21 títulos para "Michael Cantwell Cantwell"

The Halls of Montezuma

Cantwell, Michael

Fourteen-year-old Peter Collins cannot help but wonder if it was all just a dream. Even though it has been two years since he traveled back in time to ancient Mexico with his friend, Rosa Guzman, two questions continue to haunt him: Why hasn't Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent who guided Rosa and him...

The Halls of Montezuma

Cantwell, Michael

Fourteen-year-old Peter Collins cannot help but wonder if it was all just a dream. Even though it has been two years since he traveled back in time to ancient Mexico with his friend, Rosa Guzman, two questions continue to haunt him: Why hasn't Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent who guided Rosa and him...

Presidential Whispers

Cantwell, Michael O

Have you ever wanted extra help surviving freshman year in high school? Alex owns a magical book written by the men who founded our nation. When he reads it, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, all come alive and offer guidance, while telling tales from the past. However, even Thomas Jefferson cant find...

My Friend Casey

Cantwell, Michael

After moving from town to town, Philip Nason and his family finally settle in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit. It's the summer of 1937, shortly after Philip turns eleven. A lonely child, he inhabits a world of daydreams, filling notebooks with his cartoon fantasies. He discovers he's unable...

The Rising of the Fifth Sun

Cantwell, Michael

Peter Collins and Rosa Guzman, having passed their first round of tests in ancient Mexico, are again summoned by the Plumed Serpent who flies them back in time to the first morning of the world. There, the sixth graders witness the origins of human sacrifice as gods throw themselves into the sluggis...

Rosa's Gift and Other Stories

Cantwell, Michael

From a young writer trying to win a girl to a boy grappling with confusion about sin, each protagonist in this collection of nine short stories experiences a journey, an encounter, or a revelation that transforms them. In Rosa's Gift and Other Stories, author Michael Cantwell presents these stories...

The Rising of the Fifth Sun

Cantwell, Michael

Peter Collins and Rosa Guzman, having passed their first round of tests in ancient Mexico, are again summoned by the Plumed Serpent who flies them back in time to the first morning of the world. There, the sixth graders witness the origins of human sacrifice as gods throw themselves into the sluggis...

The Secret of the Smoking Mirror

Cantwell, Michael

Peter Collins is a shy sixth-grader who thinks his worst problems are being bullied by his stepfather and his classmates-until he awakens one night to see a giant feathered serpent hovering over his bed. Terrified beyond belief, he has no idea that he and his classmate, Rosa Guzman, are about to tim...

Chasing Mayan Dreams

Cantwell, Michael

At the height of World War II, Erika Boeshure, a photojournalist, flees Nazi Germany and goes to Mexico on assignment for a New York magazine. There, in a sleepy Mexican village on the edge of the jungle, she meets Claus Boehm, a Danish-born archaeologist who is struggling to restore a career shatt...

The Black Hole Express

Cantwell, Michael

The Perfect World exists in the far distant future and is ruled by an old man called the Grand Exterminator. In this heavily polluted world people wear oxygen masks and silver vinyl jump suits. They’ve never seen flowers or grass. Robots do their work and their thinking. Many laws exist, but t...

Chasing Mayan Dreams

Cantwell, Michael

Explorers search for a lost Mayan city-and love-in this lush romantic adventure. Recently sprung from a Nazi concentration camp, Swiss photojournalist Erika Boeshure lands in southern Mexico to cover a wilderness expedition led by Claus Boehm, a charismatic but washed-up archaeologist hunting for t...

Max the Mouse and the Secret of Mars

Cantwell, Michael

Max the mouse didn’t mean to run away from home. He had a good gig with his owner, Melissa. He was well fed, and he liked riding on the little girl’s shoulder when she walked around the house. But Max was really curious to see what was on the other side of the fence in the backyard. Once...