Books with author John O'Brien

Josh Bloom is on a field trip with his class to Cherry Tree Manor; while the house and gardens are beautiful, what really interests the class is the fact that Manor's owner, General Edgar Pennington, disappeared mysteriously exactly twelve years to the day before their visit to the Manor …To Josh, it seems like there's something spooky about the manor. None of the other kids feel it, but Josh seems more attuned to the house, which leads him to discover something in the General's library that sends him on an adventure of a lifetime.Josh thinks he is on a journey to find the missing General, but soon discovers that it's his own destiny that he is really searching for … there are links between him and the missing General that he never could have guessed … Josh quest takes him to the enchanting land of Habilon, full of danger, excitement and magic.Will he ever return from the land beyond the Cherry Tree?

London. 1588. England is in danger. In his second perilous mission, Jack Christie travels back to an Elizabethan England riddled with treacherous plots. Following encounters with Mary Queens of Scots, Williams Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, Jack must save Queen Elizabeth 1st from assassination and help defeat the Spanish Armada. At the same time, Jack must solve the riddle at the heart of his own family. Day of Deliverance is the second of the Jack Christie Adventures and continues Jack's thrilling ride through history.

Scooter, the dog sees the front door is open and decides to go on an adventure. Heading up the street, he checks out a park and an ice cream truck. As the sun goes down, he looks around and realizes that he doesn’t know where he lives. He tries to remember his address, but can’t. So, he takes to the street to try and find his way home. Along the way he meets an interesting group of friends who teach him a few things along the way.

Have you ever wondered how your favorite sport began? Basketball got its start when a physical education instructor invented a new game for bored students. The original soccer ball might have been a skull! The history of other sports is just as surprising--bowling was part of an early religious ritual; lacrosse games used to stretch for miles and last for days; and the king of France once outlawed tennis because it was a gambling game!Alice Low's witty poems, vividly ilustrated by John O'Brien's uproarious cartoons, hit a true home run for readers.

Bill and Christie Sullivan are a typical Las Vegas Valley family: liberal, innovative and hard-working. They’ve gone to great secondary schools and put their careers first. They’ve missed their own window for having children and have chosen to bring two orphans into their home. Bill Sullivan owns and operates a security software company and he designed his home to be futuristic and secure. There is a control room in the home, cameras in every room and creature comforts that exist on the cutting edge of technology. The orphan children still manage to thwart the home’s security measures to terrorize the Sullivan family and their servants. And, how do the marks on their necks mutate into palm print they align with their dead sister's to form the mark of the beast, 666?