Bøger af Tim Tingle

Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep, and capture his family. During the Long Walk of 1864, Danny soon becomes a troublemaker, refusing to accept captivity. He is sent to Fort Davis, Texas, a Civil War prisoner outpost. There he battles bullies, rattlesnakes, and soldiers, until he meets Jim Davis. Davis teaches Danny how to hold his anger and how to read and speak in English. For Christmas, Davis aids Danny in a daring and dangerous escape. Set in troubled times for the Navajo, Danny Blackgoat is the story of one boy's hunger to be free.

In the third book in the No Name series, the turmoil in Bobby Byington's life has settled down. His parents are reunited, his father has turned away from the bottle, and he is a starter on the high school basketball team.

This novel for teens, part of the No Name series, features the Choctaw Nation basketball team competing in a national tournament.

A Choctaw Native teen hides from his abusive father in a spot he hopes his father won't find.

A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land his people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.

From the award-winning author of How I Became a Ghost, a tale of unlikely friendship and miracles. When Martha Tom helps Lil Mo and his family escape from the plantation across the river, it's just the beginning of a Choctaw adventure of a lifetime.

In this Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare," master storyteller Tim Tingle reveals some unexpected twists and expands the cast of memorable characters to include a wild turkey, a colony of ants, and a cheering squad of Little Bitty Turtles.

Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, How I Became a Ghost is a tale of innocence and resilience in the face of tragedy. From the opening line, "Maybe you have never read a book written by a ghost before," the reader is put on notice that this is no normal book. Isaac leads a remarkable foursome of Choctaw comrades: a tough-minded teenage girl, a shape-shifting panther boy, a lovable five-year-old ghost who only wants her mom and dad to be happy, and Isaac's talking dog, Jumper. The first in a trilogy, How I Became a Ghost thinly disguises an important and oft-overlooked piece of history.

Since his father gave up drinking, basketball star Bobby Byington's life is finally on track, but he wishes he could say the same for his girlfriend and a fellow teammate.

Set in troubled times during the Navajo Long Walk of 1864, Danny Blackgoat is the story of one boy's hunger to be free and be Navajo.

determination, disappointment, alcoholism, Choctaw, basketball

This story is Part Four, in the continuing Travis Lee series. As you will remember from Part Three, 'Eye of the Sorcerer'. .Travis Lee had finally returned home from a harrowing experience in Colombia, South America, where he was working for his employer, Southern States Energy Company. In addition to the dangers of being kidnapped by a drug cartel, and surviving a plane crash in the jungle, he now has a new worry, one of a supernatural kind. He has become the target of a Tucano Indian sorcerer, who believes that Travis has stolen something valuable from him, and he will stop at nothing to get it back. Using his power to create illusions, the sorcerer will try to get it back, and take revenge on Travis for taking it from him. Part Four, 'Illusions', begins as Travis is arriving back home, just weeks before he is to take his wife on their second honeymoon trip to Greece. But little does he know, the danger he is in, as the old sorcerer closes in on him, and even follows him on the plane to Greece.

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. This title features ten creepy tales. Suitable for young readers, it also includes eerie illustrations.

The fearsome Chupacabra stalks the desert valley, while a grandson wanders far from the ranch. The woman who's just moved to the neighborhood wears strange sunglasses after dark. What could be behind them? A man picks up a hitchhikeronly to discover that his passenger is not human. Kids of all ages will find chills and thrills in these tales of the weird, the macabre, and the mysterious, all collected from the lore and legends of the Lone Star State. In addition to "Skinwalker," the authors' most requested school concert story, this new volume adds spine-tingling twists on the account of La Llorona, the weeping woman, said to be the world's best-known ghost; the classic tale "The Money's Paw"; the story of "The Screaming Banshee Cattle of the Night Swamp," and seven others. Told with humor and lively modern-day detail, these renderings by veteran storytellers not only please and entertain but preserve a wealth of folklore from a culturally diverse region of the country.