Books with author john thompson

This is a story for ESL students overseas. It is to be read by advanced students, but it is divided up into sections. It can be read one section per week if the students don't have much time. It is about a boy that writes a story to raise money to help his friends family. His friend moves to NY from PA, but will move back before the fall. Both boys are only ten years old in the story, from the present day.

Lisa, a 3rd Grader, is sad. Her school is closing. She wants to do something to keep the memory of her school alive. Her mother, who is the Vice-President of the PTA, (Parent's -Teacher's Association). They get many parents to put on a bake sale to raise money to help out a Children's room at a library. The money they raise through what becomes more than a bake sale, changes the Children's room. It gets improvements that are two decades overdue. At the end of the book, three words on a plaque on the wall of the Children's room at the library shows Lisa that she did a good thing.This book is for younger readers (2nd to 4th grade). They might need help to understand some of the words. It was written to show girls that they can make a difference in this world.If you like the story, please comment on it. Thank you.

Byeong, an 8th grader in a private school in Korea is given a chance to get his dead twin back. He finds out that changing the past could be dangerous. The boy that gave him the chance goes back and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save Byeong's brother, knowing that he will see Byeong and Yeong again, but it will a different version of themselves. At the end of the story you come to find that the boy that went back in time had written it as a story, but you're not sure what was real and what was fiction.

Two boys come to stay at a youth home where there is already a 12 year old girl Chris (also 12) and his younger brother called Cap (age 8) all the children have secrets, and hidden pain. Cap doesn't talk for awhile because of physical abuse. He only speaks when his brother gets sick. He is taken to the hospital and the sexual abuse from his mother's live in boyfriend comes to light. He is tested for HIV (negative). The children go exploring in the woods, and find a treasure that will help their new "mom" Ms. Lee, save the home where they live. 10 years later Chris and Beth will get married. (7000 + words)

This is a short story for teachers of English as a Second Language. It is about a teenager named Kevin that is given the chance to go back in time for one hour. While he is in the past he can help his grandfather out, and affect his grandfather's future. The story would take many days, depending on the reading skills of the students in class. (I thought of the idea for students in countries like Korea and Japan, where stories with characters their ages, written on an easy level, can be tough to find).After the story there are discussion questions. If you could change the past, should you? It is for an ESL classroom. It is written on a level that American children that know English already would find to easy.

Young Kim, a 13 year old from North Carolina, gets the chance to travel in time one summer day. He meets his future self, along with his future son and wife. He is witnessed to by his son about sin, salvation, and the Saving Grace of Jesus.When attending a revival service, he sees his future self get shot on stage. He wakes up back in the woods where he disappeared from, and wonders if it had been a real trip or just a dream.When he grows up, things seem to happen just as they did the first time, or nearly like they had. He is a minister and his younger self comes for a visit. Will he die in the revised future or will he live?

Abbey and her best friend, Bee, set out to solve another mystery with its roots deep in Southern history in this follow-up to J. E. Thompson's The Girl from Felony Bay. For the first time in a long time, things are looking up for Abbey Force. She lives on Reward Plantation with Bee, and her father has just recovered from his coma. But then their neighbor's dog, Yemassee, is kidnapped, and they are the only witnesses. They decide it's their job to find the men who took him.This dognapping, though, will lead Abbey and Bee into something much deeper. And before they're through, the girls will once again have to dig through the hidden history of their South Carolina home in order to set things right.

The Girl from Felony Bay is a fresh, vibrant, funny, and heartwarming debut in the vein of Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky and Clare Vanderpool's Moon over Manifest. Set on a southern plantation, it's about a young girl named Abbey, her best friend, Bee, and a hundred-year-old mystery.The last year has been a rough one for Abbey Force. Her father has been in a coma since his accident, in which he was framed for a terrible crime he didn't commit. And their home, Reward Plantation, had to be sold to pay off his debt to society. So Abbey is stuck living with her Uncle Charlie, who isn't exactly an ideal role model. But things just got more interesting. The new family who moved in to Reward Plantation has a daughter named Bee, and she's just as curious as Abbey is about the No Trespassing signs and holes being dug out of Felony Bay. It seems like someone has been poking around a mystery that dates all the way back to the Civil War—and it just might be the same someone who framed Abbey's father.

The book is about two young boys that are twins and their mom and dad were killed in a battle. Their mom and dad were in a big fight with powerful villains. Before their mom died, she said “you have all the powers in the world; learn how to control your special powers”. The twins now live with their aunt and uncle. They know the twins have super powers.

This is a short story about three teenagers. Joon Soo, Jung, and Susan. They are linked in ways they would never guess at first. Two of them have lived a couple of times, changing their history so changing their destinies. They are meant for each other, and the third is their future. When they find out that they are destined to be married one day, they don't know if that is what they truly want. They are to fight a coming darkness the US will go through in the future. It will be up to the three of them, but they have to pass Summer School first.This is the first of a series of five short stories.10,000+ words