Books with author Joy Anderson

Fort Benton, Montana’s main street was a child’s delight. The MacKay children, Rob and Marlo, loved this strange world of soldiers, trappers, Indians, and cowboys who walked and drank in the town’s confines. For adventurers, the fort was the end of the line.The notorious Clint Sharndo gang rides into town. Turns out the gang had robbed the gold shipment from the steamer Dakota. Deciding to lay low for awhile, they get rooms in a local hotel. Marlo playing near the hotel takes it all in.Having drank too much one evening and back in their hotel room, they talk of their robbery, and pass around a map where the gold is buried. What they don’t know is that Marlo, ever the adventure seeker, and her brother Rob, whom Marlo has dragged along, found the window to their hotel room. They see and hear everything.She sneaks through the window, into their room after the gang leaves, and retrieves the map. She convinces Rob not to tell the Sheriff. This is their secret and they will be the town hero’s if they recover the gold. They study the map and find, to their delight, that the gold is hidden in the White Cliffs Badlands, that border the Missouri River. They build a raft and take off into an exciting, bold mission. With the Sharndo gang hot on their trail and Indians in the badlands, will they make it to the hiding place and return safely home? Find out in Rob and Marlo’s, Dakota Gold Adventure.

Anne of Green Gables meets Marty McFly in this time-traveling adventure! Fourteen-year-old Sadie doesn’t believe there’s a God. Why should she? Her best friend moved away. She always clams up in front of Caleb, the cutest guy in school. And the Whine Trine—a clique of three pretty, popular girls, all hate her. How could it get any worse? How about being forced to go on a youth group trip…with all of them? Sadie, full of angst, winds up on a five-hour bus ride to Hoosick Falls, NY, where she gets stuck on a team with the Whine Trine, hunting through the woods for silly scavenger hunt items all weekend. Sadie wanders away from the group and finds an abandoned log cabin, deep in the woods, where the first item on her list—a drawer knob—turns into a key that unlocks a secret passageway behind a painting on the wall. But this secret passageway is no mere tunnel—it is a wormhole that stretches through time!When the portal closes behind her, Sadie finds herself trapped in 1876 Hoosick Falls. In desperation, she cries out to the God who she has turned her back on and is soon reunited with Caleb, who came in through the time portal to rescue her. Together, they discover that when various items on each of their scavenger hunt lists are paired together, the time portal re-opens, randomly shipping them off to a new place and time. During their travels, Sadie inhabits the bodies of Jerusha Edwards, Fanny Crosby, Harriet Tubman, Phyllis Wheatley, Elizabeth Tilly, and Maria Mitchell. Living out the day-to-day lives of these girls as teenagers, Sadie realizes that when ordinary girls put their faith in an extraordinary God, they can transform their trials into testimonies that change the world. But Sadie and Caleb lose their scavenger hunt lists along the way. Will they remember all the items on their lists? Will they keep jumping from time to time forever? Will they ever find their way back home?

Zack is back—and taking on the school play! Bah humbug! Zack Delacruz wants to win the role of Scrooge in Davy Crockett Middle School’s production of A Christmas Carol—and Abhi’s admiration, too. But he’s not the only one trying out for the play. So are José (El Pollo Loco), Marquis, and Janie, who dreams of being all three ghosts. What role will Zack end up playing on stage . . . and in his life? Bowling balls, gurgling stomachs, complete chaos, and quick detective work turn this year’s drama into a spectacular scene that will have actors rising to new heights—literally—and leave readers rolling in the aisles.

How do you explain faith to a little child? The Big Topics for Little Kids series uses the metaphors of a father away at war and his letters to a daughter who doesn't remember ever seeing him. With concrete examples to which children can relate, Joel Anderson breaks down this huge concept into tiny pieces that little minds can understand. Parents will appreciate this tool that will help them discuss the abstract topic of faith with their children.

This eighth in a series continues this ground-breaking word-by-word analysis of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. This volume covers chapter 3.3, a long and difficult chapter in the form of a father's dream. Father HCE dreams of a passive son named "Yawn," a version of Shaun. Made passive by sucking up to customers, the father's primal desires project a passive son potentially subject to father control. And this Yawn is so passive he needs help in releasing his feces. Talk about anal retentive! The dreamer's script loads Yawn's defenseless psyche with aspects of father-troubled sons from the collective past, including Freud's famous client Wolfman, Cain and Oedipus. Father trouble registers as distortions in the son's sexual relationships. Father-fearing Wolfman took his controlled son role to a "hole" new level. After witnessing his parents' sex a tergo [male erect, female on knees, doggy style or "dog ma"] and fearing his father's angry reaction to his witness and celebratory primal turd, he adopted the ultimate passive beta male attitude: he wanted to be his father's wife. Yawn in the role of father-troubled Cain is questioned in the dream by the synoptic gospellers [Matthew, Mark and Luke]. They serve as tools of the father's desire to control his son, as they controlled the historical presentation of god's son Jesus. They try to reduce Yawn's particular take on independence, his Cain-like tendency to pursue his whims, including killing to get all the sisters. Cain's lack of caring gives us the problems of cities, which are splattered all over this chapter. Yawn in the role of father-troubled Oedipus makes the same mistake as Jesus in Gesthemane: he treats his foster father as his real father. Oedipus ends up with his mommy as wife as Yawn is hung up on his. The suggestion is made that the dreamer knows at some level that Shaun was fathered by Father Michael with a blackmailed ALP, not by foster father HCE. Freud's hypothesis plays out through Yawn's porous character: "individual gaps in human truth are filled by prehistoric truths." Yawn bears the puncture wounds of the prehistoric father desires for control. Yawn is defenseless because he lacks individuality. The chapter starts with an anal retentive and dependent son Yawn all alone in the dark, fearful and needing help with an enema. The chapter concludes as the new day dawns and a spontaneous evacuation is made. Gracing these more promising circumstances, the voice of the Holy Ghost [Joyce's version] as the individuality-enhancing father of Jesus boldly breaks into the dream, silences the OT father voice and brands as fraudulent the presentation of Jesus as a servant and eunuch by the three synoptic gospellers. The mystical gospeller John bears witness to the presence of the Holy Ghost by unloading a trinity of turds of shame and the old in order to clear his mind for active and mystical participation in the Holy Ghost. He unloads spontaneously, just as Wolfman did his primal turd. The Quick shed the Dead.

This lighthearted children's book (written by an award winning school teacher) has many early learning concepts woven into this charming, repetitive story. Along with simple but juicy illustrations, kids learn quickly how to "read" along!Counting to ten, social skills, comparing sizes and shapes, big and liitle, and some additional math concepts around sharing to explore! We also can't forget that this author has made the learning FUNNY! How many carrots does Little Bunny need before he will share with his friend Mouse? Maybe two is enough or maybe four but you will need to read this book to find out more. Count to ten with Bunny and Mouse and find out where the twist in this tale changes everything!Also, learn the importance of sharing and how not sharing might make another person feel!How many different ways can you share?Compare the size of carrots and learn that perhaps, 2 smaller carrots is the same as 1 larger one!Enjoy the first story in JK Anderson's upcoming list of books!

Zack Delacruz is back—and this time he has a crush! Zach really wants to meet Abhi, the new girl at school. But things get off to a rough start when he accidentally knocks her to the ground during a game of dodgeball. And whenever he tries to make amends, she just ignores him. Nothing works—not his friends’ advice or his “lucky” cologne. In fact, he just seems more and more cursed! Then, at the Fall Fiesta-val, Zack finally learns the real reason behind Abhi’s cold shoulder . . . but not before total chaos erupts. With a runaway train, exploding confetti-filled eggs, and Abhi’s terrifying older brother, will Zack ever get a chance to talk to his crush? In the end, Zack learns what it means to believe, to listen, and to be a good friend.   This dynamite sequel captures the middle-school experience—and will keep readers laughing from beginning to end.

What if your chance at redemption was stolen away? After his adventure in the past, Kyle Cash comes back to an alternate version of his life barely recognizable to him. He’s determined to learn more about time weaving from the mysterious woman he met when he visited 1998, but first Kyle will have to survive Stevenson Youth Correctional’s toughest gang. If he can, his next trip through the tunnel may give Kyle another chance to fix the past, and even a glimpse into his own future. Doomed is Book #2 from Time of Death, an EPIC Press series. Each EPIC Press series is made up of 6 short installments, intended for readers 15 and older