Most Popular Books by Allan W. Eckert

This is a fantasy, a la C.S.Lewis, about twins (boy and girl) who find their way into a parallel world in which there are strange creatures, strange people, strange topography, and evil kings and warlocks trying to rule the entire land of Messmeria. The twins join the "good" forces to help overcome the evil ones.

Par un jour orageux de 1870, Ben MacDonald, un petit garçon un peu sauvage, se perd dans la prairie américaine où ses parents ont installé leur ferme. Surpris par la tempête, Ben se glisse dans un terrier où vit une mère blaireau. De la rencontre de ces deux êtres solitaires naît une extraordinaire aventure.

"Eckert''s skills as a naturalist, previously displayed in his Newbery Award-winning Incident at Hawk''s Hill, are here given full expression and armchair adventurers will soon be caught in its spell. The pristine and often savage beauty of the killer rainforest is described in lush detail; the reader is right there, watching. Once the reader has been snagged, he''ll be as much a captive of the magnificent forest as is Sarah Francis and just as intent as she to survive in a paradoxically terrifying and beautiful environment. The reader cannot help by hold his breath!" -Cincinnati Enquirer

Explores America''s westward expansion beyond the Mississippi River, 1834-1848.

Captured at the age of twelve by a U.S. General he comes to regard as father, Johnny Logan, a nephew of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, eventually rejects the ways of his tribe and becomes an American spy during the War of 1812.

A very special young adult nature novel about the life and adventures in survival of a North Carolina king snake, from the time of his hatching until he becomes adult. The story shows the way he lives, how he catches and eats his prey (including other snakes, even poisonous ones), his value in the balance of nature and the fascinating events of his life, shedding new light and understanding about the lives of snakes, which, despite their value to man, are so often misunderstood and deliberately killed just because of what they are or what they are perceived to be.

Back in the land of Mesmeria now under the rule of the evil King Krumpp, Lara and Barnaby discover all their friends imprisoned and the only way that they can rescue them is to find and learn how to use the secret volumes of the Warp and the Wand. Sequelto "The Dark Green Tunnel."

A young boy''s remarkable ability to transfer his consciousness at will into any living organism and to share what it experiences proves to be an exhilarating but bittersweet gift.

Allan Eckert has taken all of the known facts of Blue Jacket''s life and has woven them into a narrative with a very different perspective on the settling of America.

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.