Bøker av Ruthy Ballard

An alarming family secret leads an adventurous girl into a world of witch doctors, child-eating lions, and an intragalactic submarine escapade in this delightful middle-grade portal fantasy.Passionate, ten-year-old Elvia Hill is bored with her safe, dishwater dull life with her stiflingly overprotective parents. She knows she was meant for something... more. But the young girl gets more than she bargains for when she discovers an alarming family secret and is swept away on an adventure 64,000 light years from Earth. Complete with Tanzanian witch doctors, child-eating lions, and submarine exploration on a two-mooned planet, this science fiction fantasy adventure will delight middle-grade readers and keep them turning the pages!The third installment in the Tales by Moons-Light series continues the tradition of the first two books, weaving solid science into a rip-roaring intragalactic coming-of-age adventure.

Frankie Russo doesn't brood about the past or worry about the future. He lives in the present moment, frolicking in a world of make-believe that drives his high-achieving parents crazy. They have lofty ambitions for him, but Frankie has no interest. He prefers to flip helium burgers on Jupiter or rule a kingdom of mermen in the Caspian Sea, up inside his head, where all the fun is.Frankie's parents nag him endlessly, worried he'll come to nothing. But all that changes when he disappears through a mysterious crack in his bedroom ceiling and finds himself on a distant, two-mooned planet called Urth.Why was he drawn there? He doesn't know, but as he embarks on a delightful, mind-blowing adventure, Frankie's desperate parents think he's been abducted, and an innocent man is arrested on DNA evidence and charged with the crime!

Presents seven tales from a distant, two-mooned planet called Urth.