Books with author Lee Roddy

These captivating stories are great for young boys (and girls) from ages 8 to 12. Twelve-year-old Josh Ladd longs to see his best friend who moved to Hawaii. On the way home from his California school Josh is approached by a stranger asking suspicious questions. This small incident turns into major danger when Josh and his family fly to Hawaii and the mysterious stranger follows them. The friends are thrust into all kinds of high adventure and danger throughout the 15- book series. Each book is teeming with adventure and enforces Christian ethics and morals. These books are great for reluctant readers.

Josh Ladd, his friend Tank Catlett, and his father are taken prisoners after their plane crashes offshore of a remote section of Hawaii. The captors are emotionally unstable war veterans who run a smuggling operation and cannot let their prisoners go free. Mr. Catlett needs medical attention, so Josh and Tank make a desperate attempt to escape while pursued by a captor who forces them toward an erupting volcano.

What would life be like for you if you were a teenager growing up during the American Civil War? In this first book in a series, life for three very different people struggle to survive in a conflict over which they had no power. FOR EMILY, a spirited girl recently orphaned, it meant she was forced to leave the North to live with slave-holding relatives in Virginia. An abolitionist’s daughter, Emily’s outspoken Union views constantly collided with her host’s Confederate beliefs. Powerless to leave or change her situation, could Emily learn to cope?FOR GIDEON, son of a hardscrabble dirt farmer, the war starting meant his family needed him on the farm. This seemed to destroy his dream of going to Richmond to become a writer. But his dream would not die. Instead, it created an inner drive that pitted him against many obstacles, and repeatedly plunged him into grave danger. FOR NAT, a strong-willed slave who had been secretly educated against Virginia’s laws, had been bought as a body servant for the brutal son of Briarstone Plantation’s master who was away fighting the Yankees. Besides his own longing to be free, Nat’s objective is to find his mother, sister and brothers who had been sold at auction. He planned to help them escape to Canada. Nat’s daring efforts resulted in harsh punishment that could scar his body, but not his determination.

These captivating stories are great for young boys (and girls) from ages 8 to 12. Twelve-year-old Josh Ladd longs to see his best friend who moved to Hawaii. On the way home from his California school Josh is approached by a stranger asking suspicious questions. This small incident turns into major danger when Josh and his family fly to Hawaii and the mysterious stranger follows them. The friends are thrust into all kinds of high adventure throughout the 15-book series. Each book is teeming with adventure and enforces Christian ethics and morals. These books are great for reluctant readers.

In the first five books in the Between Two Flags series, readers followed three remarkable young people fighting to achieve their individual goals. Each has dealt with his own hopes and ambitions in the midst of danger and turmoil in the American Civil War. Now in book #6: NAT falsely charged with stealing from his master desperately seeks to flee to freedom on the Underground Railroad. First he must escape hounds pursuing him through a swamp where other fugitives have vanished forever.GIDEON excited to work for the Richmond newspaper is given a dangerous assignment which could land him in trouble with the Confederate authorities but he chooses the risk to fulfill his writing dreams.EMILY'S frustrating relationship with William, her slave-holding cousin, reaches a climax when he forces her to leave Briarstone with no money and nowhere to go. She's frantic to obtain another pass to allow her to reach Illinois in time for Christmas.

Adventure, mystery, and excitement repeatedly thrust 13-year-old D. J. Dillon into the kind of trouble young readers love. A favorite of beginning readers, families, and teachers, this popular series follows D. J.'s adventures with bears and other wild animals in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The chapter books are fun to read and reinforce traditional family values. Each story has a subtle evengelical tone as well. A glossary is included in the back of each book that helps build vocabulary. This set is the first five books in the series.