Books with author WILLIAM D. BURT

What are the mysterious lights flitting above Oswego Lake on moonlit nights? Marsh gas? Ball lightning? Or holdovers from the dawn of Creation? When Jonathan Oliver makes it his homeschool project to track down the source of the Lake Lights, his search leads him to Iron Mountain’s abandoned Prosser mine and its prehistoric secrets.After his brilliant father, Matthew Oliver, goes missing, Jon is left to decode a cryptic message leading to a remarkable invention. With his grandfather’s help, Jon tries to outwit his father’s former business partner, who will stop at nothing to steal the device and sell it to a shadowy criminal organization. Jon’s dual discoveries not only help him deliver his city from total annihilation but also ultimately rock the scientific world to its foundations.The Lake Lights is the first title in William D. Burt’s new Creation Seekers series.

Behind the Scenes of NASCAR Racing lifts the curtain on America's fastest-growing spectator sport. Author Bill Burt updates his 1997 best-seller and zeroes in on the processes that bring the show to the tracks and to the fans. Learn all about the ever-changing rules, aerodynamic advances, new tracks, and the sweeping current of high-tech engineering that have transported the sport from shade-tree wrench-turning to the computer age. Meet the behind-the-scenes people who make it all happen, learn how the cars are built, understand the complex operations in the garage, and experience the dramatic lead-up to race morning. Behind the Scenes takes the reader, in detail, from sponsor dollars to checkered flag, NASCAR-style. New edition.

Saint Joan of Arc was born a poor country girl but became a great heroine who saved France from invasion. When she was still a teenager, the entire French Army followed her into battle because they could see God was on her side. Although she lived 600 years ago, she shows us even today what the power of God can do. Joan of Arc is the patroness of France. This is her story.

Queen Victoria ruled over the British Empire for most of the 1800s, during the height of Britain’s power and wealth. She became queen at a young age and had the longest reign in British history. Victoria was a good wife and mother, raising nine children. She was beloved by her subjects and became a symbol of Britain’s values and its greatness. This is her story.

Casimir Pulaski learned to fight as a boy and spent his whole life fighting. He led a great revolt to free Poland from the Russian Empire. He moved to America to help George Washington with his struggle against the British Empire. He died a hero in the Revolutionary War. He was a true freedom fighter willing to fight to make all people free. This is his story.

Jonny, along with his Siamese cat, Mister E, discovers a magical icon on his Nexus 7 tablet, an icon that when opened, allows them to time travel into the future. The Atlanta they arrive in is nothing like the one they left. It is a city made of glass because hundreds of years of drought have caused all growing things to die. All oil is gone so there are no plastic products. All mining has been depleted so there is no metal. Only sand is left out of which glass is produced and used for houses, furniture, toys, and flying cars. Mister E, strangely, has been transformed by time travel into a huge cat the size of a lion and can speak. Jonny and Mister E rescue Cindi, a young girl running from her mean stepfather. Adventure after adventure follow as the three of them try to escape mutated outlanders, her angry father, and the hated pet police before making a lifesaving time jump to ....