Books with author Jann W. Martin

It doesn't matter if you are young or old, life at times can be more than you bargain for. Take a young boy named Sam George for instance. What starts out as a simple hunting trip with his father ends with a mystery that leaves many questions unanswered. He finds a mysterious door, enters through it and is never heard from again. He leaves behind his family who are brokenhearted over the loss of their loved one. Through time, only memories remain. Those memories become the foundation and history behind a town called DragonFly Valley. DragonFly Valley is a story of four friends, a small town, in a time long past. Keneshia Humphries, Timo Delgado, Silvia Foo and Gary George encounter adventures that will forever change their lives. A secret passed down for generations becomes known and this leads to extraordinary discoveries about themselves and life in general. An old book that is opened points the way to an incredible find. In their possession they have a bizarre key that unlocks a strange door. Where this door leads could cost the life of one of their friends. It also creates more questions than they have answers to. However, one gigantic mystery is solved. But will anyone believe them if they explain what happened?

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 4 series offers delicious leveled readers for children aged 7 to 9. The diverse original stories have a word count of approximately 2,000 words and Lexile measures between 400L to 700L. The stories in this series vary with narrative in first or third person, and they have increased character dialogue, which allows students to develop character studies. Eric is puzzled by the stories he hears from the new boy in class, Max, who says he lives on a bus and has the most unusual pets. Eric wants to be friends with Max, but soon, the whole class thinks Max is strange and there is nothing Eric can do to stop the teasing and bullying, or is there?

Strange People...Weird Creatures...Hair Raising Journey... Gary lay in bed slowly dying. He needed medicine fast. The only problem was that the ingredients needed to make the cure were found on the other side. His friends had no choice; they must go through the mysterious door back to where it all began. But they needed the courage to do it. In order to help their friend, they first had to survive themselves. Quest for the Cure is a fast moving story about how true friends bond and support each other through adversity. It is a story about encouragement, cooperation, and having the tenacity to see things through. These are all vital to the success of anything worth achieving.