Books with title The Mighty Tusks

The powerful sequel to the award-winning Freak the Mighty. Fourteen-year-old Max is back, and he finds himself defending a solitary girl nicknamed "Worm" against a cruel man known as the Undertaker. Against all odds, the teens embark on a perilous journey in search of Worm's father and must face something more frightening than death itself. Written in a haunting yet uplifting first-person voice, Publishers Weekly calls Max the Mighty "a rip-roaring, heartwarming escapade".

A compelling journey into the minds of the animals of the African rainforest and their fight to survive.In THE MIGHTY TUSKS, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of the animals of the African rainforest, Erik Daniel Shein and Melissa Davis create a world that mirrors our own.A war has raged for centuries in the African rainforest. Animals living in factions band together for a greater cause. Once a place of peace ruled by a great tusker king, the rainforest now lies in shadows as the ghosts of the obambo fight for dominance. The story is older than time, but a glimmer of hope shines on the horizon. Change is in the wind, and the world is ready for it.Dakarai, a young African forest elephant, has grown up on the stories of his father, the great tusker king, Ajamu. It is not only his birthright to follow in his father’s footsteps, but also his greatest desire. Hidden and sheltered from the ongoing war, Dakarai finds himself unprepared when the time comes to join.With their very existence at stake, Dakarai must master his abilities and self-doubts to face the greatest evil in the jungle. If he doesn’t prevail, all is lost.The language, social structure, intellectual, and spiritual world of elephants and the other animals of the rainforest are as real as the fabric of human life. In THE MIGHTY TUSKS, Erik Daniel Shein, a zoologist, and Melissa Davis, an educator, plunge the readers into an alien landscape, an extremely distinct, invented world, with its own social and linguistic structures, and its own myths and totems. Readers orient themselves into the animal’s consciousness and begin to feel what it would be like to be that imperiled. Readers will never think the same of elephants and their resilience.

He's not crazy. Honest, he's not.He's just Wyatt. Wyatt the Mighty.Fifteen-year-old Wyatt has been sent to a treatment center for "disturbed youth." No one understands him. He wants nothing more than to escape from it all.And he does.Through a magic he doesn't understand, he finds himself in Hagion, a realm of fantastical creatures and immense wonder. He quickly finds himself in the company of a runaway warrior and two Children--a strange race of underground creatures that seem forever joyful. They claim Wyatt is a Druid, a powerful figure of myth and legend, sent to restore peace to all of the Realms. He doesn't bother correcting them.Finally, he can be the hero he's always dreamed of.But claiming to be a hero and actually being a hero are two different things. And it's a lesson Wyatt may have to pay dearly for.A Mature YA(ish) Fantasy/Contemporary Tale

New York Times best-selling Author Jim Dent decided to write The Mighty Mites, the Young Adult Version of his fabulously popular Twelve Mighty Orphans when he realized how many young readers were interested in the story. The last seven years, more than fifty school districts in Texas have made Twelve Mighty Orphans required reading. Several high school football teams have read it. The Frisco Heritage High School team turned the book into a class project. The principal and the librarian received a grant to buy ninety books and conducted four classes. They made a field trip to the Masonic Home in Fort Worth. Then they asked the author to speak to the team for ninety minutes. Now comes The Mighty Mites, which is the perfect Christmas gift for anyone from ages eight to eighteen. It is a condensed version of Twelve Mighty Orphans that is considered one of the best sports books ever written. It is an inspirational non-fiction story tailored for young readers that covers an era when an orphans’ football team from the Fort Worth Masonic Home captured the imagination of the entire country.