Most Popular Books by Sigmund Brouwer

The disappearance of his soccer team''s leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping. If the Mavericks win just a few more games, they''ll make it to the national soccer championship. There''s only one catch. Their star player, Caleb Riggins, has disappeared. Matt Carr is determined to find his teammate and solve the mystery. He just didn''t realize it would involve attack dogs, a mysterious golden bridge and a family who may not be who they seem. And the big game is only days away. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Families will enjoy 15 weeks of devotions filled with fast-moving stories that keep tweens (especially boys!) engaged.

Trenton Hiser is trying to walk in the footsteps of his uncle, Mike Hiser, a successful Hollywood director. During Trenton''s summer vacation, he goes with his uncle to film the inside story of Scarlet Thunder, a top-level stock-car racing team. As they film the action, too many things go wrong, deadly mistakes are made and Trenton finds out that much more than the race is at stake. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Ray Hockaday plays center for the Medicine Hat Tigers in the Western Hockey League. Ray has spent his hockey career hiding something from the world. When his new Russian room-mate shows up, Ray is assigned to help Vlad get used to life in Canada. What Ray doesn''t know is that Vlad is also hiding something. And that secret could get both of them killed. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Book 3 of The Accidental Detectives, great adventures for reluctant readers! A trip to Charleston seems like a dull history tour until an unsolved mystery dating to the Civil War comes to Mike and Rickybs attention. But solving it will mean trusting an unlikely source.

I reminded myself that once you start to defend someone, it’s difficult to find a place to stop. But I went ahead and took that first step anyway. . . For President Teddy Roosevelt, controlling the east-west passage between two oceans mattered so much that he orchestrated a revolution to control it. His command was to ‘let the dirt fly’ and for years, the American Zone of the Panama Canal mesmerized the world, working in uneasy co-existence with the Panamanian aristocrats. It’s in this buffered Zone where, in 1909, James Holt begins to protect a defenseless girl named Saffire, expecting a short and simple search for her mother. Instead it draws him away from safety, into a land haunted by a history of pirates, gold runners, and plantation owners, all leaving behind ghosts of their interwoven desires sins and ambitions, ghosts that create the web of deceit and intrigue of a new generation of revolutionary politics. It will also bring him together with a woman who will change his course—or bring an end to it. A love story set within a historical mystery, Saffire brings to life the most impressive-and embattled- engineering achievement of the twentieth-century.

Spending the summer at cadet camp, Ricky solves the mystery of the Indian spirits and discovers that God''s creation is special and deserving of respect.

A boy coming of age in a time of war…the love that inspires him to survive. For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, a life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942. When the Japanese Imperialist army invades the Southeast Pacific, and his father and older stepbrothers are separated from the rest of the family, Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings. But he is surprised by what life in the camp reveals about his frail, troubled mother—a woman he barely knows. Amidst starvation, brutality, sacrifice and generosity, Jeremiah draws on all of his courage and cunning to fill in the gap his father and brothers left behind. Life in the camps is made more tolerable as Jeremiah’s boyhood infatuation with his close friend Laura deepens into a friendship from which they both draw strength. When the darkest sides of humanity threaten to overwhelm Jeremiah and Laura, they reach for God’s light and grace, shining through his people. Time and war will test their fortitude and the only thing that will bring them safely to the other side is the most enduring bond of all.

#1 Morning Star The vivid world of Samuel Keaton is riddled with uncertainties and little promise of surviving his life on the run, is there more to life than he has yet discovered?

It''s the All-Star team, made up of the WHL''s young hockey players, just one short step away from the NHL. Their goal is to beat the Russian All-Stars in a best-of-seven series to be shown as a television special. Hog Burnell, one of the biggest and toughest players in the league, is happy to be part of it. He could use the money that would come with a series win by the WHL All-Stars. At the very worst, it''s a free vacation to Russia. It doesn''t take Hog long to discover there''s plenty more money to be made along the way...if he''s willing to pay the price for it. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Bring the roof down. Rock the boat. Webb believes that if you want to reach your dreams, you have to live life loud. Make sure that when you look back, you have no regrets. But when a shady music producer steals one of Webb’s songs, Webb finds out how hard it is for a kid on his own in Nashville to get justice. With the help of an unlikely ally, Webb discovers that he has what it takes to succeed: talent, determination and some good friends. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

A free trip to a Colorado ski resort in ruined by a fire, a terrifying race down a slope, and a ghostly apparition.

Skydiving--one mistake, and you fall like a piano.until, SPLAT! You''re a blob of jam. Jeff Nichols works at a local flight school--just to pay for his skydiving. Then he hears of a plan to put his biggest rival into a ''chute roll, which he knows no skydiver has ever survived. But trying to stop it might put Jeff in an airplane at 10,000 feet--without his parachute.

Joel wants to help his brother in his newspaper delivery job, but ends up learning a valuable lesson about honesty. A fun first-reader series.

Returning home from from military service in India, an Englishman discovers he has leprosy and abandons his family and everything he loves rather than expose his family. After years of loneliness, isolation, and longing, he discovers an abandoned baby girl exposed to leprosy who will change him and the hearts of the community.

After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother''s cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team''s new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source of the pollution.

As the author of more than 40 adult and youth fiction books, Sigmund Brouwer is no stranger to young people. But he''s not just a writer-he''s a reader. As he has visited schools over the years, he''s collected copies of thousands of letters that teachers have received from students and parents. He presents some of the best notes and words of wisdom in the feel-good sampler Dear Teacher. Entries include "When you say put your hand up to go to the bathroom, how does that help?," "Never try to baptize a cat," and "Is it true my dad won''t go to heaven if he uses bowling words in the house?"

Summary: Twelve-year-old Ricky goes undercover in Alberta, Canada, to infiltrate the gang of thugs that are thought to be vandalizing his great-aunt''s mobile home park.

Ian has been going to Key West every summer for years, helping his Uncle Gord at his dive shop and spending as much time as he can underwater. When he''s not scuba diving, he''s admiring Sherri, the girl who works at the dive shop, and wondering how she would feel if he told her that he tastes blackberries whenever he sees her. A series of accidents leads Ian to believe that his uncle is in grave danger, but the truth is more complicated and terrifying than he could ever have imagined. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Is a puppy more important than a science project? Charlie knows how to make his group science project an organized success. But his best friend, Amy, would rather it be fun and gross. And their other partner, Jenna, is too worried about why her puppy keeps attacking her mom to think about their project at all. Charlie and Amy want to help Jenna, but what they don’t realize is that the puppy isn’t trying to hurt anyone: he’s trying to save someone! Can the kids figure out what he’s trying to tell them before it’s too late and will Charlie ever get their project back on track?

Lauren Cross is the first female player on a WHL team—goaltender Joseph Larken''s team, the Spokane Chiefs. For Joseph, the prospect of a season in the publicity shadow of a new female goalie promises to be a nightmare. Hiding behind a carefully built wall of anger, Joseph is relieved when a scandal knocks Lauren off the team...until he begins to believe she was framed.

Arguments de vente L’auteur a écrit de nombreux romans captivants et faciles à lire à l’intention des jeunes qui éprouvent des difficultés de lecture. Il sait comment retenir leur attention. Des caractéristiques spéciales (caractères typographiques, papier de couleur crème, format de livre) facilitent la lecture pour les dyslexiques et les jeunes qui ont de la difficulté à lire.

At summer camp, seven-year-old Joel and his older brother Ricky must decide how to deal with a bully.

While his older brother Ricky mixes cake for their mother''s birthday, seven-year-old Joel plans to make an unusual present that involves flies, popsicle sticks, and a camcorder.

Tyler is a good, solid hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler''s life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program, Tyler finds the passion and commitment he needs to step up his game on ice—and off. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

While visiting a ranch in Montana, Ricky finds God''s presence comforting when his investigation of disappearing livestock puts his life in danger.

In 1351, Raphael, a jester at the papal court in Avignon, France, is falsely accused of trying to kill the reigning Pope Clement VI and, with the help of his guardian angel, must decide whether to trust a beautiful English girl who may or may not be partof the assassination plot.

At 17, star defenseman Craig McElhaney likes his chances of making it as a pro hockey player. Yet, a string of recent "accidents" threatens to knock Craig''s team out of the playoffs and ruin his promising career. Craig has begun to question how many "accidents" can happen before they become more than a coincidence. But it''s not a good time for questions. Not in the spotlight of high-pressure hockey. Not when the team needs him most. And not when he has some important lessons to learn about life. For Craig, however, there is no choice. Unless the questions are answered, the team''s season and his promising career will surely end. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

There''s no rulebook for living on a veterinary farm for sick animals — unless you make one yourself! Eleven-year-old Charlie Dembinski likes to keep his life organized and quiet. This is a challenge when you live on a farm where your mother runs a veterinary clinic for the local livestock, neighbors’ pets and sometimes rescued wildlife. To complicate Charlie’s orderly life even further, his mother hires a bookkeeper to live on the farm who brings along her daughter, Amy Ma. And Amy is anything but quiet! Her constant questions and attempts to spend time with Charlie really bother him, and he doesn’t understand why the adults seem to like her so much. But when a neighbor’s beloved dog gets sick with a mysterious illness, Charlie realizes that Amy’s outgoing approach might not be all that bad. This is the first book in the Charlie''s Rules series.

Sheriff Samuel Keaton faces the prospect of an explosive showdown in Laramie in the fall of 1874.

As the test of his faith in virtual reality continues, Mok, a Plebot from the twenty-first century, finds himself in the Middle Ages in a castle besieged during the Crusades.

On vacation in Florida, Ricky Kiddbs finds himself in a nightmare adventure that heads deep into the Everglades in this youth adventure series.

Can Joel find a way to be kind to a neighbor and yet not have to eat her horrible meals?

As Tyce, his dad, and Ashley are held hostage in a military prison in the Florida Everglades, the Terrataker infiltrators work to foil their plan for escape and their plan to rescue the kids at the secret institute.

Slater Ellis and Paige Stephens try to stop rogue scientist Dr. Josef Van Klees from continuing his dangerous experiments in genetic engineering.

Postcard-perfect Hawaii proves to be anything but paradise when Ricky and the other Accidental Detectives stumble on an active volcano that threatens to destroy the hiding places of immigrants. What can the Accidental Detectives do to help--without being reduced to ash? (July)

Keegan, the best skier on the hill, ends up playing detective when he discovers that someone is trying to sabotage the ski team, and it looks like a pretty blonde snowboarder is involved.

"In life, as in sports, faith in God through Jesus, His Son, is the best edge you can have." Mike Gartner. Professional hockey players are people like the rest of us--seeking answers

When Ricky and his friends and family forego a planned vacation to return to New York City to help an old friend, they become involved in a mystery which includes blackmail, arson, and lost love.

Following the great Water Wars, the Earth is a hstile place and Christianity is out-lawed ... Mok faces the threat of a cyber-assassin aboard a pirate ship on the high seas in this third adventure in the CyberQuest series. Unknown to Mok, if he goes overboard, his life will cease to exist!