Books with author Don MacMillan

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 3 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 7 to 9. It offers a long list of new, original stories with approximately 1,000 words. In this series, students are presented with a variety of genres including realistic fiction, whacky fantasy, and action adventure. Tony is fascinated with becoming a pirate. However, he may change his mind after hearing Uncle Bobby’s stories of being a pirate. Uncle Bobby recounts his adventures with dangerous pirates, terrible food, and terrifying sharks, as Tony listens attentively. Will Tony change his mind?

Set in the equestrian world, The Blackwood Mare is a novel packed full of high adventure and romance. Robin Haliday is a budding young show jumper in Sussex, England. Her life changes dramatically when she is forced, through family circumstances to leave her home at the Arundel riding school and re-locate to New Zealand. Torn apart from the love of her life, Henry Southey who stays behind to study veterinary medicine, she finds herself in isolation and throws herself into her work training horses. Experiencing the New Zealand way of life she not only falls in love with the country but the people too. Through events of sadness, grief, tragedy and deception Robin’s life ultimately completes a full circle.Also by this author: Horsepower - "A gripping equestrian romance".

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 4 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 7 to 9. The diverse, original stories have a word count of approximately 2,000 words. The stories in this series vary with narrative in first person or third person, and they have increased character dialogue, which allows students to develop character studies. They focus on realistic fiction and have settings that students can relate to, but each story has a unique twist that will keep students thinking. Bruno is allergic to fake latex erasers, so he can never make a mistake in school. One day, he receives a package from his uncle in Brazil containing an eraser made from real latex extracted from “magic” rubber trees in the Amazon. Bruno is thrilled with his gift but soon realizes the power of the magic eraser and must decide whether to keep it or not.