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Thin Wood Walls

David Patneaude

Eleven-year-old Joe Hanada likes playing basketball with his best friend, Ray, writing plays and stories, and thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday. But his world falls apart when Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor. His country goes to war. The FBI takes his father away. And neighbors and friends in his hometown near Seattle begin to suspect Joe, his family, and all Japanese Americans of spying for the enemy. When the government orders people of Japanese heritage living on the West Coast to move to internment camps, including Joe and his family, Joe turns to the journal his father gave him to record his thoughts and feelings.
Someone Was Watching

David Patneaude
A Piece of the Sky

David Patneaude

(Ages 10-13) Russell's summer seems doomed. He's stuck in small-town Oregon without a movie theater, a baseball park, or a pizza parlor. Then a legend about an old meteorite envelops him-and connects his grandfather's special rock and old map to a nearly blind ex-con who did time for manslaughter.
Eventually Russell, along with his new friends Phoebe and Isaac, makes a dangerous trip into the mountains to find the meteorite, rumored to be rare and valuable-and perhaps the same "piece of the sky" discovered by Russell's great-great-great-grandfather. When the dangerous Full Moon Mullins, also on the hunt for the meteorite, overtakes them, the expedition turns into a matter of life or death.
Best-selling author David Patneaude uses the Port Orford meteorite legend to connect themes of history, family love, and wonder in this action-driven page-turner. A Piece of the Sky is sure to appeal to Patneaude's large number of middle-grade fans.
Framed in Fire

David Patneaude

Peter has been sent to Resthaven Hospital because his stepfather thinks he's emotionally disturbed and dangerous to his younger half-brother, Lincoln. But Peter loves Lincoln. In fact, he's the only one who knows about Lincoln's dreams about Peter and a man with wings. And Peter thinks there's more to his father's death than his mother is telling. With the help of Lincoln and some friends at Resthaven, Peter begins a journey that could change his life forever.
Deadly Drive

David Patneaude

Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey’s mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the identity of the driver. Complicating her feelings, every year on the anniversary of her mother’s death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope full of money. Is it blood money—from her mother’s killer?
Casey, who shares her mother’s passion for basketball, is busy with practice and her new team. Still, she finds time to spend with her beloved neighbor, Megan, who helped care for her when she was younger, and with Megan’s daughter Dulcie. When it looks like Megan’s computer might contain a clue to the identity of her mother’s killer, Casey feels confused and betrayed.