Bøger af Dave McDonald

"A nail-biting, gut-wrenching, emotional depth charge of a story"-Natasha Boyd, USA Today & WSJ Best Selling Author.A young man ventures into worn-torn Afghanistan to try and save his father and grandmother.Confronting unimaginable horrors along the way, he pieces together the answer to long-kept family secrets.To save himself and his family, he must change from a naïve, quaking coward into a fear-eating killer. However, his odds of surviving are poor.

This first volume in the series is jam-packed with outrageously silly comics, jokes and highly engaging activities sure to be a hit with kids 6-12! Meet Artie and Barnwood, two flaky barnyard buddies whose shenanigans will have readers laughing out loud! Author/Illustrator Dave McDonald is an accredited teaching artist whose Kids Make Comics school programs have helped thousands of students design their own original characters and create their own comics. The activities in this book accordingly are based on the art of making comics and promise to develop the skills of the young cartoonist in your family!In this book: -10 pages of Artie and Barnwood comics!-A "How to Draw Artie" lesson-How to use simple shapes to create super characters!-Comics-making crossword and word search puzzles!-Maize Maze!-Coloring pages!-"Finish the Comic" activity page!Caution: The puns in this book are so severe that they may cause rolling fits of laughter, uncontrollable chortling, gasping and giggling. Read at your own risk!

Powerball winners are being murdered and their winnings are missing. A decorated former Marine officer is tired and broken until given another shot at life: a loving girlfriend, a lottery commissioner's job, and a seductive female governor as his new boss. Within his first week as a commissioner, Brent Layne discovers he's trapped in a corruption pit with everyone around him either lying or dying.

The Hamsternational Space Station is in trouble, and it's going to take a Secret Adventure Mission to save the day! The fastidious Hamster Sam and his folksy sidekick Fescue (a field mouse with a mullet) must pilot their homemade portable potty rocket, the P.U. 3000, past a slew of obstacles including lunar dust bunnies, a squadron of schnozz rockets and the Intergalactic Grammar Police. Plus- in a unique epilogue feature you'll meet a real-live NASA astronaut and find out what it's like to travel into outer space! Hamster Sam interviews space shuttle pilot Gregory H. Johnson, who flew the shuttle Endeavor on two successful missions to the International Space Station.

Quillie Joe MacFee, a war correspondent tries to leave his job and family tragedy behind and create a new life. However, he can't outrun a decision he made, years before, to turn in a powerful crime boss. Quillie will have to use his wits to outmaneuver not just this new foe and build the life he wants, but another unexpected adversary in order to keep the woman he loves.

Here is a description of "More Than A Game" in the words of the protagonist, Carter Mason: I know what I look like: a stereotype; a fatherless black kid pinning his hopes on a football scholarship. But I've got the skills and the smarts to back it up. One night, and an innocent dance with a white girl, and my whole world and all my dreams start to unravel. The killing begins. People are looking at me. And the circle of people I can trust is getting smaller by the day. I can feel the net closing in. I have to find the killer before he finds me. I have to play the best football of my life. I have to stay alive long enough to get a ticket out of hell.