Books with author V. McKinnon

A coming-of-age ritual forces five young friends to leave their hidden city and embark into the warring realms of men. Struggling against their fears and their fates, they will have to learn how to survive among humans when they're not quite human themselves.The Daughters of the Coven, the Clansman of Moera, and the night-walking upyre have lived isolated in the haven city of Dibar for centuries. When a young which comes of age however, she must prove her independence by setting out into the world on her Venex. Sisters Bellanque and Devona are ready to take their test, but when a prophecy predicts their doom their childhood friends decide that they'd rather defy tradition than risk the witches lives.Macadimus, an exiled Clansman, and Jeroth, the errant son of an upyre lord travel after the two as they explore the world outside of their valley only to find that they may be falling into the prophecy after all.

In a city known as Windy Fields, there lives a little boy named Ronald Thunderpants. Ronald looks like any other boy out there, with a thick brown hair and pair of sparkly green eyes.But Ronald is rather mischievous, some would say the most mischievous little boy there ever was, Ronald was always playing jokes with other people…Very, very smelly jokes!Ronald is also different from other people. He can’t smell anything, even his own horrible farts but how he laughs at the noise and the rumble! And because of that, he loves farting. Ronald farts a lot.Of course, other people do not like Ronald’s farts, because they smell horrid! But Ronald loves farting because it seems funny to him. It makes people go away. It also gets Ronald out of trouble. And because he farts a lot, some people call him Ronald Farter.Ronald is very naughty and uses farting to get out of trouble.He farts so that he will not have to answer Mr. Greene’s Math question. He is afraid that Mr. Greene might fail him in class. So instead of answering the questions wrong, he would just fart.He farts so that he will not have to sing in Mrs. Merrick’s Music class. He hates the songs that they always sing in Music class. So instead of singing the song he hates, he just farts.He farts so that the line in the school canteen will be cleared. He does this so he can get ahead of these people.He is extremely naughty whenever Mom makes him eat vegetables, a quick smelly fart will get Ronald out of that. He farts to make fun of other people.But what if Ronald gets into serious trouble because of farting? What will he do? Will Ronald fart forever? Will Ronald’s farts save him or not?Find out what will happen to Ronald! Follow The Adventures of Ronald Thunderpants! You'll be in fits of giggles with Ronald Thunderpants. This book is definitely suitable for kids ages 6 and up.

Anyone who has gone through high school will tell you that it is only after you have left, that you can actually look at it as a wonderful time in your life. While you are there, you are mostly just trying to survive it. High school is the beginning of a person making their life choices. Everyone in life must make and live with their decisions… Teenage Scarlett is no different than anyone else. While she struggles with becoming the kind of woman she wants to be when she reaches adulthood; she deals with such pitfalls as falling in love, heartache, and dangerous obstacles that threaten her life in every possible way. Will good friends, finding love, and her bravery be enough to come out on top? Only time will tell...

Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna. She lives with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She is a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus. Tawny finally got her new bicycle. It's pink and white with squiggly lines and a banana seat, and it's the bestest one. She wanted that bike and she wanted to ride it right away. Daddy has to put the training wheels on it so that she won't tip over because she's not ready for the two wheels yet. Everybody saw it and said that it was a nice bike. Tawny wanted to ride it as soon as she got home. Only Momma said she has to wait till after dinner.

These stories are accounts of the adventures of young boys growing up in the 1940's. Summers were spent on Dry Creek fishing, swimming, camping-out and generally exploring the surrounding woods. It was a time when parents didn't worry about their kids and the boys had long days of almost complete freedom. A group of four boys had adventures dealing with an escaped convect, encountering racial segregation, waging a conflict with new boys that moved into the area and solving a murder. Through these events the boys were gaining maturity and learning much about life and morals that served them well in later years.