Books with author Robert Elmer

Book one in a series of 6 books.It’s a long way back to Normal…Austin and Ashley Webster are normal 12-year-old kids, living in Normal, Illinois. But things get very abnormal when an odd digital camera transports them into the wild, wild world of the Internet.Soon they hop from website to website, searching for their Aunt Jessica’s lost prize-winning beagle, Applet. From the Titanic to the apostle Paul’s shipwreck, they’re really there!But things get really wired when they run into the mysterious Mattie Blankenskrean, who’s trying to wipe out sites she doesn’t like. And she’s not going to let the kids get in her way. Can Austin and Ashley find Applet and make their way back to Normal—before Ms. B reprograms the truth?

Beetle Bunker, book 2 in the Wall Trilogy series, takes young readers and history buffs to Berlin, Germany in 1961. In Beetle Bunker Sabine lives in East Berlin in 1961, where neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and sometimes people disappear in the middle of the night … to the west side of the Berlin Wall. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she first uses it to escape her crowded home then thinks of a new use for the bunker. Could it take her family under the Wall to freedom?Beetle Bunker:Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the second book in the Wall Trilogy series

Everybody knows you should love your neighbor and help those in need, but does that apply when you're in the middle of the biggest race of the year? That's what the ASTROKIDS find out in this book from Robert Elmer. It's time for the spacepod race and the ASTROKIDS are determined to win. Boys against girls sounded like such a good idea--and each side was convinced they'd beat the other. But when unexpected problems force them to work together or not compete, will they be able to put aside their differences?

Book 2 in the series of 6 booksThanks to a very weird digital camera, 12-year-olds Austin and Ashley Webster from Normal, Illinois, are still stuck inside the Internet. They meet cyber-people, chase their aunt’s dog Applet… and try to keep the mysterious Mattie Blankenskrean from erasing the truth!But telling the truth can be tough, especially when it’s easier to fudge the facts just a little. Even so, with Ms. B’s tablet computer—the one she uses to wipe out the Web—maybe they can get home, after all.Or not. Because Ms. B will do anything to get her computer back. And don’t look now, but she’s right behind them!

Beetle Bunker, book 2 in the Wall Trilogy series, takes young readers and history buffs to Berlin, Germany in 1961. In Beetle Bunker Sabine lives in East Berlin in 1961, where neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and sometimes people disappear in the middle of the night … to the west side of the Berlin Wall. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she first uses it to escape her crowded home then thinks of a new use for the bunker. Could it take her family under the Wall to freedom?Beetle Bunker:Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the second book in the Wall Trilogy series

With historic events swirling around her in the city of West Berlin in 1989, Liesl looks for the truth about family in Smuggler’s Treasure, book 3 in the Wall Trilogy series.In Smuggler’s Treasure, life is good for Liesl in West Germany in 1989. As Liesl works on a class project about the history of the Berlin Wall, she stumbles onto a startling secret no one will talk about. Will she ever learn the whole story about her family and what happened after the building of the Berlin Wall?Smuggler’s Treasure:Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the first book in the Wall Trilogy series

With historic events swirling around her in the city of West Berlin in 1989, Liesl looks for the truth about family in Smuggler’s Treasure, book 3 in the Wall Trilogy series.In Smuggler’s Treasure, life is good for Liesl in West Germany in 1989. As Liesl works on a class project about the history of the Berlin Wall, she stumbles onto a startling secret no one will talk about. Will she ever learn the whole story about her family and what happened after the building of the Berlin Wall?Smuggler’s Treasure:Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the first book in the Wall Trilogy series

Thirteen-year-old Patrick McWaid and his entire family must rush to raise his grandfather's paddle steamer from the river bottom, repair her and deliver her to her new half owner or his grandfather will lose his remaining half ownership. Along the way they face adventures typical of Australia in the 1860s.In Australia in the 1860s, thirteen-year-old Patrick McWaid and his family rush to raise his grandfather's paddle steamer from the river bottom, repair her, and deliver her to her new half owner before his grandfather loses his remaining half ownership

Book 4 in a series of 6 booksTaking junk e-mail to a whole new level…At first it was fun! Now Austin Webster and his new friend Drew run into more trouble than they bargained for after jumping inside the World Wide Web. They’re hiding from the dodgy Mr. Z, a strange substitute teacher who wants to wipe out truth on the Internet. But as the boys learn about the power of words, they’re swept from site to site by a whirlwind of spam.Back home in Normal, Illinois, Austin’s sister Ashley and her Aunt Jessica do their best to mount a rescue. But they have their own menace to battle—a real tornado! Will the Websters survive both monster storms… and keep from being deleted?

This is the story of Oriannon, a very human-looking girl with an extraordinary gift: the ability to record what she sees and experiences like the hard drive of a computer. When the mysterious Jesmet, thought to be a Magician in the Old Order, begins to connect with Oriannon, he is banished to Corista’s Shadowside. On another planet, the new faith of its first Believers is tested in the shadow of evilIn book two, readers can contemplate how biblical truths translate in another world. The planet of Corista has been thrown off its axis, and the bright side has been plunged into perpetual darkness. Are the Owling people of Shadowside to blame? With both sides of the planet in chaos, the world becomes even more confusing for 15-year-old Oriannon when her former music mentor Jesmet miraculously returns from the dead and promises his followers a special power called the Wind. But his is not the only offer of hope. Sola, Corista’s charismatic head of Security, proposes the “ultimate solution” for peace, and she recruits Oriannon to help her carry out a seemingly perfect plan. But Oriannon’s closest friends are skeptical and try to convince her that the plan involves evil acts against the Owling. Should Oriannon trust the feelings of her friends? Will she embrace Sola’s solution as the answer to the world’s dilemma? Or will she believe the promise of an Owling holy man before she can no longer discern between light and darkness?

What would it be like if Jesus had come to another planet?Oriannon is living the good life on the bright side of Corista, a small planet circling three suns. But things get crazy for the teen when a new music teacher arrives at her school with strange songs and even stranger ideas. Soon Oriannon is pressured to spy on her teacher, Jesmet, by using her powers to record everything she sees and hears.Could Jesmet really be a faithbreaker, like Oriannon's friend Margus says? She's not so sure, but her life is turned upside-down when she loses her way on the dark side of the planet and is taken in by an odd, cliff-dwelling people. And when her new friends face a deadly threat, can the once self-centered Oriannon follow her heart. . . and save half the planet?Program Summary Field:Those who live in lush comfort on the bright side of the small planet Corista have plundered the water resources of Shadowside for centuries, ignoring the existence of Shadowside’s inhabitants, who are nothing more than animals. Or so the Brightsiders have been taught. It will take a special young woman to expose the truth—and to help avert the war that is sure to follow.