Books published by publisher Black Industries

When they come for him fourteen year old Adam Shepard knows they are led by the same shadowy organization who murdered his father. Chosen as a sacrifice to locate the source of unlimited power, the World Rift, Adam defies odds by surviving his thrust across parallel worlds. Awakening on a new world entirely, a fearsome power triggered within him, Adam must rally the other survivors to find a way home. Determined to bring his father’s killer to justice, Adam is the only one left to stand against them and their plan to break the World Rift, unleashing the evil chained beneath

In a world where cities float, airships sail the skies and mythical creatures are summoned in a pinch…Celes Vale is distinctly average. Living in the shadow of his talented cousin, his powerful aunt and uncle, Celes is resigned to his future of soot, factories and well, more soot.But on the night of his twelfth birthday everything changes. A blinding light, a whispered voice and in an instant Celes becomes the first ordinary child in all of history to develop magic, sending him on a fast track ticket to Gardarel, the greatest of the floating cities.Though some welcome Celes others want the dirt-ridden up-start off their city – preferably head first. Nowhere is this clearer than in beautiful and haughty Lady Ban and her sneering nephew Marcus Blackwood. But Blackwood, with his gang of goons and unimaginative one-liners, is soon the least of Celes’s problems.With a little magic and a lot of detective work, Celes unravels the dark truth behind Lady Ban’s prim, perfect smile – an alliance to the villainous Wardens and the masked man who leads them. But in his bid to expose Lady Ban, Celes unwittingly stumbles on to an even darker conspiracy – the complete destruction of Gardarel itself.

Involve your student in the process of learning to read by having him create his own book! Helping reinforce the concept of subject/verb, students will work on diagramming, spelling, comprehension, and reading. Each page includes a box in which students draw the featured sentence; a diagram of the subject/verb; and teacher/student dialogue to find the subject/verb. A list of simple sentences is included at the back. 20 page, paperback booklet. Part of the Spell to Write and Read (SWR) Curriculum.