Charlie Small Series

Charlie Small’s fifth journal describes his adventures in a strange subterranean world.

Help! Charlie is trapped miles below the earth’s surface in the utterly unbelievable UNDERWORLD. Will he ever escape? Read this journal to find out!

You’ll also discover . . .
• How he escaped a hair-raising encounter with a terrifying Troglodite!
• What to do if you get trapped in the web of a spitting Spidion!
• Why the king of Subterranea is so blooming miserable!

Middle graders, especially boys, will connect with this next installment about the boy adventurer who has been traveling for 400 years!

The fourth amazing, astonishing, all-action adventure journal of Charlie Small!

Having escaped the clutches of the evil Puppet Master, Charlie joins Wild Bob France’s gang, the Daredevil Desperados of Destiny, whose sole aim is to get rid of the outrageous outlaw Horatio Ham and his band of hired gunslingers. Charlie, aka the Lariat Kid, brings down Ham’s posse of gunslingers, takes part in a daring bank raid, is caught up in a ferocious gunfight, lands up in jail, and is about to be sacrificed to the Great Bird of Death.

Will Charlie escape? Will Ham be defeated? Only by reading Charlie’s extraordinary diaries will you find out!

Gentleman adventurer Nick Ward has tracked down a third installment of Charlie Small’s incredible life story. The battered journal was found beneath the seat of a bus shelter in Pimlico. Passed into the hands of a collector of dubious repute, it took swift work from Nick to prevent the story from vanishing forever!

Having finally escaped from the perfidious pirates, Charlie travels though icy waters and hair-raising mountains and encounters man-eating bats, a wild dog whose bark is worse than his bite, and ultimately finds himself ensnared by the evil Puppet Master, a figure of pure unadulterated evil. Will Charlie manage to escape his clutches, or will he remain a puppet forever, never to adventure again?

Charlie Small is a keen amateur explorer. His interests include climbing trees, collecting things, playing computer games, and football. He also enjoys conversing in the secret language of the gorillas. His present whereabouts is unknown, but we understand that he’s hoping to be home in time for tea.

Charlie Small’s second journal of his adventures was found encased in ice, high on a glacial plateau in the Himalayas. It details even more remarkable deeds and thrilling acts aboard the Jolly Roger with the dastardly lady-pirates of perfidy–and a lot more besides. Charlie Small is a keen amateur explorer. His interests include climbing trees, collecting things, playing computer games, and football. He also enjoys conversing in the secret language of the gorillas. His present whereabouts is unknown, but we understand that he’s hoping to be home in time for tea.

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life–and still only be eight. And yet . . . there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal and some of its boggling content for analysis. And only one conclusion could be drawn. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true! In his first adventure, Gorilla City, Charlie wrestles a deadly river croc, rides a steam-powered rhino, and becomes tribal chief in a city of gorillas.