Books with author David Boyd

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send Dennis to Mongolia in the year 1226. There Dennis meets with Genghis Khan, ruler of the vast Mongol Empire. The Great Khan is about to ban the use of paper money throughout his empire. But if he does, then all the money in the world will disappear! Not just paper money, but coins too! Automated Teller Machines (ATM's) will dispense ice cream bars and cranberry juice. Bank tellers will hand customers bags of bird seed and cherry pies instead of cash. And people will pay cab fares with bottles of shampoo! Will Dennis succeed in fixing this pothole in the road of time? Only time will tell.

Paul is 15 and a survivor. His psychiatrist believes he can help Paul deal with the terrible images he has locked inside his mind in the aftermath of his best friend’s shooting rampage in his high school. Writing in his journal, Paul’s struggle to make sense of what happened reveals the depth of feeling in adolescent friendships, the far-reaching effects of angst and anger, and the havoc caused by a friend’s betrayal.

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send Yvonne, one of Donny Beck's friends, back to the 1890s for an encounter with Annie Oakley, the famous sharpshooter. Yvonne must intervene in one of Annie's performances in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. If she fails, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany will be the victim of an evil assassination plot hatched by circus clowns. And if that happens, clowns will take over Germany and eventually conquer the world! Milo (the masterful black-and-white sheltie) and Winston (the inventive pug) have their paws crossed!

Max Bonney is in the middle of a nightmare. Not only does he feel responsible for the breakup of his father's second marriage, he is also being shipped off to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, to spend the summer with grandparents whom he doesn't even know. Once in St. Stephen, things go from bad to weird as Max starts to have disturbing dreams about Samuel de Champlain, the great explorer who once stayed on nearby Dochet's Island. The only thing that seems to be going right for Max is that he makes friends with Tran, and then Tran introduces him to Caetlin, who happens to have the most beautiful blue eyes he has ever seen...

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send Donnie Becks back in time for his second adventure. Boomeranged into France in the year 1193, Donnie joins forces with Blondel, troubadour and friend of the mighty English King Richard the Lionheart. A pothole in time has resulted in a mad outbreak of modern day Robin Hoods and Merrie Men, all in Lincolnshire green dress, parading through the streets of major cities like New York, Toronto, and Paris. Donnie must rescue the Lionheart, a task which will ultimately bring him face-to-face with his own destiny and the choice of a lifetime!

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send Shakira Persad to Constantinople in the year 1560, where Suleyman the Magnificent heads the mighty Ottoman Empire. With the help of Winston the Pug’s Auto-Instant-Language Machine, she must help the Bahshi, chief librarian, find a missing document: the Muhibbi’s Gazel. Failure to do so will result in modern day madness as every librarian in the world morphs into a real bookworm! Fortunately, Shakira has the answer…or does she?