While the news continues to deliver updates about staying indoors and practicing social distancing, it’s now important to have ways to keep you and your family entertained. With all of the extra time you have, now is the perfect opportunity to pick up a new book and get reading. Check out these Austin authors and some of their best works.
Holes by Louis Sachar
In this classic novel that was turned into a film, Stanley Yelnats is suffering from a family curse that is sending him to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake. The camp has the boys spending their days digging large holes to help the warden search for treasure. Venture through the tale as Stanley tries to uncover the truth and redeem himself and his family’s name.
Chronal Engine: A Prehistoric Time-Travel Adventure by Greg Leitich Smith and Blake Henry
Max, Kyle, and Emma are sent to live with their grandfather that speaks of a time machine. The children refuse to believe the old man until Emma goes missing at the exact time that their grandfather said she would. Now the teens must head back to the Cretaceous period in order to find Emma and bring her home.
Wild Violet by Ariel C. Horn
This western read focuses on Violet Corntassel’s journey from southwest Missouri to San Angelo just four years after the Civil War. Along the way, Violet runs into trouble and has to entrust her life to a young cowboy to help her finish her journey safely and without being taken by the infamous Smith clan.
The Charge by Sharon Bayliss
Texas becomes a monarchy in this Wild West novel, and the King of the Texas Empire is on the warpath to find a pair of twins who are long-lost members of the Texas royal family. Warren has to find his kidnapped twin, and he has to decipher what is true and what is false in a past that he doesn’t remember. Does Warren take down the King with the help of his friend Lena or does he succumb to the royals and walk away from the family he never knew existed?
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