Books with author Mike Thaler

Enjoy these fun-filled chapter books in the Black Lagoon Adventures. These popular stories mix school, monsters, and common kid problems with hilarious results! Books include: #1, The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon; #3, The Class Election from the Black Lagoon; #6, The Field Day from the Black Lagoon; #9, The Christmas Party from the Black Lagoon; #11, Snow Day from the Black Lagoon; #13, Back-to-School Fright from the Black Lagoon; #17, The Summer Vacation from the Black Lagoon; #23, Earth Day from the Black Lagoon; #26, The Big Game from the Black Lagoon.

2018 Whitney Award Finalist - Best Middle Grade 2018 Whitney Award Finalist - Best Novel by a Debut Author2018 IAN Book of the Year Award FinalistA digital "box set" brimming with Techno Wizard epicness! Includes the first three books in The Epic Adventures of the Techno Wizard series: Passage to Avalon, The Uncharted Lands, and The Vacant Realm. Fans of Fablehaven and Harry Potter will love this modern spin on fantasy with the "hilariously epic journey" (Readers' Favorite) of a boy stuck in a magical land who can still post about his adventures on social media and YouTube!Thirteen-year-old Sam Shelton is the only person in Avalon who can't use the magical power of aether. He's also the only person in Avalon with a bag of high-tech spy gear, a solar-powered cell phone with intermittent signal back to Earth, a YouTube account, and a murderous wizard-emperor on his tail...so he's got a lot going for him. When an earthquake hits his hometown of Bozeman, Montana, Sam gets inexplicably transported to Avalon, a strange world in which aether defines all aspects of life: the rich, the poor, the weak, the powerful, the oppressed, and the oppressors. Sam soon discovers that not only is he immune to aether's magical effects, but that he possesses the rare ability to destroy the stuff on contact. This phenomenon poses something of a major concern for the Emperor of Avalon, a tyrant who has dedicated his life to amassing more aether than all his subjects combined. While trying to find a way back home, Sam learns that his best hope lies with meeting the emperor head on, and draining the tyrant of his power. To do that, Sam will need to band together with a medieval cowboy, a young aether prodigy, and a curious dryad, all while using his whole bag of technological tricks...and posting about it on social media, of course.In Passage to Avalon, Mike Thayer takes a humorous, action-packed, and modern spin on the portal fantasy genre in the first book of The Epic Adventures of the Techno Wizard, a series that combines magical fantasy with near future technology and social media.