Books with author R.H. Charles

When a baby hippopotamus is born green, rather than with the usual pink skin color, her parents and the other hippos are surprised, but not concerned. As time passes and the little green hippopotamus remains a pretty avocado green...the trouble begins. Green hippo hide is just way too different for the old bully Harold Hippo to ignore. From his prejudiced perspective, he poisons the views of all the other hippos until no hippo wants anything to do with Avocado or her parents. It isn't until hippopotamus hunters burst on the scene with guns blazing that the other hippos learn that the only way they can be saved...is by working together. A journey that begins with the end of innocence for a bunch of little hippo companions, continues as Avocado and her friends show leadership and courage, and ends with all the hippos learning the valuable lesson...that the color of one's skin is the least of our worries in life.

Starting a new life after the death of her mother, Nora learns how to be strong. Are there wounds too deep to heal, pains too sharp to share? And if a family survives by cutting the ties that bind them, can they ever be whole again? After losing her mother to illness and her father to his work, Nora Mackenzie must leave her home in the interior of B.C. for a North Vancouver school. Estranged from her classmates, her family, and the life she’s lost, Nora walls herself off from the people around her. At the same time, her young cousin Lizzie is facing an uncertain future as one of the first children to undergo open-heart surgery. As the operation approaches, Nora discovers that she is not the only person in her family isolated by fear and grief.

When you go to sleep, what do you dream about? Do you have adventures? Do you have nightmares? Or do your dreams mainly consist of the average everyday events that make up your normal life? Thirteen year-old Liana Savard used to have every type of dream imaginable, until one night when her dreams became a little bit too real.After moving to a new city in a new country, Liana tries to make the best of it. Only a night after her arrival into the new city, Liana falls asleep and then awakens on a completely differnt planet, Echo -- where she soon finds out shes in charge of a kingdom, as their queen. To make matters more interesting, every time she goes to sleep on Echo, she awakens on Earth, where shes just a normal teenage girl that still has to go to school! On Earth, she also meets Conner Rivers, who recently moved into the house next door only a few months before her own arrival. And as shell soon discover, hes not your average teenage boy.In his first book in The Echo Kingdom Chronicles series, C.D. Charles has crafted an adventure that will satisfy your imaginative thirst, capture your heart, and tickle your funny bone.

Will Lane’s mother had just shared with him some exciting and yet disturbing news. He was going to be spending the summer with his grandparents. He loved to visit his grandparents, but he had never spent even one night with them. They lived 40 miles from him out in the country on a farm. Will had spent all nine years of his life right in the middle of the city. He did not know, and didn’t want to know anything about the farm. He loved his grandparents, but he was quite sure there was nothing for him to do on the farm. He was well aware that his grandparents did not even have cable television or the internet. He wondered if one could die from boredom.Will, however was about to have all the excitement he could handle. His summer and his life would change, because of a WILD RED PONY!