Books with author Mark Thomas

You're Only a Prayer Away Meet Tyson and Stefan. One strange night, they suddenly - weirdly - connect with each other in a time contortion that spans exactly a thousand years. Stefan is a young warrior in training in the Middle Ages, trapped in a tower while raiders ravage everything below. Through a long, sleepless night, the two guys help each other wrestle with responsibilities they don't want. And Stefan shows how to link up with a source of strength that Tyson can hardly even imagine. It all has to do with a Man named Jesus, and the way He prayed. Follow their spiritual adventure, and walk into the journey Jesus wants for you. He'll show you, as no one else can, how to pray in the way that works.

Young Billy Jenson and Jimmy Fox are best friends as they come of age in Jasonville, Indiana. The Johnson House, a vacant house rumored by neighborhood children to be haunted, becomes the focal point for several missing children from surrounding states. Does the eerie tower hold the answers, or do they lie in the dark, mysterious depths of the long hidden well in the back yard? Follow Billy and Jimmy as they explore, as kids do, discovering whether ghosts really do exist.

Paddington 2 comes to theaters on January 12, 2018, with all of the friendship, humor, and marmalade that made the first film a critical and box office hit!Paddington has come to love his new home with the Browns in London. But the city’s charms were first introduced to him by his aunt Lucy back in Peru. This 8x8 storybook, filled with full-color images from the film, is a letter from Paddington to his aunt, recounting the many adventures, friends and magic he’s found in his new home.

After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog, Sparky, Victor Frankenstein harnesses the power of lightning to bring his best friend back to life . . . with a few minor adjustments. Victor tries to hide his homegrown creation in his attic, but when others learn of Victor’s recent hair raising experiment, they too want their pets to come back from the grave!

Anna and Steve Cosgrove are the 15 year old twin children of the Fleet's greatest hero, fast-tracked to be the next generation of commanders at Fleet Academy Alpha. Except they are thrown into something far more serious than classroom exercises: the Fleet is moving to take out a major threat, their half-brother, who ran away from the Academy years ago with valuable stolen technology in hand. Now they have to decide between family and duty...

Jilly McGilly’s world has been transformed after her toy bear comes to life and she has been visited by a Leprechaun. Jilly, who can now speak to animals uses her special gift to introduce us to new worlds of adventure and fun.In this story, Book 2 of the series, Jilly wins a competition that brings her and her friends to Iraq where they engage in an important mission with Iraqi children.Fully illustrated, children of all ages can grow and learn from the lessons taught by Jilly and her friends. She is an engaging character who will keep us all coming back for more.

Although Alexander, a Japanese-American teen living in a small Southern-California beach town, enters his junior year of high school apathetically, he is soon thrust out of this ennui when he begins a secret relationship with Lila, his teacher’s daughter, as well as when he befriends a troubled freshman, Kenneth. Things finally seem to be looking up for Alex, all until Kenneth forms reluctant plans to bring a gun to school and Alex must act fast to stop this new friend from doing the unimaginable.No More Dead Kids is a firebrand call to action regarding the United States’ adolescent mental health epidemic and the seemingly endless cycle of school shootings and violence, examining American adolescent life through the eyes of three teenagers discovering love, music, sexuality, and personal identity during a tumultuous and uncertain time both at home and during a cross-country road trip.

You’re Only a Prayer Away Meet Tyson and Stefan. One strange night, they suddenly—weirdly—connect with each other in a time contortion that spans exactly a thousand years. Stefan is a young warrior in training in the Middle Ages, trapped in a tower while raiders ravage everything below. Through a long, sleepless night, the two guys help each other wrestle with responsibilities they don’t want. And Stefan shows how to link up with a source of strength that Tyson can hardly even imagine. It all has to do with a Man named Jesus, and the way He prayed. Follow their spiritual adventure, and walk into the journey Jesus wants for you. He’ll show you, as no one else can, how to pray in the way that works. Story Behind the Book“This book became a reality thanks to these four things: a recurring image in my fresh-from-sleep thoughts about a boy in a bell tower, extensive Bible study on Jesus’ prayers, the publisher’s request for a youth book focusing on Jesus and prayer; and then a friend’s off-hand mention of the phrase, ‘What would Jesus pray?’” —Mack Thomas