Books with author Rod Allen

Every player wants to win…every high school wants to root for a winning teamWill the new coach for the girls’ basketball team change Riverbrook High’s losing reputation? Coach Olivia Remmington chooses five starters to lead the racially-diverse team to victory. Her selections shock many. The starters are wheels-for-feet Chase; out-think-other team Marley; play-like-a-boy Tequila; three-pointer Selena; and dazzle-dribbler Bailey. Their team mates have formidable basketball skills. But will it make difference when their personal lives can be a TV series or Lifetime movie?They love basketball, but the girls have more than the challenges of high-pressure games. They cope with family, dating, romance, grades, peer pressure and more…haters, frienemies, non-supportive parents and other distractions.The coach uses the motto “Expect the unexpected” to mentally prepare the team for games. The motto mysteriously applies to the players’ personal lives as each player most cope with unexpected events in their personal lives that happen during the basketball season.Robin Allen has interwoven characters and events in this realistic portrayal of teen girls who play high school sports.This riveting teen saga crackles with the heat of an intense basketball game and teen-age girls whose lives ignite with passion, persistence and fierceness. Once the season begins, there is no turning back…

Video games. Homework. Chores. Putting up with a younger sister. More video games. Monsters. Pirates. A secret treasure.Wait a minute - what was that? Where did monsters and pirates come from? In THE PIRATE’S GAME, 11-year-old Dylan has always figured that the sounds made by the monster in his closet were just a figment of his imagination. After all, when he woke up his Dad at night to make him check the closet, the monster was never there. So he and Maggie, his younger sister, are totally surprised one day when the monster (named “Pete” by Maggie) not only comes out of the closet but turns out to be as big a fan of video games as Dylan is. The only difference is that while Dylan plays his games in front of the television, the monster can actually go inside the video game he’s playing, to become a part of the action. And while playing Dylan’s “Pieces Of Eight” pirate game, Pete’s gotten stuck on a difficult level and needs help. The only way Dylan and Maggie can get Pete out of their room is to go with him—into the closet, and into the game, and try to finish it for him.They discover it’s easier to get into the game than to get out, and once they’re a part of it, the game itself begins to change until it’s no longer as simple as finding treasure chests or dueling with evil pirates. In fact, it can be hard sometimes figuring out who is an evil pirate, and who isn’t. In the course of their gaming adventure they learn a few things, like how to navigate at night by the stars, how not to look like a seal when a shark’s trying to eat you, and what can happen when you set fire to a can of WD-40 on a pirate ship. But they also learn how much they care about each other and how you sometimes have to make sacrifices to do what’s right – even if that’s tough to do when you’re having sword-fights with skeletons and escaping from pirate ships.

Every player wants to win…every high school wants to root for a winning team Will the new coach for the girls’ basketball team change Riverbrook High’s losing reputation? Coach Olivia Remmington chooses five starters to lead the racially-diverse team to victory. Her selections shock many. The starters are wheels-for-feet Chase; out-think-other team Marley; play-like-a-boy Tequila; three-pointer Selena; and dazzle-dribbler Bailey. Their team mates have formidable basketball skills. But will it make difference when their personal lives can be a TV series or Lifetime movie? They love basketball, but the girls have more than the challenges of high-pressure games. They cope with family, dating, romance, grades, peer pressure and more…haters, frienemies, non-supportive parents and other distractions. The coach uses the motto “Expect the unexpected” to mentally prepare the team for games. The motto mysteriously applies to the players’ personal lives as each player most cope with unexpected events in their personal lives that happen during the basketball season. Robin Allen has interwoven characters and events in this realistic portrayal of teen girls who play high school sports. This riveting teen saga crackles with the heat of an intense basketball game and teen-age girls whose lives ignite with passion, persistence and fierceness. Once the season begins, there is no turning back…

Jamie Grey grew up tossed around between foster homes. At an early age he shut the world out, deciding he wouldn’t care. Whatever life had to throw at him, he would look the other way. Now his senior year is about to start and he’s been forced into yet another new home. This will be the last time, he assures himself. When an unexpected curveball comes his way in the form of a certain stubborn seventeen year old girl, Jamie soon finds out that life doesn’t always work out the way you plan it. Beckett Chase has been entitled her entire life. Living in the plush landscape of Palm Beach, Florida, she’s never wanted for anything. She’s always taken what and who she wants with no remorse. When she sets her sights on Jamie Grey and she’s met with rejection, her descent from the top begins. With a twist of events causing Jamie and Beckett’s worlds to collide, will they be able to put aside their differences or will fate intervene offering an entirely different option?