Books with author Michael Dawson

Eleven-year-old Max Martin and his fellow scooter riders Oscar Santiago and Lily Blue (and her pet chameleon, Speck) are hot on the trail of a thief in a puzzling case: The Wheels That Vanished. Max saw a strange green bicycle whiz by him onto a bridge. But it never came out the other end! How could it have vanished? The thief on the bicycle stole two very important things, and now it's up to Max, Oscar, and Lily to use their clues, and their scooters, to find them. It will take the best scooter skills they have, and a wild scooter ride, for the three friends to catch the crook!

Finnegan's uncle receives an invitation to be a finalist in an international mystery writers' award competition. Since the author must be present to accept the prize, that means exotic Saharan travel for Finn and Uncle Stoppard. The competition winner will receive $1,000,000 and The Ruby Raven, a figurine of a dark, carved bird, with real ruby gems as eyes. It's no surprise that all of the writers are eager to win this coveted award, in fact some are dying to possess it.....

I DON'T KNOW WHY I FELT SICK. I MEAN, YES, IT WAS THE FIRST DEAD BODY I EVER SAW. BUT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE COMFORTABLE. AFTER ALL, MY WHOLE FAMILY LIKES DEAD THINGS....Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake is staying with his Uncle Stoppard, a bestselling mystery writer, and still hoping his parents will return from an archaeological expedition in Iceland. They disappeared there several years ago.Life with his uncle is fairly normal -- until the day Finn discovers a body in the basement. A dead body. It's in the storage area where Finn's parents left behind gold treasure from their last expedition. And missing from the storage space is a magnificent Mayan gold figure, the Horizontal Man....

Want to ride a magical creature? Cast a spell on the jerks at school? Fend off monsters before they conquer your treehouse city? Join Ricci’s adventure as he enters his first year of magic school!Ricci’s life changes forever when a talking squirrel rescues him from certain death and whisks him away to a fascinating land filled with elves, dwarves, and faeries. King Florien, elf king of Trinnifain, insists Ricci live in his own personal villa in the treehouse city, and attend magic school with the elf children. Ricci makes fast friends with Loreign, a surly elf, Banlin, a lanky dwarf, and Summer, a cheeky faerie, and together they learn not only magic, but other amazing skills such as how to ride fantasy creatures, how to control the elements, and how to fight with all types of weapons.Disaster strikes when a thief steals one of the city’s Protection Seeds. The Seeds are the only thing which prevents monster attacks, so the enchanted city will fall if the crook steals the remaining three. But who is the thief? And what will it take to stop him? Ricci bands together with his school friends—and enemies—to discover who the burglar is before he destroys those Ricci loves. But time is running short, and Ricci still has so much magic to learn.

Discover the power of FRIENDSHIP in this must-have picture book featuring DC Comics' WONDER WOMAN! As one of the World's Greatest Super Heroes, WONDER WOMAN has many powers and abilities, including lightning-quick speed, super-strength, and a golden lasso. But her most important skill of all? Being a friend! In this addition to the bestselling DC Super Heroes Picture Book series, the Amazon Princess demonstrates the traits and importance of healthy friendships. With bright, bold illustrations and action-packed text, award-winning author Michael Dahl (Bedtime for Batman, Good Morning, Superman, and Be a Star, Wonder Woman) crafts a fresh, exciting way to approach this social and emotional learning (SEL) skill while pleasing super hero fans, young and old.

We love it when people sit us down to tell us a story. Hey! Grandpa Mike, tell us a story! The God of the Bible loved you and me before we were born. He wants us to love him too! Loving God is the most important thing we can do every day. Grandpa Mike tells you stories and explains bible verses to you. You will find out that God is waiting for you to meet with him - how about starting right now, says Grandpa Mike!

Late one night, two friends hurry home after a birthday party ends. On the way, they spy a small lending library that hadn t been there before the party. When they open the little door and browse the books, a claw reaches out and pulls the girls inside! They find themselves trapped in a dark world with a shadowy beast that has a taste for voracious readers . . ."

"WHAT IS THE TURTLE'S NAME?""MY NAME'S FINN," I SAID.THE PIRATES GASPED.THE GIANT PEERED DOWN AT ME. I FELT LIKE A BUG UNDER HER BOOT. "FINN," SHE SAID. "A GOOD NAME FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL JOIN THE FISH."Swept overboard during a thunderstorm in the South Seas, thirteen-year-old Finn lands on a tropical island, with palm trees, nesting turtles, beautiful sunsets, and...a dead body. Finn and his famous mystery-writer Uncle Stoppard traveled to the Great Barrier Reef in search of Finn's long-missing archaeologist parents. Instead they are both picked up by a ship full of fierce modern-day pirates and their fearless female leader, Blue Jade. No sooner are Finn and his uncle onboard when mayhem breaks loose: someone is secretly poisoning the crew members, one by one. Furious, Blue Jade gives Finn and Uncle Stop twenty-four hours to find the killer and prove their own innocence. Otherwise they will face her deadly pets Mittens and Fluffy, two man-killing blue-ringed octopuses....