New Releases by Lee Roddy

The American Adventure series continues with four more books: Terror in the Sky, Mystery of the Phantom Gold, Gold Train Bandits, and High Country Ambush.

A petty quarrel and efforts to foil poachers who are after some rare birds seem unimportant as members of the Ladd family separately struggle to survive when a powerful hurricane hits the island of Kauai.

Josh and his friends investigate mysterious lights on Molokai and try to figure out how to get a valuable surfboard back from the neighborhood bully, Kong.

Two boys learn more about trusting God when they are captured by the inhabitants of a tropical island.

A dangerous adventure begins for the Ladds when mammoth waves hit Oahu and they rescue a father and daughter in very strange circumstances.

Hildy befriends a shy new girl in town who confides that she's the daughter of a notorious bank robber and has been kidnapped away from her mother. She wants to return to her mother, but she is afraid of her father, whose gang plans to rob a train carrying millions in gold.

Roddy's character-building, entertaining stories, set against the crushing problems of the Great Depression, inspire and challenge today's young readers to "hang on" through present-day troubles. Here, Hildy learns that although change is an inevitable part of life for everyone, it is possible to have faith in God in the midst of anything life sends along.

Struggling with school and a lack of money during the Depression, seventh grader Hildy is overwhelmed when the little girl she cares for after school is kidnapped, but God steps in in a remarkable manner.

Hildy Corrigan is thrust into unexpected jeopardy and learns a valuable lesson about God when she tries to help her benefactor learn who is stealing gold from his mine in California's historic Mother Lode.

Josh Ladd encounters a series of life-threatening situations when he befriends a mysterious young surfer named Duke.

Returning to the Ozark Mountains to visit their grandmothers, Hildy and Ruby encounter old mountain hatreds, danger, and God's marvelous forgiveness.

When Hildy finds a stolen watch concealing a crude, hand-drawn map, she is accused of the theft and must try to clear her name.

When Josh witnesses the sinking of a Soviet sub off the coast of Hawaii, he becomes the quarry of Soviet spies trying to beat the Navy to the sub.

Twelve-year-old Josh and his friends face danger and gain a greater understanding of the importance of winning and losing when their challenger to an outrigger canoe race in the Hawaiian islands tries to win by any means.

A young Christian inadvertently places his family in danger on Hawaii's Kona Coast when he videotapes the dramatic rescue of two drowning children which leads to his father's kidnapping.

Hildy Corrigan, almost a teenager, returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. Fighting anger and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.

Hildy's dream of a happy life with her family and new stepmother is threatened when they travel to California as migratory workers with no money and no available jobs.

Joining her cousin Ruby on a search for Ruby's missing father leads Hildy to a confrontation with wealthy cattleman Ozzie Kessick.

Twelve-year-old Josh Ladd's discovery in the Kauai jungle of a Japanese World War II airplane and its pilot who doesn't realize the war is over leads him on a race against time with a conniving foe.

Several acts of disobedience against his father's orders plunge twelve-year-old Josh into terrible trouble during a search for a long-lost Hawaiian treasure guarded by sharks.

Thirteen-year-old D.J. gets a bad case of "gold fever" when he and Alfred accidentally discover an abandoned--and mysteriously dangerous--gold mine.

D.J. Dillon and his buddy Alfred don't believe in ghosts. So they volunteer to help a local school teacher find out what's going on in an old mansion she has inherited. Peculiar noises and sights shake their confidence. Soon they aren't so sure about ghosts.

D.J. learns a powerful lesson about responsibility and doing what is right.