Books with author Steven Crossland

In the second book of the Knight series, Dean Knight tries to cope with his serious injury and mental illness which leaves him confused and with most of his memory gone. The dark secrets of his and his family's past torment him as much as the voices that he hears and the visions of his dead father and sister which pop up during the times when he is least likely able to deal with them effectively. He finds himself torn among three girls that seem to like him. One of them wants to use his talents for her own gain, another one represents a past he would just as soon forget, and the final one has her own mental problems to deal with. Even with his mental illness, Dean manages to resume a somewhat normal existence, but it doesn't last long when the jock who caused his twin sister's death enters back into Dean's life. Can a team of mental professionals, including a psychiatrist with his own unorthodox methods, save Dean once again before the stress in his life and the bullying he faces destroy him forever?

Dean knows being different isn’t always a good thing.Trapped by the voices and visits from the dead, Dean is drowning. His father, allegedly drowned, and the friend who took his own life taunt like the school bullies he can’t seem to get away from. A sliver of hope breaks through when his mother announces they are moving. A chance for a fresh start for all of them. So why does she move them to the cottage near the river his father drowned in? The water begins to envelop him, threatening to pull him under, when Dean discovers nothing changes and the bullies find not only him, but his twin sister, Dee, as favorite targets. Dean’s personal struggles worsen as his tentative grasp on reality weakens.An unexpected hand plunges through the water toward him, bringing with it questions and a family secret that haunts them all.

The woods near Bryan Stewart’s house have a long history of evil. When he was 14, he became a victim of it. Police found him semiconscious, a large amount of LSD in his system, lying on a path close to the heart of the woods. When he recovered, he could remember nothing about his ordeal except that something had changed him forever.Not long afterward, Bryan tried to kill himself. What makes a 14-year-old boy so depressed he doesn’t want to live? His parents think he has a mental illness; the townspeople just think he’s an evil, drug-crazed thug, and Bryan has no idea what happened. He only knows it all began the night of his ordeal, the night he has blocked out of his mind. After he meets two girls his own age: a beautiful, almost pagan-like, dark-haired girl, and a devoted Christian who constantly challenges him on his own faith, Bryan begins to remember what happened to him when he was 14. Even more frightening than the memories, is the realization that the evil is returning and wants Bryan again. He must choose the correct path, the one that will lead him safely through the dark woods. If he chooses the wrong path, innocent people will die in ways that are unimaginable.

Dean knows being different isn’t always a good thing.Trapped by the voices and visits from the dead, Dean is drowning. His father, allegedly drowned, and the friend who took his own life taunt like the school bullies he can’t seem to get away from. A sliver of hope breaks through when his mother announces they are moving. A chance for a fresh start for all of them. So why does she move them to the cottage near the river his father drowned in? The water begins to envelop him, threatening to pull him under, when Dean discovers nothing changes and the bullies find not only him, but his twin sister, Dee, as favorite targets. Dean’s personal struggles worsen as his tentative grasp on reality weakens.An unexpected hand plunges through the water toward him, bringing with it questions and a family secret that haunts them all.

Louise was too busy skipping along to hear her friends buzzing around her shouting. ""Look out Louise, stop, stop please!"" until it was too late. Louise was stuck, stuck up to her knees, in a puddle full of sticky, ooey gooey, runny honey. One day, Louise goes to visit her friends the Busy Buzzy Honey Bees, but there's a hole in their hive and - oh no! She gets stuck in a puddle of honey! How will she ever be able to get out of the puddle? With the help of all her friends, including Old Scruff, a cat named Burmese who catches a sneeze, and the Easter Bunny, Louise just might be able to escape!

In the small muddy town of Sludge Hollow, Miss McNaught is the only school teacher. Her lessons are of acceptance, she teaches the children to look beyond a person's physical appearance and see their true beauty. One day, the Queen of Sludge Hollow visits the muddy town. "Her finger nails were painted pink and she wore rings on her fingers that glittered and winked...she was most certainly the cleanest person the people ever seen." The Queen acts arrogantly superior towards the muddy people of the town until, "her gumboot stayed stuck, stuck in the muddy muck of Sludge Hollow." It is then that the Queen graciously realises the wisdom of Miss McNaught's lessons.

In this hilarious middle grade novel, Walt Michaels who is out in left field more often than not both literally and physically, must survive the last few months of sixth grade, a job that becomes even more difficult when he unexpectedly falls in love. This romance begins oddly enough when he hits a line drive off Rhonda Regen's forehead. Next, thing you know, he's committed to going to the spring formal with her, but this is the least of his worries because the biggest bully in school has challenged Walt and his fellow Weenies to a grudge softball match. Walt's friends came together after a disastrous in-class presentation that attempted to explore the story of westward expansion, but which, instead gave Walt the most embarrassing moment of his life. The dragon lady, his teacher, and Dr. Death, the principal, will be the end of Walt yet, but if he can just hang on, then maybe things can work out. This book is dedicated to everybody who dreams and everyone who has survived middle school.

Louise was too busy skipping along to hear her friends buzzing around her shouting. "Look out Louise, stop, stop please!" until it was too late. Louise was stuck, stuck up to her knees, in a puddle full of sticky, ooey gooey, runny honey. One day, Louise goes to visit her friends the Busy Buzzy Honey Bees, but there's a hole in their hive and - oh no! She gets stuck in a puddle of honey! How will she ever be able to get out of the puddle? With the help of all her friends, including Old Scruff, a cat named Burmese who catches a sneeze, and the Easter Bunny, Louise just might be abel to escape!