Books with author Sam J. Miller

Sarah Fletcher is a nine-year-old student at Euclid Elementary School. She is like most girls; she likes going to the mall, hanging out with her friends, and listening to music. Sarah had no idea that a surprise gift from her uncle John was about to change her life. The Geodes are geometric super heroes from the twelfth dimension and accidentally became trapped on Earth while conducting scientific experiments. With Sarah's big surprise and the arrival of the Geodes, it was going to be an interesting school year. The story of Sarah and the Geodes teaches that mathematics can be fun and has many practical applications. Through the Geodes, the story shows examples of everyday objects that are actually shaped like geometric solids. Sarah and the Geodes also teaches valuable life lessons such as crime doesn't pay; honesty is the best policy, and the importance of teamwork and planning.

The picture-perfect town of Glady hides a dangerous secret. On her first Sunday at Countryside Church, Rose meets a blue-haired boy named Jason who warns her that things are not what they seem. As she investigates, Rose gradually uncovers the truth, but doing so puts her in the middle of a terrifying spiritual battle for the fate of the church and the whole town. For there are some strongholds that are not easily uprooted.

The summer of 1973 in Jasper, Alabama, resumes for Tamika, Tory, and Douggie as the trio become wrapped up in the daily activities planned by Aunt Fran, and Grandma and Grandpa Stokes. Their interactions with Big Momma and the spirited ghost of their great-great grandmother, Sally B. Lipscomb, affectionately known as G’Momma, merely intensify their summer adventure. While innocently focusing on their desire to have fun, the trio is quickly forced to confront challenges in love. Tamika has never had to deal with a person who dislikes her without cause until Angie Dripp. Tory has never experienced feelings for a girl as he does Mary Lou Lane, and Douggie is faced with convincing others that although his friend Randolph Hines is “special” he is “normal.” Together G’Momma and Big Momma are obliged to teach the trio that there is much to learn about love. Through the wisdom of the elders and by way of G’Momma’s time travel, Tamika, Tory, Douggie and Big Momma explore the plight of the African American nurse and the meaning of love.

The trip south to Jasper, Alabama, for the Lipscomb-Gray Family Reunion is one that the Johnson’s look forward to each year. For Bernice and Leonard it symbolizes family, renewed spirituality, and homecoming. For eleven-year-old Tamika and her younger brother Douglas, it means the official start to summer. Six weeks of endless fun and adventure “down home” with Grandma and Grandpa Stokes, Big Momma, Aunt Fran, and their thirteen-year-old cousin Tory. This holds true the summer of 1973 as the trio experience the journey of a lifetime by way of time travel into the darkest period in African American history as slaves. Together they plan their risky escape with Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad from the beginning to their deliverance to freedom in Canada.