Books with author Max Davis

The Oliphant sisters--Miranda, Lulu and Leggy--spend every summer at their family's run-down Great Camp in the Adirondacks built by their great-great grandfather, back when the family was prosperous. As much as the girls look forward to time away from their New York City all-girls school, the tedium of an entire summer enjoying unspoiled nature, with no wireless connection anywhere, is more than they can bear. This summer their parents, Professor and Judge Oliphant, are busy with work and have handed them over to their kind but absentminded Aunt Ariel, who provides even less structure than their parents. Miranda daydreams about redecorating their moldy, book-filled camp; Lulu hungers for competitive sports; and Leggy, the littlest Oliphant, drives everyone crazy with her constant talk of fairies. When their odious cousins arrive unexpectedly, bringing with them all the tensions the girls thought they had left behind for the summer, the girls, who were each adopted from China, fight for their place in the family and for their beloved summer home. They discover that being an Oliphant brings lots of surprises.

By 1873, long since the Golden Age of pirates and swashbuckling adventure, the oceans, it's said, were tamed, at least that's what young French orphan girl Chanel Angeli thought when she settled down and married into a rich mining family by means of their charming, gorgeous heir Oliver Aubry. Until, that is, Oliver accepts a business proposition from his old mentors Lord Beaumont, who has begun excavating an island in the Azores Archipelago that holds many mysterious and deadly secrets. When Beaumont betrays and enslaves Oliver on the isolated piece of land, which is thought to be capitol city of Atlantis, Chanel escapes and teams up with the devil-may-care captain of the Margeaux, endeavoring to rescue her husband, but along the way she finds, within herself, uncovering many mysteries of her own...

A hilarious all-new comic mini-series based on DreamWorks Animation’s latest big screen adventure!In Home, when Earth is taken over by the alien race the Boov, who try to relocate the humans, it’s up to one resourceful girl, Tip, and a banished member of the Boov named Oh, to work together to put things right… This brand new series of original comic series features all new stories involving Tip, Oh, Captain Smek, Kyle and more of the gang!

A hilarious all-new comic mini-series based on DreamWorks Animation’s latest big screen adventure!In Home, when Earth is taken over by the alien race the Boov, who try to relocate the humans, it’s up to one resourceful girl, Tip, and a banished member of the Boov named Oh, to work together to put things right… This brand new series of original comic series features all new stories involving Tip, Oh, Captain Smek, Kyle and more of the gang!

Bleuette is a nine-year-old French girl in 1905. She is based on the French porcelain doll of the same name that debuted in a French magazine in 1905. Bleuette comes from a family of moderate means, but her class mates thinks she's from a well off family because she always has new dresses. When she's invited to a fancy birthday party by the richest girl in class, she can't wait to go and see the fancy house. But will the girl learn she is just the daughter a seamstress and withdraw the invitation?

These short stories are easy to read to your children and family members!It contains humorous and rhyming themes which you may enjoy to read over and over again! These stories you may find exaggerated and not to be taken seriously! You may use your own imagination with the illustrations in the book to make it more enjoyable and help each other read.

This story follows teen-ager Thomas and his family in rural new Zealand. The book is littered with untranslated Maori and is written in a style that should not hinder the reader i.e. they should get the gist of the material, with a bit of guesswork or deduction. If this fails, google translate may help the reader.This is Thomas' story. Told in his own words."Orphaned as a baby, my grandparents took me in. We live in the Valley in South Hokianga, New Zealand. Life’s chushy but lonely. When I’m not at school, I hunt, ride, swim and chill with friends. Things change when I’m trapped in a spiritual world. All cos of a fight with my stink cousin from the city Anthony, who takes over my friends.Out in the bush I stumble into a world ruled by Te Heikawa, a tohunga who lived in my world centuries ago and now exists in the spiritual world. Te Heikawa’s after revenge for wrongs of the past and somehow I know I have to stop him. He’s waited … and waited … for someone from my world to stumble into his, and like a kereru dazed by fermented miro berries, I drop in. With victory in his sight all Te Heikawa has to do is bring his warriors back to life. Easy if you’re Te Heikawa and you know how. And he does, using my blood – yep, creeps me out too - he brings his fierce senior warrior Keriawaiweka back to life too.Don’t know if it’s shock, the waiting or what, but I find other powers too. There’s other tricky stuff that pushes me past the physical zone and more.Anthony accidently joins me in this other world. Together we’re forced to resurrect other warriors. Yep, that’s right. More blood required. Our escape plan bombs. I lose my new powers and my desire to fight. Only then do I chill for a bit. Hang with Anthony and the warriors, develop observation and fighting skills, and connect with the fairy people. It’s not all sweet, an old demon, my mistrust of Anthony, threatens our new relationship. Takes a while to sort things and break out of this other world. When we do, we realise that the wrong against Te Heikawa all those years ago somehow affects us and our family in the present day, and that we must work quickly to stop Te Heikawa and the warriors from taking revenge.There’s a final twist. We find our grandfather has kept secrets that endanger us. When he discloses the most crucial and important of those secrets, this new knowledge changes our lives forever …"

The Kookie Soda company is staging a promotional event for its new drink, POW! "It's delicious, and packed with fifteen vitamins and minerals! Four out of five doctors say it's better for you than regular soda!" At least, that's what the advertisements say. But what's with the fluorescent green color?36 youngsters are chosen to run in Kookie Soda's Extreme Maze. They face tricks, traps, and trivia in their pursuit of the exit and the Grand Prize. But operating behind the scenes is the mysterious organization, Spectamus, and their agent, Mrs. Blanc. Who are they, and what are they up to? Three of the young teens, Canelopy, Jeff, and Zoe, enter the maze as competitors, but quickly come together as allies. Together, they may have what it takes to beat the maze, but will they come out unscathed?