Balloon is a story that will assure, inspire, and give the reader hope that everything will be OK because everything happens for a purpose. It is story about how a farmer named Fred, his special needs grandson, JP, and Sally, a young city girl, are wondrously brought together for a benefit party by a balloon called Billy.

Dan Moore’s new book, The Summer of Billy Stevens, follows Billy, on the cusp of graduating from high school, who feels he is going insane – losing all sense of reality and well being. When the monotony of the suburbs becomes too much for him, he leaves everything he’s ever known and moves to San Francisco, where he realizes nothing is as it seems. After a summer of drugs, love and death, his life and the lives of those close to him will never be the same… In the words of unforgettable character Donny: "Around six years ago I awoke in the middle of the night. There was nowhere to go but back to sleep, and I couldn’t find my way there. So, I walked outside into the street to catch some air, and got lost somewhere between the Bay and my doorstep. That’s how I became lost, and I’ve been so ever since." Dan’s journey as a novelist began only recently, with Through The Wall of Rain and Fog -- his edgy, intimate exploration of high school friends coming of age. Through The Wall quickly established Moore as a gifted young writer, as The Summer of Billy Stevens further demonstrates. The characters of Billy Stevens are all new, and what happens in its San Francisco setting jars Moore’s fans out of the suburban complacency he so deliciously served up in his first novel. Yet, the theme of growing up that began in Through The Wall builds in Billy Stevens into one of growing up and out -- into a bigger, more exciting, and more terrifying world than the suburban ennui Billy flees.