About the different book series

"The Ladd Family Adventure"

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Twelve-year-old Josh Ladd longs to see his best friend who had moved to Hawaii. On the way home from his California school a stranger approaches Josh to ask suspicious questions. This small incident turns into a major danger when Josh and his family fly to Hawaii and the mysterious stranger follows them. The boys are thrust into all kinds of high adventure and danger throughout the 15 book series.
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"D.J. Dillon"

D J Dillon BannerAdventure, mystery and excitement repeatedly thrust 13-year-old D.J. Dillon into the kinds of trouble that young readers love. This popular series of 10 novels continues to be favorites of beginning readers, families and teachers who follow the boy’s experiences with bears and other animals in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. These stories with an evangelistic tone are fun to read while subtly reinforcing traditional family values.
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"An American Adventure" stories by Lee Roddy are finished but not yet scheduled for the press. Watch this web site for release dates.

These novels are set against the Great Depression of the 1930s in what has been described as “a delightful mingling of suspense, tears and joy.”  The mental, physical and spiritual strength of two 12-year old girls -- Hildy Corrigan and her cousin Ruby –are severely tested when a dramatic incident suddenly plunges them into a series of high adventures and dangers. With their friend, Spud, the stories continue through nine pulse-pounding novels.

Book 1: “The Overland Escape” introduces the main character, Hildy Corrigan, a strong-willed 12-year-old. She returns to her Ozark home one day to discover that your stepmother has taken her brother and four sisters, and moved away without leaving any hint of where they had gone. Abandoned, fighting anger, resentment and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding the family. Tracked by a crude mountain hunter hired to bring them back, Hildy despairs of ever finding her family and keeping a promise she had made to them.

FOURTH SERIES: "Between Two Flags" series by Lee Roddy is finished but not yet scheduled for the press. Watch this web site for release dates.

What was it like to grow up during the American Civil War? Six novels in this series answers that question through the lives of three totally different 12- and 13-year-old kids caught up in the terrible tragedy that engulfed the nation in the 1860s. The dramatic stories of each main character brings alive the challenges, dangers and heartaches each faced. Their lives were forever impacted by living through one of this country’s most tragic times. Follow the stories of these three kids:

GIDEON TUGWELL of Virginia is determined to escape the hard-scrabble farmer’s life of his father and become a writer. But when the war breaks out between the North and South, his older brother enlists, leaving Gideon with even more chores – and less time than ever to pursue his dreams. But the dream constantly drives him on, resulting in heart-pounding adventures.

EMILY LODGE, recently orphaned, has newly arrived from Illinois to live with her slave-holding relatives at Briarstone Plantation in Virginia. She finds that being a Yankee girl with strong abolitionist’s views is not easy among Confederates and plantation owners. Emily longs to return to Illinois – but how can she cross the battle lines?

NAT TRAVIS, a slave boy who has been secretly educated by a previous master, has just become servant to the young master of Briarstone Plantation. Nat’s seemingly-impossible desire is to escape, find and lead the rest of his family to freedom in Canada. But a brutal slave catcher and his vicious dogs are only the first of countless risks and dangers Nat faces.