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Spirit Lights

Spirit LightsSpirit Lights (book)

Print: $9.95

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Set in Canada’s Northwest Territories in the 1930s, Spirit Lights continues the adventures of twelve-year-old Jean-Paul, his husky, Sasha, and Inuit friends he made in the first book, The Haunted Igloo.

Returning to the Arctic after a two-year absence, Jean-Paul has overcome his old fear of the dark only to discover that his best friend Chinook is afraid of spirit lights.

One dark polar night, after searching by dogsled for a crashed plane, Jean-Paul hears sounds that seem to come from an aurora. Chinook and their friend Kunee say the spirits in the lights are speaking, warning of danger, but Jean-Paul knows auroras can’t talk . . . (Ages 12 & up)

Fans of Gary Paulsen & Scott O'Dell will enjoy this book. PREVIEW THIS BOOK
The Haunted Igloo

The Haunted IglooThe Haunted Igloo (book)

Print: $10.99

Download: $3.25

For someone afraid of the dark, living in the Arctic is a severe test of courage. There the sun doesn't shine for several months of the year. Jean-Paul, a young Canadian boy, struggles to hide his fear and adjust to life in the Northwest Territories, where he is taunted and excluded from activities by a group of Inuit boys because of his small size and a limp caused by a birth defect.

When Jean-Paul finally succeeds in impressing the boys with the tricks he's taught his husky, Sasha, they agree to let him join their club, the Ice Patrol. But as part of the initiation, they force him into a deserted igloo that is rumored to be haunted, where he must remain for two hours. The forced imprisonment, with no light and only Sasha for company, proves to be just the beginning of the most serious challenges to face Jean-Paul in the harsh Arctic environment. (Ages 8-12) PREVIEW THIS BOOK
Down the Memory Hole

Down the Memory HoleDown the Memory Hole (book)

Print: $11.95

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Summer vacation sucks when 12-year-old Buzz Collins shares his room and emotional space with his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s disease, and his parents forbid him to associate with his best friend, Mitch. The thought of giving up his friendship is bad enough. But how can he relate to someone who forgets his grandson’s name, wears adult diapers, and thinks dog biscuits are people cookies—someone who could die in the night and scare Buzz right out of puberty.

Buzz thinks Alzheimer’s is caused by a traumatic event, such as the train accident that killed Grandpa’s brother Barkley in childhood. The situation turns deadly when Buzz and Mitch—whose friendship Buzz refuses to end—attempt to cure Grandpa of Alzheimer’s disease by recreating the train accident on a hot summer day. (Ages 12 & up)

Readers who enjoyed the movie "Stand By Me" will also enjoy this book. PREVIEW THIS BOOK
Footprints in Time: A Walk in Sacajawea's Moccasins

Footprints in Time: A Walk in Sacajawea's MoccasinsFootprints in Time: A Walk in Sacajawea's Moccasins (book)

Print: $9.75

Download: $4.26

When America was young, many individuals left their footprints in the sands of time as they explored the unknown from east to west.

In 1805, a young Shoshone woman named Sacajawea joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as an interpreter, and with a papoose on her back, helped explore America’s northwest while searching for a route to the Pacific Ocean.

This time-honored true story of the hardships of the expedition, in particular that of Sacajawea and her baby son, Jean-Baptist (Pomp), is now retold in a different format for young readers.(Ages 8-12) PREVIEW THIS BOOK

Aurorawolf's Blog

  • A Life and Love of Reading

    2007 May 04

    My favorite books when I was young were the famous Dick and Jane readers. My family couldn't afford to buy books and I don't recall hearing about a library in my small city, so I learned to read from D & J and just loved those stories.

    I don't recall when I could afford to buy my own reading material, but long before then, a relative gave me a subscription to "Wee Wisdom," a small children's magazine put out by The Unity School of Christianity, in Unity Village, near Lee's Summit, Missouri. Someone else gave me a large book titled The Big, Big Storybook, and from that I learned about Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, Heidi, and Black Beauty, to name a few favorites.

    So I learned to love reading, and the stories took me to faraway lands I could only dream of visiting in person. Through the years, I discovered libraries--and National Geographic Magazine, from which some of us kids sneaked peeks of naked natives with bones in their noses and bright colors tattooed on their skins, ahem! If caught looking at those pictures, we would've been severely reprimanded, because GOOD little girls didn't look at nude pictures! No no no no!!!! (Well, we were curious, so why not?)

    Mark Twain was my favorite author in those days, and Edgar A. Guest one of my favorite poets. I eagerly read everything I could get my hands on, including some adult books I'd been forbidden to read while in school: Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road, and Forever Amber (a tame book by today's standards). Such a protected childhood I had! mrgreen

    Other great books followed: Little Women, Lorna Doone, East Wind; West Wind, Giants in the Earth, The Odyssey of Homer--the one with the great long poem that everybody else in my high school class hated. There were too many books to mention, and the list grew and grew into a long-tailed monster that devoured all kinds of reading material.

    Well, that's not the rest of the story, but enough. One day I decided I could write a book, too, and through many trials and errors (mostly giant, glaring errors!), I came to the place where I am today: a published author of children's books, all because I fell in love with Dick and Jane when I was six years old.

    Namaste!
    Bonnie

  • ***HAPPY NEW YEAR!***

    2007 Jan 01

    Wishing everyone a Happy New Year from Wisconsin on this very rainy night. I hope all your dreams and wishes come true.

    Namaste!

    Bonnie Turner (AKA, Aurorawolf)

  • VACATION TIME

    2006 Jun 23

    After writing the first draft of my latest novel, I think it's time I took a few days to recover. And for those who haven't written a complete novel of at least 90,000 words, just let me say: Try it, and you'll know why writers need breaks. biggrin

    Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm leaving on a trip to my birthplace, Independence, Missouri. I'm riding down from Wisconsin with my son, his wife, and their baby boy--who will soon be eight-months-old and is almost ready to walk. surprised

    Along the way, we'll stay overnight in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after which we'll head south to my relatives for a family reunion. Coming home again, we'll spend a night in Chicago before heading north to Wisconsin.

    I miss my hometown and the relatives I haven't seen in years. It'll be good to see them again.

    For those of you who don't know, Independence is the home of former President Truman. The summer White House is just north of the downtown square, and the Truman Library is located not far from where we'll be staying.

    Independence shares another historical significance--it was the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail, when families hitched their oxen to covered wagons and started out westward to forge wagon-rutted trails to Oregon and California over rivers and through mountains.

    I won't be going through mountains, just the lovely hills I remember as a child.

    See you in a week! biggrin


    Namaste!
    Bonnie (AKA Aurorawolf)