Books with author Jim O'Connor

WARNING: You Won't Be Able to Read This Book Entirely! One chapter of this book is missing! You'll need to be clever enough to decode each chapter title to unlock the missing chapter. Some of these chapter titles are VERY DIFFICULT to crack. Drex Harding was the quiet kid in school that most people ignored, but something was about to change. When his locker neighbor, Trish Solden is found distraught because her phone was missing and may have been stolen Drex knows he needs to help.Drex quickly finds himself caught in the middle of a school crime ring and is now on the hunt for answers and justice. Drex will need to use all his wits, his unique perspectives on the world around him, as well as some ingenuity to outsmart the middle school mafia and it's leader

Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience."--"Bulletin, Center for Children's Books."

In a universe beyond the borders of human understanding, lies the Monastery at the Side of The World. Two castles mysteriously floating in the air. One pure white the other jet black, where Ninjas of the left and right hand paths train to maintain the balance between good and evil. Where the Iron Crown lies broken and bleeding and should the last sliver crack! The world will be pitched into an eternal darkness where black magic rules. The Firehead of Legend the only one who can save the crown by retrieving the seven jewels and placing them in their sockets ... but time grows perilously short.Meantime completely unaware, Tessa Fox is your everyday Ginger, bullied and trolled for no other reason than she has blood red hair that flows from her head like liquid fire. Is she the one, who can solve the mystery of the Seven Doors of Doom, and restore the Iron Crown? She can hardly organize herself out of a brown paper bag, and yet is expected to wield powers she doesn’t know she has.The Blood Red Ruby … where our heroine is plunged into a world of mystery and magic, where she must battle dark forces that seek to prevent her from achieving her destiny. But now she has friends. Sambrowne the undecided who makes her heart flutter. Rangbold who stands no higher than her knee. And Charlotte the white witch … all of whom possess magical powers, and will fight to protect her.Relentlessly pursued by the forces of darkness. Tessa learns to control her power, though most of the time she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Winging it in magic, incredibly dangerous, as she fights for the whites at the Quartermeet games, achieves the undying enmity of the evil Tu Tsarn, and time travels her way to meet the beautiful Lady Cassandra and her witches coven.For those who love the mystery in magic, the ups and downs of Tessa’s wild journey, will leave you breathless with wonder, as she twists and turns to the beat of enchantment and sorcery. Tessa Fox and the Ice Cold Pearl. The next in a planned series, written specifically for young adults of all ages.