Books with author James Spears

Let the fur fly with tons of photos and facts about our animal friends. Did you know that a cat's top speed is about 31 miles per hour, that a dog can make about 100 different facial expressions, or that many birds' feathers weigh more than their bones? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about our beloved pets--whether scaly, slithery, four-legged, or feathered--in National Geographic Kids Everything Pets. Filled with fabulous and funny photos and peppered with fun facts, this is a must-have for all young animal lovers, sure to satisfy kids' curiosity about every kind of pet.

Let the fur fly with tons of photos and facts about our animal friends. Did you know that a cat's top speed is about 31 miles per hour, that a dog can make about 100 different facial expressions, or that many birds' feathers weigh more than their bones? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about our beloved pets--whether scaly, slithery, four-legged, or feathered--in National Geographic Kids Everything Pets. Filled with fabulous and funny photos and peppered with fun facts, this is a must-have for all young animal lovers, sure to satisfy kids' curiosity about every kind of pet.

It has been a traumatic eleven months for sixteen-year-old Cam Jeffries. Ever since his mother, Naomi, vanished without a trace nearly a year ago, he and his father have been trying to reassemble the pieces of their shattered lives. But just as they achieve as close to a normal existence as humanly possible, Cam’s chance encounter with a sadistic, vile murderer—known as the Bull’s-Eye Killer—throws their already fragile household on its ear.Narrowly escaping with his life, and unable to quell the nagging questions that plague him as a result of the killer’s inconceivable escape, Cam conducts his own investigation. With a keen eye, he unveils a secret world hidden in plain sight of the one in which he lives—a world that exists in parallel with his own. With its discovery, he learns there’s more to the Bull’s-Eye Killer than meets the eye. Much more. But most important of all, Cam stumbles upon the sobering truth that his mother may, in fact, still be alive. Just in the last place he could have possibly imagined.

Narrowly escaping from the Darklands, Cam and Trin have found their way home. But they have not returned empty-handed. In their possession is a patchwork of crude drawings left to them by the mysterious boy, the assembled images detailing a route to the evasive, and long sought after, Centrinis.Now they must go back into the Darklands to find it.Teamed with four of the Authority’s premiere Sidelanders, Cam and Trin prepare to revisit the Darklands, a place from which they barely survived the first time. Facing a seemingly never-ending string of perilous worlds amid the constant threat of death, the team must reach Centrinis before Vane launches his interdimensional invasion. Anything less will mean the certain destruction of their home—and their world.

At long last, Patira has rejoined Centrinis. Having survived the horrors of the Darklands, Cam, Trin, and Winter have returned home as heroes, but their success marks only the beginning of what lay ahead. The threat of Barathrum looms like an approaching storm, Vane's promise to launch an interdimensional invasion a near certainty. If allowed to happen, countless lives will be lost, and entire worlds will fall.Vane must be stopped.Assembling a hand-selected team from the Unified Worlds' military elite, the Consortium has sanctioned a final all-or-nothing mission to do the impossible—infiltrate Barathrum's nightmarish capital of Skanek and overthrow Vane. There's just one catch—Cam must go with them. In possession of crucial knowledge that can help the team escape, Cam embarks on the most dangerous undertaking of his life. More terrifying than the prospect of where he is going, however, is the even more unsettling notion that, should he fail, he may never see his mother or father again.

Narrowly escaping from the Darklands, Cam and Trin have found their way home. But they have not returned empty-handed. In their possession is a patchwork of crude drawings left to them by the mysterious boy, the assembled images detailing a route to the evasive, and long sought after, Centrinis. Now they must go back into the Darklands to find it. Teamed with four of the Authority’s premiere Sidelanders, Cam and Trin prepare to revisit the Darklands, a place from which they barely survived the first time. Facing a seemingly never-ending string of perilous worlds amid the constant threat of death, the team must reach Centrinis before Vane launches his interdimensional invasion. Anything less will mean the certain destruction of their home—and their world.

It has been a traumatic eleven months for sixteen-year-old Cam Jeffries. Ever since his mother, Naomi, vanished without a trace nearly a year ago, he and his father have been trying to reassemble the pieces of their shattered lives. But just as they achieve as close to a normal existence as humanly possible, Cam’s chance encounter with a sadistic, vile murderer—known as the Bull’s-Eye Killer—throws their already fragile household on its ear. Narrowly escaping with his life, and unable to quell the nagging questions that plague him as a result of the killer’s inconceivable escape, Cam conducts his own investigation. With a keen eye, he unveils a secret world hidden in plain sight of the one in which he lives—a world that exists in parallel with his own. With its discovery, he learns there’s more to the Bull’s-Eye Killer than meets the eye. Much more. But most important of all, Cam stumbles upon the sobering truth that his mother may, in fact, still be alive. Just in the last place he could have possibly imagined.

At long last, Patira has rejoined Centrinis. Having survived the horrors of the Darklands, Cam, Trin, and Winter have returned home as heroes, but their success marks only the beginning of what lay ahead. The threat of Barathrum looms like an approaching storm, Vane's promise to launch an interdimensional invasion a near certainty. If allowed to happen, countless lives will be lost, and entire worlds will fall. Vane must be stopped. Assembling a hand-selected team from the Unified Worlds' military elite, the Consortium has sanctioned a final all-or-nothing mission to do the impossible—infiltrate Barathrum's nightmarish capital of Skanek and overthrow Vane. There's just one catch—Cam must go with them. In possession of crucial knowledge that can help the team escape, Cam embarks on the most dangerous undertaking of his life. More terrifying than the prospect of where he is going, however, is the even more unsettling notion that, should he fail, he may never see his mother or father again.