Charlie Evers is a tenth grade student at an international school in Shanghai, China. He will never finish his last research assignment. Ignoring all warnings about Chinese Internet censors, he navigates to sites that look informative, but shred the government on politically sensitive issues. As a teenage American student he thinks he is safe. The illusion of safety is ripped away when Charlie is taken. Imprisoned onboard an old river boat, a seven-day journey up the Yangtze River catapult...

Sixteen-year-old Zane Walker was lucky the first time: hero, reformer, media sensation, escape artist—and blasphemer. His survival of numerous near death experiences was chalked up to a Teflon coating, bestowed by some sympathetic benefactor. Casting online religious edicts to a worldwide Islamic audience was not a typical high school media project, especially from an American school in Saudi Arabia. When he was found out, he thought his life was over. Miraculously, authorities discovered ...

Isolated on a beach at the southern tip of Hong Kong island, a building of unknown origin stands, slightly buried to an unknowable depth. Its girth is massive; twenty feet cubed— same in length, width, and height. Solid stone. A place for hiding things? A place that eventually proved, not everything of value could be seen or touched.From what little history had been learned, there was nothing to indicate other worldly connections. It was of this earth, man-made, constr...

1967At fifteen, traveling alone, scrambling to stay ahead of a nationwide manhunt, Jake Garrity is forced to temporarily suppress the pain of his father’s recent death. He has no other family. The Commandant at the military school where his father had him enrolled was succinct: The mine exploded, his death was instantaneous, he never knew what hit him. Sorry for your loss. Vietfuckingnam. Jake has no alternative. He has to run, run like hell.After three mon...

Bursting from these foot loose and freewheeling pages: the unrestrained adventures of a guy named Bob, who, as a kid, could never sit or stand still. As his teachers and parents found out early on, his path would always take him anywhere but where he was: relentless, driven, ready and packed. Or as his mom would say, trying to comfort his teachers. “Shpilkis—ants in the pants, he’s a boy.” Sadly, not much comfort.His early travel dreams were inspired by Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki. A...

When 13-year-old Ben Caplan comes apart at school once again, he is given a choice—expulsion, military school, or what's behind door number three. Who would have guessed—a rolling rubber room, in the cab of a 70-semi truck, at 70 mph? To top it off, he's thrown in with the two guys he loves the most—who happen to be the guys who have brought him to the brink. Then Voilà, a Hail Mary intervention never tried in a school counselor's grab bag of desperate measures.The trip to Las Vega...

Between these pages: the scintillating, sometimes hysterical, life of Bob Jonas—traveler, trucker, librarian, and storyteller. From his earliest memories, all Bob ever wanted to do was put as much distance between himself and wherever he was. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl, his early adulthood started him off in a semi-truck, where he logged over a million miles in eleven western states, then continuing his journey overseas in forty-seven countries. His lust for adventure was more than a call ...

In a more tolerant world, Zane Walker’s charade would have been ignored. In Saudi Arabia, a sixteen-year-old boy masquerading as an online cleric, cannot be ignored. In a media studies class he is taking at an international school he is to create media personae, an online presence using social media. One student creates a new product. One creates a service. Another creates a non-profit to raise money and awareness. Zane Walker creates an international incident.His interpretation of...

Charlie Evers is a tenth grade student at an international school in Shanghai, China. He will never finish his last research assignment. Ignoring all warnings about Chinese Internet censors, he navigates to sites that look informative, but shred the government on politically sensitive issues. As a teenage American student he thinks he is safe. The illusion of safety is ripped away when Charlie is taken. Imprisoned onboard an old river boat, a seven-day journey up the Yangtze River catapult...

Sixteen-year-old Zane Walker was lucky the first time: hero, reformer, media sensation, escape artist—and blasphemer. His survival of numerous near death experiences was chalked up to a Teflon coating, bestowed by some sympathetic benefactor. Casting online religious edicts to a worldwide Islamic audience was not a typical high school media project, especially from an American school in Saudi Arabia. When he was found out, he thought his life was over. Miraculously, authorities discovered ...

In a more tolerant world, Zane Walker's charade would have been ignored. In Saudi Arabia, a sixteen-year-old boy masquerading as an online cleric, cannot be ignored. Ina media studies class he is taking at an international school he is to create media personae, an online presence using social media. One student creates a new product. One creates a service. Another creates a non-profit to raise money and awareness. Zane Walker creates an international incident.His interpretat...

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western histor...