McKinney author Grant Kauffman has finished his first novel, the first in a series of young adult fiction/adventure books, and he is now working on the second installment. This is one of the best books I have read in a long time; see the synopsis below. The book is available on Amazon.com in paperback and as an ebook and is the perfect summer read for adults and kids alike! “Day 13, Entry One: No sleep last night, again. There are several reasons …

Moonshine Cove is a small independent publisher based in the Appalachian foothills region of South Carolina. We are not a vanity press, subsidy publisher or so-called self-publisher meaning our authors do not pay us anything at all to have their books published. Instead we pay all costs of publishing and distribution and pay our authors royalties based on sales of their books. Moonshine Cove Publishing s only form of income is book sales to the public …

Our Adventure Book is the exact same album that we created for the real production crew for the movie Up! The front cover is a custom designed high resolution image created with lots of detail while the back cover and album spine are made using a rich quality book cover material. It is a 12x12 post bound album that can either be used as a scrapbook or a simple photo album. Abum is expandable up to 50 pages with additional refills. ALBUM INCLUDES …

Philip Webb had a happy childhood, roaming and exploring and being fascinated by the local rubbish dump where he played out lots of post-apocalyptic adventures with his friends. His first novel, Six Days, is published by Chicken House, and comes with a competition to feature in Philip s next book. Find out more on the Six Days website: Six Days by Philip Webb at the Guardian bookshop When I set out to write Six Days, I was clear about one thing – …

Always an adventurer in life as well as writing, best-selling author Cherry Adair moved halfway across the globe from Cape Town, South Africa to the United States. She settled in beautiful San Francisco, where she started what eventually became a thriving interior design business. I loved being a designer because it was varied and creative, and I enjoyed working with the public. A voracious reader when she was able to carve out the time, Cherry …

This is a classic children s adventure novel from 1949. John Hunt is a zookeeper for a zoo on Long Island, and he spends much of his time traveling the world to rescue and acquire animal specimens for the zoo. As the story begins, he has decided that his two sons, Hal (nineteen) and Roger (thirteen) are finally old enough to join him on an expedition. This expedition will take them deep into Western Brazil, in the unexplored sections of one of the …

Series Books Featuring Adventurous Girls A commenter on my personal blog asked an interesting question the other day about book recommendations for girls. Susan wrote: My friend and I each have a son and daughter in the 3rd to 5th grade range. We were talking about what the kids were currently reading. In the course of our conversation, we both agreed it was much harder to find books that our girls were interested in than our boys. Given that I often …

Nothing speaks to the heart of man like a good tale of adventure. Whether in the form of a bedtime story read to young boys or a nail biting page turner that keeps you up at night, the adventure story is one genre of literature that stays with you for a lifetime. The very mention of such novels brings to mind images of buried treasure, hidden deep in the jungle of a deserted island, protected by dastardly pirates and the local cannibal population …

Sylvan Learning’s Book Adventure Teams Up with LeapFrog® to Launch New Reading Contest for Children and Families Individual students and classrooms can participate for a chance to win exciting prizes; Contest runs March 1 through April 1, 2013 Baltimore, MD – In celebration of National Education Association’s Read Across America and to help cultivate and encourage a love of reading in the new academic year, Sylvan Learning’s Book Adventure is teaming …

A list we had hoped our readers would enjoy turned out to be one of the most popular features in Adventure s five-year history. You asked for itrepeatedlynow you got it: the 100 Greatest in all their glory. 1. The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) As War and Peace is to novels,so is The Worst Journey in the World to the literature of polar travel: the one to beat. The author volunteered as a young man to go to the Antarctic …