Books with author Nathanael Read

Thirteen-year-old Caleb Weybourne is sent to spend the summer with his archaeologist father in the remote town of Chismo in northern Canada, where Professor Weybourne hopes to prove the existence of the Mahkneejosh, the legendary great lake monster of the native Ojibway people. In Chismo, Caleb befriends two Ojibway boys, Isaac and Eli, and a colourful old Ojibway man, Emmett. On a fishing trip to Red Marsh Lake, the boys encounter the violent and dangerous local fugitive, Kibo, and almost lose their lives. During their flight from him, Caleb believes he may have seen the mysterious water monster. In a dramatic showdown, Kibo forces Emmett and the boys into a cave where he dynamites the entrance, trapping them inside. Can they get out in time, or will they end their days as bones for a future excavation team to discover?

An accident has dramatically altered twelve-year-old Caleb Rupert's dad's personality and torn his family apart. A neurosurgeon, however, believes that surgery might restore his dad to his former self. Caleb must be removed from the scene for a few weeks and is sent to stay with Uncle Charlie, deep in the woods of northern Canada.Caleb barely arrives at his new home when he is met by three young people living nearby - tough-talking brothers, Pete and Ike, and Catfish, a no-nonsense girl with an incredibly sharp tongue.Caleb also discovers the fact that Uncle Charlie has been keeping a number of wolverines captive on the island. Caleb's attitude toward these forbidding creatures changes when late one night he manages to rescue a wolverine mother and her baby from a deadly trap.When Uncle Charlie decides to rid the island of the wolverines, Caleb knows he must act immediately to save them. Caleb and Catfish manage to help the wolverines escape from the island, but soon discover that their raft was sabotaged by Pete and Ike and they end up stranded at the edge of Catchewana Falls.

When Calvin McBride travels north to help his aunt run a resort, little does he suspect the adventures that await him.On an excursion down the Blanche River with Willis Hamilton, Joel's Ojibwa friend, the boys notice signs of human activity at the long-abandoned Baldwin Mine. Shubel Chase, an old hermit, living nearby, tells the boys he believes someone is dumping chemicals into the Baldwin mine. Later that night Shubel Chase interrupts prowlers at the Mine and is knocked unconscious.The boys soon discover the seriously injured hermit and rush him to the hospital. In the meantime Calvin's aunt is becoming increasingly discouraged by these events, and considers selling the resort.Adventure and misfortune continue to follow the boys when they are almost killed by an intentionally lit forest fire. It turns out that the key to this mystery lies with the old hermit, and the boys realize that it's only through what this man reveals that they are able to unravel the mystereous events taking place at the mine.

When thirteen year old Alex Gray is invited to spend Christmas in northern Ontario with his friend, Joel Flynn, he eagerly jumps at the opportunity. The holidays take an exciting turn when Joel receives a powerful new snowmobile for Christmas, and he decides to enter the incredible new machine in the upcoming Thunder Rally, a local snowmobile race. Christmas eve finds Alex and the Flynn family spending the evening with an older couple who live across the lake - Clarence and Agnes Sprague. Alex is then introduced to challenges that deal more with a spiritual nature.In the days following Christmas, Joel is injured in a snowmobile accident, and with great trepidation, Alex reluctantly agrees to replace his friend in the Thunder Rally.A number of themes are woven into Thunder Rally's storyline. Agnes Sprague teaches Alex the importance of finding one's proper perspective in life, while Johnson is constantly reminding him of the need to focus. Alex comes to realize that taken together, these lessons are crucial in determining what's truly important in life.