Books with author Eric Brown

Seventeen-year-olds Willa Thompson and Dan Martin are falling in love. But there’s one major problem: Willa lives in New York. Dan doesn’t. Teens with divorced parents, Dan, a comic book nerd from Texas, and Willa, a sassy urbanite, have spent the last three years coordinating their monthly trips to visit the parent they don’t live with, so that they can meet up during their layovers. As their junior year wraps up, Willa and Dan realize that their feelings for each other are more than friendly. When they begin a long-distance relationship, Dan and Willa find out that there is more working against them than geography—they aren’t applying to any of the same colleges, Dan’s ruthless ex sees Willa as nothing more than a challenge to overcome, and Willa’s more-experienced-in-love best friend doesn’t trust Dan as far as she can throw him. Which is not at all. Spanning a year and told from Willa and Dan’s alternating perspectives, Taking Flight captures the many stresses of being a high school senior, and how very difficult—but also how very easy—love can be.

“Hi, I’m Trish. This is my diary. It was the most important week of my life. I didn’t like myself before that week. I was a bitch, a real bitch. Then I met someone, and things began to get a lot better. And then things got a lot worse...” Crazy Love is the hard-hitting story of Trish Green – and how she grew up in the course of one week.Written, edited and designed for teen readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible. Particularly suitable for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers with a reading age of 7 and over.

An ordinary camping trip goes horribly wrong. Al and Jenny find themselves in the year 2055… and the future is grim. The countryside is full of troops and army tanks. But worse than that, there are no black people, no Asian people… Only white people are left. Something dreadful has happened. Al and Jenny are stuck in a nightmare. Will they ever get out? Race Against Time is a story about racism and intolerance in a future that might just come to pass…Written, edited and designed for teen readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible. Particularly suitable for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers with a reading age of 7 and over.

Dan’s got everything – and everything to lose.Dan Radford has it all. He’s a professional footballer with a big house, fast cars, cash – and a drink problem.But when the star striker finds a burglar in his house, he’s dragged into a nightmare of violence, kidnap, and blackmail. Dan has an enemy – and he’s out for revenge.Revenge charts the dark side of the glamorous world of a professional footballer…Written, edited and designed for teen readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible. Particularly suitable for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers with a reading age of 7 and over.

A spring break ski trip turns into the reunion Willa and Dan never saw coming. After months of not talking, Willa and Dan run into each other at the last place they thought they would—a ski lodge in Colorado. Neither of them expected to see the other during spring break, and certainly never expected to meet their ex’s new college friends. Dan sees this as his last opportunity to win Willa back and wants to make the most of the week together. He knows that they can make long distance work, and when he hears that they may both be in New York for the summer, he’s more determined than ever to convince the girl of his dreams that they should try to have a relationship again. Third time’s the charm, right? But Willa isn’t sure if that’s for the best—they broke up for a reason, after all, and if they did get back together, the deck is stacked against them. They’re still going to different colleges, they’re still long distance, and they still have no idea how to make that work. But then again, when Willa is honest with herself, she knows that she wants to spend time with Dan. That she wants to see where the week in Colorado may take them. That she wants them to end up together. She just isn’t sure how—or even if—that’s supposed to happen. In this Taking Flight novella, set against the snowy, stunning backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, Willa and Dan have to face the truth about their relationship and decide if they want to run back up that slippery slope together, or go their separate ways.

Mouse and Millie are back! This time, their homework is to write a story about knights. Luckily they have Umba-Wumba’s space-time ship and can go back in time to see for themselves. They meet a real knight, but he has a problem. He has to kill a monster that’s loose in the village. Can Mouse and Millie help? A Monster Ate My Marmite is another fun adventure in time with Mouse and Millie and their alien friend. Written, edited and designed for young readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible. Particularly suitable for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers.

“One match,” he said. “One match is all it’d take.” Danny has moved to a new town and things are not going well. No-one has taken an interest in him – he’s bored and lonely and bullied by the cruel and violent Ross Davis. But then Danny discovers something new, something that makes him feel powerful. But will Danny know where to stop? Fire Bug is the story of what goes wrong when Danny tries to make his life go right…Written, edited and designed for teen readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible. Particularly suitable for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers with a reading age of 7 and over.