Books with author Michael Jolls

Long distance prank calls, T.P. strung from the hotel ceiling, fire alarms pulled in the absence of fire. Sixteen-year-old Jonah Gray will do anything for attention. But when his work-obsessed dad ignores his most shocking prank yet, he turns his attention elsewhere. Girls. He meets Claire. Not only is she French and gorgeous, but she seems genuinely interested in him. The only problem: she wants Jonah dead.Kidnapped and dragged to Corsica, Jonah wakes to find himself imprisoned. But he isn’t alone. Locked in with him is Cassandra, a woman with no recollection of her past. Between piecing together the mystery of Cassandra’s former life and wrestling with a deadly attraction to Claire, he learns the truth. Claire is hunting a water witch who has plagued the Mediterranean for centuries. And Jonah is the bait.When a storm rolls in and cuts the power, the witch creeps ashore to seize the one she came for. Not Jonah. Cassandra. Now Jonah, who has never committed a selfless act, must confront a life-altering decision: save himself or descend into the witch's lair and sacrifice everything for a friend. But if he chooses the latter, he’ll discover just who Cassandra really is, and some secrets are better left unearthed.

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?

Who Saved Whom is a family story of pet loss, lost love, and the grieving stages children experience as their home is now deafeningly silent. As a school psychologist it was apparent to me when after putting to sleep our two aged beagles, Lila and Annie, my children went through the grieving stages similarly as my wife and I, but also with some noticeable differences. Who Saved Whom began as my letter to them, an awareness to know it was okay to feel the loss as they felt it, and as we moved through the grieving process together, it was okay to ask all the questions that consumed their now silent days. It is my hope that Who Saved Whom will help families experiencing similar loss talk through their grief, trust their homes and hearts again through pet adoption, and pay attention to His plan in the process.

Finding Lorey is a marvelous story about friends coming together to brave the perils of the wide open Pacific Ocean. In order to save their home, the Great Barrier Reef, which is dying from a disease, they have been told by wise old Rusty that Lorey has the magic to restore the Reef to its lively old self.Their search takes them looking all over the Pacific Ocean. First to Hawaii to find Sid, an elephant fish that never forgets and knows where to find Lorey, a unicorn Seahorse who has the magical ring of Poseidon, the Greek god of the Seven Seas.Their journey takes them from Hawaii to the resting place of Atlantis where Lorey lives, then by Easter Island, Japan's Tokyo Bay, and a school of whales.They finally return to Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, where Lorey works the magic of the ring to bring the coral of the reef back to life.If you enjoy this adventure, continue to follow Lorey in the story of the Chinese Sea Dragons of Ying and Yang.

It's the end of the world as we know it. Trixie Collins is a normal teen making her way through high school. One night at a party, a boy comes on to her and won't take no for an answer. As she jerks her arm away, his fingernails cut into her skin. When she finds her dog's mutilated body and realizes she's to blame, she starts to think maybe the zombie apocalypse they've been screaming about on the news isn't a hoax after all. Worse, she begins to think maybe she's one of the infected. Now it's a fight for life as she joins together with her brethren to stop the humans intent on destroying them. Are zombies all bad, or is it just a huge misunderstanding?