Books with author Jr. Johnny Ray Barnes

The students of Fairfield Junior High have noticed that the strange things happening in their town are becoming more common — more dangerous. With each dreadful encounter, they are further convinced — monsters are real.Morgan Taylor is convinced. He couldn't deny that a small lizard-like monster was rapping on his bedroom window, asking for help. A real monster, just outside his window.Astonished, he lets it in. With wide eyes he listens to its amazing tale and desperate plea for help — but could he believe the little monster's story? A tale of an object so incredible it staggers the imagination and of the hideous man-creature, the Collector, who has come to Fairfield to claim it.Dark forces have gathered under the Collector's command, in a hilltop mansion on the edge of town — Fairfield Manor. The crumbling halls, once empty and silent, now echo with the howls of his army of creatures. They have filled the once-barren rooms with mysterious artifacts gathered from the four corners of the earth. Nothing will stop the acquisition of the Collector's greatest prize.Join the students of Fairfield Junior High and the renegade lizard-monster, Rilo Buru, in a race against the Collector and his strange forces on an adventure that will change the natural and the unnatural world forever.

A monster is coming after Shane Reece. An earthquake two hundred miles from Fairfield has unleashed something terrible - Clayton T. Motley, a zombie gunslinger looking for revenge. Back in the middle 1800s, one of Shane's ancestors ran Motley out of Fairfield by putting a bullet in his hide. A posse chased the fleeing bandit for weeks until Motley holed up in a cave, where he eventually succumbed to his gunshot wound. The bullet inside him, however, was made out of something . . . strange. Now, almost one hundred and fifty years later, the earthquake has freed the undead gunfighter from his rocky prison - and he wants revenge. He's coming after the only Reece left in Fairfield - Shane. . . . and this town's not big enough for the both of them.

Rilo, a fugitive monster who believes he is the last of his kind, is helped by Morgan Taylor and his friends, and gives them superpowers in return, but when they are challenged to a mysterious contest for supernatural hunters, Rilo discovers that his people are alive but enslaved.Rilo, a fugitive monster who believes he is the last of his kind, gives his new friends superpowers, but when they are challenged to a mysterious contest, Rilo discovers that his people are alive but enslaved

Stephanie Meeker has a secret that's getting too dangerous to keep. Her cousin Daniel is determined to win the Fairfield Junior Science Competition, and he has been working on something in his room for days. Now Stephanie has discovered his shocking secret, the greatest science project in the world, but Daniel has sworn her to secrecy. Even as the project becomes more and more terrifying, Stephanie tells no one about the "Electronic Brain," a computer capable of thinking for itself. Daniel promises Stephanie he can keep it under control until he wins his award. The brain has other things on its mind...