Showing results by narrator "Michael Pauley" in Teen & Young Adult

Why Do We Have to Go to School? is a 10,000 word fictional dialogue between a teenage boy and his father. A lively and fascinating debate evolves after the son asks, "Dad, why do we have to go to school?" The father discovers that this isn't such an easy question to answer, as the son turns out to be well-prepared, witty, and clever. Still, the father rises to the challenge, coming up with a series of good responses. Just why do we have to go to school in this day and age where information is right at our fingertips?

When Seithe and his siblings are relocated to Cape Town for the summer, he has no idea what is in store for him. He's forced to sanctify the vamporium, dive for his halo, fight sea monsters off Cape Point in a raging storm, and calls from the past the ghost ship which haunts Cape Town. For Seithe there is one thing important in his young life, finding the truth of who and what he is. It's only when he crosses paths with the human Tasmin that the truth dawns on him.