Books with author J.C. Spencer

The Adventure of Iggy Squiggles: Iggy is Isabelle Squiggles, a little girl who is five years old and has a big imagination. She fills her days with pirates, cops and robbers, imaginary places and people, ocean epics, frontier excursions, to living in palaces and traveling to space with always a tale to tell. Basically, Iggy strives for as much playtime as she can get and always on the hunt for more adventures. Living with her Gramma and Grandpa Squiggles on their apple orchard farm gives Iggy many life adventures to daydream about, and to experience as well. Surrounded by both animal friends and human friends to keep her company, Iggy, is one little girl who always manages to find herself in some kind of trouble. Iggy's friend Gus, is an old Angus bull living on Grandpa and Gramma Squiggles' farm. Iggy Squiggles runs down to where Gus grazes every morning and brings him a carrot, his favorite treat. They've become great friends. However, one day Gus is missing from his usual field, and in his place is a new, nasty Angus bull, called Bullseye! He's earned his name for a reason. Surprisingly, no one told Iggy about his arrival, nor did they mention that he was not as friendly a bull as Gus. So what happened to her friend? What will Bullseye think of Iggy? Find out what happens when the two meet up after a rain storm, and neither one is interested in close encounters of the unfriendly kind!

Thirteen-year-old Fredrik has just made a choice that will change his life and the lives of everyone he knows. Rather than fight, possibly to the death, he chooses The Second Rite. He must leave the compound where he has lived all his life, enter the ruins of a dead city and bring back an artifact. If he returns without it, he will be killed by the other boys. Fredrik knows if he is caught leaving the compound, he will be severely punished. But a dream gives him courage - that he might find a whole book, a forbidden possession, to bring back for his mother. Fredrik does indeed find a book, the Holy Book of God, but he has been taught that God is the source of all their misery. Dare he believe what this ancient book tells him? Is keeping it safe worth losing everything? Dare he believe that the land beyond the dark wall is the true reality? Can he really complete the task for which he has been chosen?