Books published by publisher Living Books USA

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEDRAGONS, DANGER, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time.After rescuing Jewel from a heretic named Etham, the Travelers chase him to China. They wind up in the lair of Yu, the dragon, and are forced into an uneasy partnership with the beast. They will protect Yu during the upcoming dragon hunt in exchange for her help in finding Etham.Etham's trail leads to the royal court, where the heretics are already weaving their web around the thirteen-year-old boy destined to become Emperor of China. Zheng wants the dragon mound for his memorial; the heretics want it for another base from which to carry out their conquest of Earth.Kyl and Elok arrive to help the Travelers, but one of them soon disappears and the other is killed. The same dire fate threatens Matterhorn and his friends. Only a daring deception and quirky court jester give them any chance of survival.Dragon's Lair is book five in the Matterhorn the Brave series.Learn more at www.MatterhornTheBrave.com

Product Description:Raising Dragons is a contemporary fantasy novel, the first book in the best-selling Dragons in our Midst series. This story inspires young people to dig deep within to find their God-given strengths and use them to overcome any obstacle. It is both a hair-raising, modern-day adventure and a glimpse into another world a world of knights, dragons, and fair maidens.Plot Description:A boy learns of his dragon past; a girl has known of hers for years. They combine their faith, courage, and love to overcome evil, a slayer who seeks to bring an end to dragon heritage, forever.The kids at school call Billy Dragon Breath for good reason. His breath is bad! It isn't the normal, morning-mouth bad; it's the hot-as-fire, don't-you-dare-get-near-me bad. Trouble erupts when his hot breath sets off the fire sprinklers in the boy's restroom at school, and his parents learn that they've kept their secret for too long.Billy finally discovers the secret. His father was once a dragon! Now that's a piece of news a guy doesn't deal with every day! Billy feels betrayed, alien, lost. When the dragon slayer traps him on a cold mountaintop in West Virginia, Billy learns to battle with weapons of steel and spirit while relying on a power he doesn't understand, a power that helps him learn to trust again.Bonnie, an orphan, tries to find a home, someone to love her, even though she feels like a freak because of a body feature that she calls a deformity. But this unusual feature becomes a life-saving attribute as she discovers that her love for others and her faith in a creator hold the answers she's looking for.

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVEPITFALLS, KIDNAPPING, AND INSPIRATIONMatterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on the portals of earth that connect all realms of space and time. Jewel Heist, book four in the Matterhorn the Brave series, opens with the kidnapping of princess Jewel by a wraith from First realm. Matterhorn and the baron follow the ransom instructions to the Bermuda Triangle, and arrive just in time to make the lunch menu of a tiger shark. Sara the water nymph gets them safely to an island, which turns out to be the home of fierce cannibals.And that's only the beginning of their Caribbean troubles!With the help of a merboy Bin-dle, the Travelers locate a sunken portal that holds the key to many of the Triangle's mysteries. And when Nate the Great and Queen Bea unexpectedly show up, the action swings into high gear.A category-five hurricane ruins their first attempt to find Jewel. During their second try, the Queen is severely wounded. An their third, most daring effort, puts the entire planet is peril!Learn more at www.MatterhornTheBrave.com

From Stephen of Philadelphia. . .“I HAD JUST TURNED TWELVE, in the year of grace 1681, when my father took me to London...William Penn had become a Friend, or Quaker, and my father was also of the same faith. It had been made know to Penn that those Englishmen who wanted to make homes for themselves in America, where no man should be able to wrong them because of being Friends, could have land at the rate of forty shillings for an hundred acres.”Twelve-year old Stephen and his family travel from England with other Quakers in 1681 to help build Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. In the new land Stephen learns the trials and adventures of life on the frontier, including encounters with Indians.The purpose of the stories in the Colonial America Series is to show children the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in their books, while describing the daily life of those people who conquered the wilderness, whether for conscience sake or gain.

Join Ruth as she sails on the Arabella to the New World as part of the party that founds the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the Atlantic seaboard. Here she encounters Pequot Indians, famine, school in a new land and the everyday chores that make life possible. Through it all Ruth discovers what it means to live, learn and grow into a women in a sometimes hostile world. Also in the Colonial America Series by James Otis Richard of Jamestown Ruth of Boston Peter of New Amsterdam Stephen of Philadelphia Calvert of Maryland

From Mary of Plymouth…“MY NAME IS MARY, and I am setting down all these things about our people here in this new world, hoping some day to send to my dear friend, Hannah, who lives in Scrooby, England, what may really come to be a story, even though the writer of it is only sixteen years old, having lived in Plymouth since the day our company landed from the Mayflower in 1620, more than eleven years ago.”So begins the compelling and historically-accurate Mary of Plymouth, the tale of sixteen-year-old Mary, who sailed with over a hundred Pilgrims on the Mayflower to establish a colony in America.The purpose of the stories in the Colonial America Series is to show children the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in their books, while describing the daily life of those people who conquered the wilderness whether for conscience sake or gain.