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Follow the Star
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Publishers, April 1, 1997)In 1945 in Denmark, thirteen-year-old brother and sister Peter and Elise try to help their Jewish friend Henrik when his mother and a friend of hers are arrested by the Russians and accused of being spies
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Into the Flames
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Feb. 1, 1995)Their work delivering newspapers for the Danish underground lands twins Peter and Elise in a Nazi prison where they experience firsthand the importance of faith.
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Captive at Kangaroo Springs
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Publishers, Aug. 1, 1997)In Australia, having settled with their family in a kind but mysterious riverboat captain's shantyhouse, twelve-year-old Patrick and his older sister Becky are captured by bushrangers
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The Cosmic Camp Caper
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Oct. 1, 2001)While the gang from CLEO-7 imagines roasting marshmallows over miniature volcanoes and practicing laser archery, Camp Little Dipper proves to be something else entirely.
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Candy Bombers
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Zonderkidz, Aug. 27, 2006)Candy Bombers, book 1 in the Wall Trilogy series, follows cousins Erich and Katarina as they struggle to survive in a city still devastated by World War II.Candy Bombers takes readers to Berlin, Germany in the spring of 1948. Teenage cousins Erich and Katarina are just trying to survive Soviet isolation and starvation when they see that Americans have food. Erich sneaks inside a U.S. cargo plane where he is caught by a sympathetic American sergeant who tries to befriend him. Though Erich has plenty of reasons to resent this man, in the end he must decide—should he cling to bitterness or learn to forgive?Candy Bombers:Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the first book in the Wall Trilogy series
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Escape to Murray River
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 2, 2017)Book 1 in a series of 8 Alone in a wild land, thousands of miles from home… Twelve-year-old Patrick McWaid’s world is turned upside down when his father is framed for a crime and sent on the last prison ship to Australia in 1867. Desperate to keep his family together, the McWaids decide to find passage on another ship headed “down under.” But leaving Dublin, Ireland, means leaving the only home they’ve ever known. And what will they do when they reach Australia? Then Patrick learns his grandfather was sent to Australia thirty years earlier. No one has head from him in years, but perhaps the senior McWaid might help them—if only they can find him. Their hopes high, Patrick and his family set sail. What kind of new life will they find?
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Far from the Storm
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Aug. 1, 1995)After World War II, Peter and Elise seek to discover who is trying to destroy Uncle Morten for his work with the Danish Underground.
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Touch the Sky
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, June 1, 1997)In Denmark in 1946, thirteen-year-old Peter, his twin sister Elise, and their friend Henrik find themselves involved in a sinister plot to keep a group of Jews from reaching what they hope will become their new homeland in Eretz Israel
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Chasing the Wind
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Feb. 1, 1996)Just after the surrender of Germany in World War II, three Danish children are trapped aboard a renegade German submarine attempting to escape to South America with Nazi treasure
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Panic at Emu Flat
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Nov. 1, 1999)While helping his family operate a paddle steamer along the Murray River in Australia during the 1860s, thirteen-year-old Patrick gets into serious trouble because of his friend
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Firestorm at Kookaburra Station
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, March 1, 1999)During the drought-stricken year of 1869, Michael McWaid gets swept away by a hot-air balloon along with his brother Patrick, and the boys must make their way home in spite of dust storms and a devastating fire that nearly destroys the city of Wentworth,Australia.During the drought-stricken year of 1869, Michael McWaid gets swept away by a hot-air balloon along with his brother Patrick, and the boys must make their way home in spite of dust storms and a devastating fire that nearly destroys the city of Wentworth,Australia
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A Light in the Castle
Robert Elmer
Paperback (Bethany House Pub, Dec. 1, 1996)In 1945, while taking a train to Copenhagen to meet the King, Peter and Elise meet a man with a strange clocklike device and later have other strange adventures and encounters