Books with author John Wallace

Search For The Mountain Gorillas by Jim Wallace takes YOU on a research adventure through the jungles of Uganda, Africa. 9-12 year old readers will face the real-life threats to the diminishing gorilla populations; confront poachers, wild buffaloes, and snakes! Choose Your Own Adventure Search For The Mountain Gorillas is an interactive adventure book in which YOU decide what happens next. The Ugandan jungle is a dangerous place. One wrong step and it might be your last. A girl from the local village goes missing and the world's eyes are on you when the BBC shows up with a film crew to document your work. Will you find the missing girl? Can you save the mountain gorillas? Or will YOU be the one that ultimately needs saving? For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Adventure series including: The Abominable Snowman R. A. Montgomery, Journey Under the Sea by R. A. Montgomery, and Space and Beyond by R. A. Montgomery.

With beautiful colour illustrations throughout, this is a fun, friendly, poetry collection to take a child through the day, from teeth-brushing to tumbling into bed. Featuring poems by Roger McGough, Max Fatchen, Grace Nichols and Eleanor Farjeon, it is perfect for reading aloud and is an ideal way to introduce young children to the world of poetry.

Mary's new job with Wizard Williwim is perfect. Through gainful employment and access to the classified central library, she hopes to discover a route to the respect and approval she yearns for. For years she’s attempted one plan after another, and this one appears to be working.But Mary’s life has never been that easy. When an enemy from her past reappears to endanger everything she has nearly achieved, she has to decide whether to confess some dangerous secrets she’s been hiding.A tricky choice, when those secrets could lead to her and Williwim being cast out of the district...or being very, very dead.This fantasy novella is 26,000 words long and contains a bonus deleted scene at the end. Rated PG-13.

Home Alone meets Treasure Island in this swashbuckling pirate adventure. Pirate Boy lives on a ship with two wicked pirates who treat him badly. As soon as he gets the chance he escapes with their boat to a fabulous deserted island. Here his adventures really begin. Pirate Boy loves life on his island but he knows that soon the bad pirates will come searching for their ship and revenge! But our Pirate Boy is brave and resourceful. With traps and tricks he soon outwits the mean pirates.