Books with author Michael Joe

This is the first book in The Abigale Chronicles Series of chapter books for young readers.Abigale Fontenot is a 12 year old girl living in West Bluff, Louisiana, who believes she is perfectly ordinary.When she's threatened by a bully on her way to school one day, what happens causes Abigale to begin a new journey. She has to ask herself, "Is it real or is it all just a dream?"As Abigale learns in Book One, things are rarely exactly as they seem. Friendships are formed with unlikely people: a wizened old woman and Abigale's arch nemesis, Emmett, and with their help Abigale learns she is far from ordinary.

Gregory, a failed inventor, is also a keen gardener. He loves flowers and likes to create new varieties of his own. It is a pity that these flowers also come with a very unusual aroma. His green tulips with pink spots stink of cow dung; his brown roses with orange stripes smell of roast beef; his grey daffodils with purple dots smell of pickled onions and his black dahlias with red ziz-zags pong of sweaty arm-pits. Living amongst the blue petunias that smell of petrol fumes is a strange looking weed that has the power to heal. So when Edith gets struck down with the deadly moo-ing disease, Gregory has high hopes of curing her with the help of the mighty weed - only to discover that it has uprooted itself and run away!Racing against the clock, can Gregory find the mighty weed and save Edith before it is too late? An amusing tale for children between the ages of 8 to 11 that many adults will also find amusing.

This is the second book in The Abigale Chronicles Series of chapter books for young readers.Twelve-year-old Abigale Fontenot is struggling to figure out whether her adventures are real or imagined.After an adventure with Amazonian women in book one, Abigale and Emmett have formed a bond through mutual trust and secrets, but Kristy has turned against Abigale because of it.Now, Abigale again finds herself in a precarious situation with a city full of talking cats. Emmett is once more by her side as she faces down a vicious cat queen in an attempt to avoid certain death and restore the leadership of the city to its rightful owner.Will they succeed, or will they be roasted alive? What will happen when Kristy overhears the discussions about the adventures with Ada?

This is the third book in The Abigale Chronicles Series of chapter books for young readers.Abigale Fontenot is turning thirteen. Just when she thinks her birthday couldn't possibly get any worse, a new adventure takes hold.Abigale and Emmett are whisked away to a world of fantasy where knights, dragons, and princesses are the order of the day. Abigale is kidnapped by an evil prince in a nearby kingdom, and it's up to Emmett to rescue her. But Abigale finds that escape is not the most important thing; restoring the evil prince's kindness that has been locked away in a magical book by a wicked sorceress must come first. While Emmett is trying to rescue Abigale, she is trying to free the prince from his curse.Will she succeed in her quest before the evil prince kills Emmett, or will she fail and lose her new best friend? Will death matter if the whole thing is a dream, or are the adventures real and truly dangerous?

Until the whispers began, Joshua was like all the other village boys, helping out at the market, making a little money from the tourists, getting up to mischief.So what if his father was the only butcher in a village of fishermen, a loner who preferred to spend his evenings carving wood? Is it true what everyone is saying -- that Joshua's father is a 'mountain man', one of the people feared and mistrusted by the villagers?When Joshua's life takes an surprising turn, he discovers that being different does matter. Maybe it's not enough to be just Joshua?