Books with author Jon Mitchell

The classic adventures of everybody’s favourite flat boy – It’s Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley.Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. One night, a giant pinboard falls on top of him leaving him completely flat. At first, Stanley enjoys the benefits of his strange predicament - it can be fun going in out of rooms simply by sliding under the door. And it's a hoot being posted to your friends in California for a holiday. But it's not always easy being different, and, once the novelty begins to wear off, Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else again. But how will he ever fill out?Jeff Brown’s world-famous character Flat Stanley continues to charm half a century after he first found his way into print.

Malyn Reed meets and quickly falls in love with Beau Brogan, who seems to be perfect in every way… except for the fact that he died in 1910.Malyn Reed has been able to see spirits her entire life. Now that she’s almost seventeen, she’s learned to differentiate between the living and the dead, making her gift feel less like a curse. She ignores the spirits she encounters on a daily basis, which has made living side by side with them slightly easier…until she moves to Dandridge, the second oldest town in Tennessee.Beau Brogan has been dead for a hundred years. In life, he was a hard-working country boy who loved his family and stole the hearts of many southern belles. All of that came to a tragic halt at the age of nineteen when his life came to an untimely end. In death, his spirit has been entombed in a ghostly existence of loneliness and misery he wishes would end… until the Reeds move in.

J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series concludes as the characters try and unite Earth's disparate survivors to overthrow its alien invaders once and for all.The Severed Tower is no more. Zoey has been taken by the Assembly, and time is running out. Just as their feelings are finally out in the open, Holt Hawkins and Mira Toombs are forced apart onto individual quests to try and unite Earth's survivors against their alien invaders.Mira ventures west, holding together a fragile coalition of Wind Traders, White Helix, and rebel Assembly, a mix of groups that do not trust the other. The voices of the Assembly in Mira's head threaten to drive her mad, and she soon learns a grim reality: that the one resource they have on their side, the Strange Lands artifacts, are dying, and soon the world will be a very different place. Meanwhile, Holt travels with Ravan and Avril to Faust, the dangerous desert city of the Menagerie pirate guild. He goes not only to resolve his issues with Tiberius, its tyrannical leader, but to enlist the Menagerie in the fight to save Zoey. Except Tiberius has his own problems. The Menagerie is splintering, word of rebellion is spreading. If Holt wants their help, he might have to side with his greatest enemy in exchange.Valley of Fires is the final installment in J. Barton Mitchell's Conquered Earth series, following Midnight City and The Severed Tower, and it brings the genre-bending series to an utterly unforgettable close.

VALLEY OF FIRES had won the 2014 RT BOOK REVIEWS Reviewers' Choice Awards for best Science Fiction Novel!J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series concludes as the characters try and unite Earth's disparate survivors to overthrow its alien invaders once and for all.The Severed Tower is no more. Zoey has been taken by the Assembly, and time is running out. Just as their feelings are finally out in the open, Holt Hawkins and Mira Toombs are forced apart onto individual quests to try and unite Earth's survivors against their alien invaders.Mira ventures west, holding together a fragile coalition of Wind Traders, White Helix, and rebel Assembly, a mix of groups that do not trust the other. The voices of the Assembly in Mira's head threaten to drive her mad, and she soon learns a grim reality: that the one resource they have on their side, the Strange Lands artifacts, are dying, and soon the world will be a very different place. Meanwhile, Holt travels with Ravan and Avril to Faust, the dangerous desert city of the Menagerie pirate guild. He goes not only to resolve his issues with Tiberius, its tyrannical leader, but to enlist the Menagerie in the fight to save Zoey. Except Tiberius has his own problems. The Menagerie is splintering, word of rebellion is spreading. If Holt wants their help, he might have to side with his greatest enemy in exchange.Valley of Fires is the final installment in J. Barton Mitchell's Conquered Earth series, following Midnight City and The Severed Tower, and it brings the genre-bending series to an utterly unforgettable close.

When Julius Caesar invades Britain (in the year 55 BC), young Ludu is forced to give up his job as King Cassivellaunus' charioteer and head to Rome. There in the Circus Maximus, with the help of a formidable Gaulish princess named Šila and a strange Greek publisher, he faces the best racers in the world. But Caesar's conquest of Gaul is underway, and rebellion is in the air. As legions and warbands prepare for the final battle, can Ludu have it all, or must he choose between glory and freedom? Intended age range: 10-14, but enjoyable for older people too. Chariots of Gaul can stand on its own, but is also the third in a series of historical novels set in ancient Rome. The first two are The Roman Conspiracy and The Ancient Ocean Blues.

Learn about Virginia Hall, the "most dangerous of all Allied spies", in this exciting narrative biography! Virginia never thought she'd be a spy. The young American had been working for the State Department overseas when she was involved in a serious accident. Despite this setback, Hall was eager to do something to help the Allies win World War II. She made her way to France where she helped coordinate underground resistance movements, sabotaging the Nazis at every turn. Her covert operations, including capturing 500 Germans, greatly contributed to the Allies' eventual win. In The Lady is a Spy, award-winning author Don Mitchell(The Freedom Summer Murders) explores the fascinating life of America's greatest female spy. Thoroughly researched and full of rarely seen photographs from Virginia Hall's family, this is an extraordinary, in-depth look at a true hero.

TELLING TIME WITH DINOSAURS!(Children develop imagination & creativity)Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, educational, stories to stir the imagination? This children's storybook has it all – great for early readers!Read it FREE as part of your PRIME or Kindle Unlimited membershipBRIGHT AND COLORFUL ILLUSTRATIONS: Have fun and help your child develop with Telling Time with Dinosaurs. REVIEWS:“Having taught many kids to tell time in my life, I can appreciate the simplicity and vividness of this book. it is perfect and has just the right impact to introduce kids to clocks and telling time.” ~~B M “This book is adorable clock book. Love the way he starts out his day from sunrise to about 8:30pm. The illustration is so colorful that it will capture any young child's attention. I highly recommended it for Preschoolers through 2nd graders.” ~~J Kirk"This little book has very colourful illustrations and tells the time of various actions from getting up in the morning to sleepy time. I hope your child does not have to rise at 6 a.m. though! This little dinosaur's school must be quite far away or maybe he is very slow in the morning like some of us. In any case, this book will be of great help with your pre-schooler and later when he/she learns about time, at school. You and your little one will enjoy this book."~~W. StejskalTelling Time with Dinosaurs: All about time - Put a smile on your child's face - Help kids tell time - Read aloud (BEDTIME stories children’s picture books Book 1) READY TO READ: (READ ALOUD TO YOUR KIDS):As a parent, you have the power to boost your children’s learning potential simply by making books (ebooks, paperbacks) an integral part of their lives: Reading is fun - Children are introduced to new concepts such as numbers, colors, shapes and alphabet, in a fun, age appropriate way.Children build listening skills, vocabulary, memory, and language skills.Children develop imagination and creativity.Children learn information about the world around them.Children develop individual interests in special subjects like dinosaurs, cats, or cars.Children learn positive behavior patterns and social values.Children learn positive attitudes towards themselves and others.CHILDREN LEARN THE JOY OF READINGTags: Preschool, kindergarten, teach time, bedtime story, kids book, how to tell time, smart kids, age 3-7, Children’s book, book for kids, beginner readers, bedtime stories for children, short stories, ready to read, early reader, library book, fun book clocks, teaching children time, goodnight book, toddler, baby family time, picture books, dinosaur book, school, childrens books, kid’s book, kids, sleep time, classroom discussion

J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series set in an alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world returns as the children forge deeper into the most dangerous lands in search of The Severed TowerHolt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assembly army. Zoey's powers are unlocked, but who and what she is remains a mystery. All she knows is that she must reach the Severed Tower, an infamous location in the middle of the world's most dangerous landscape: The Strange Lands, a place where the laws of physics have completely broken down. But the closer they get to the Tower, the more precarious things become. The Assembly has pursued Zoey into the Strange Lands. Among them is a new group, their walkers and machines strangely bereft of any color, stripped to bare metal, and whose agenda seems to differ from the rest. To make matters worse, the group hunting Holt are here, too, led by a dangerous and beautiful pirate named Ravan. So is Mira's first love, Benjamin Aubertine, whose singular ambition to reach the Tower threatens to get them all killed.Then there's the Strange Lands themselves. They have inexplicably begun to grow, spreading outwards, becoming more powerful. Somehow, it all seems tied to Zoey herself, and the closer she gets to the Tower, the weaker she becomes.