Books with author J. Lynch

What could be better? The Burnham family are on a year-long holiday, travelling the world. Five-year-old Ellie is playing on a beach one day in Thailand when she wanders off alone into some trees and finds a strange and fascinating plant. As she stoops to take a closer look something very unusual indeed happens. In a puff of smoke Ellie is rendered unconscious and disappears. In that instant her life and the lives of her parents and brother are altered forever… “Animals” is an exciting adventure story; full of danger, mystery and action, peopled with characters you will care about. It is also an examination of the elements that make us human and how we deal with the fact that we are also animals.

The Cooperstown Coupes are on the go! Cooper and Pinkie Coupe search far and wide for the coupe who said, “Ooop!” Was it one of the racing Counting Coupes? Was it Sparky the Fire Coupe or Sheriff Coupe? Was it Copter the Whirly Coupe or Jax the Fix It Coupe? If they are able to find the Coupe who said Ooop! will they be able to help solve the problem? A beginning reader featuring simple rhymes, easy pace and repeat words to help build fluency. Level: Preschool - Grade 1. 40 pages.

MOUSETRAP: A LESSON LEARNED. The story of a young mouse, who after sniffing the air picks up the scent of fresh cheese. He is ready to do anything, risk everything, to get to the cheese. Luckily Mom and Pop intervene and stop him. They sit together and teach young mouse about mouse traps, when suddenly a large foot appears and is about to step on the mouse trap outside their mouse house front door. Will young mouse learn a lesson from this experience? His Mom and Pop sure hope so!

Monk the Skunk thunk up the dunk! But Monk quickly learned that when you dunk, the milk gets SHRUNK...and then there’s all that COOKIE GUNK! :-( Monk is like most kids (skunks); a picky eater when it comes to dunking cookies. Monk insists on fresh milk for EVERY dunk! But when Momma Skunk says "NO", Monk heads out to find fresh milk for the cookies! Fun and a learning adventure follow!! A great rhyming picture book for parents to read to little ones, or early readers (level 1) to enjoy on their own! Length of book: 44 pages.

Dot’s Shoes, Helping Others, Book Two of Dot’s Shoes series, finds Konrad and Axel spending the night with Oma and Opa, their grandparents. They hope Dot will leave small gifts or candy canes in her old wooden shoes under Oma’s Christmas tree, but what they really hope for is catching Dot. No one has seen her yet. It makes Dot happy to see how excited the children are when they receive surprises from her. After Opa reads the book of Dot’s Shoes, they fall asleep only to find themselves in a village similar to Dot’s village described in the book Opa just read to them. There’s a toy shoppe and the toymaker is busy making toys for children to find in their stocking on Christmas Eve. Konrad and Axel gladly help him paint toys and learn the valuable lesson of “Helping Others Is a Great Gift.” Dot’s Shoes remind us the magic of Christmas is all around. The gifts of kindness, sharing and helping others, are the greatest gifts of all and they last all year-round.

Jonathan Toomey is the best woodcarver in the valley, but he is always alone and never smiles. No one knows about the mementos of his lost wife and child that he keeps in an unopened drawer. But one early winter s day, a widow and her young son approach him with a gentle request that leads to a joyful miracle. The moving, lyrical tale, gloriously illustrated by P.J. Lynch, has been widely hailed as a true Christmas classic.

Living on the razors edge, Giselle Bergman's life is torn apart by her cheating boyfriend. Little does she realise that he is the least of her worries when her long term friend Alex introduces her to his family and a new, darker world. A world of lies, deceit and corruption. Thrown from one problem straight into another, the razors edge gets thinner and sharper, testing Giselle's sanity and vitality. Not even she can hide when living within the shadows.