Michael Cantwell: 18 books

Fourteen-year-old Peter Collins cannot help but wonder if it was all just a dream. Even though it has been two years since he traveled back in time to ancient Mexico with his friend, Rosa Guzman, two questions continue to haunt him: Why hasn't Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent who guided Rosa and him...

How far would you go to tell the truth? Congressman McAdams made a promise to his dying grandfather to always tell the truth. Now he must decide between exposing a national secret or move up the political ladder and stay quiet. He has three days to decide while he sits in jail. Life is not always black and white and besides when is the truth not really the truth? What are your limits?

Alex and his pal have started a band. How do you tell your best friend that he can't sing and will be replaced with the cutest girl in school? You ask President Kennedy for advice. Like most teenagers, Alex must deal with broken hearts, teenage angst, and escape summer chores. However, unlike...

In this third installment, Caeles Novo has been removed as leader of the Council. He now seeks revenge for those who have taken his power to remove souls and is on a journey to return his disciples back to their original mission.

Stu Edrich was a typical teenager in search of an identity. He quickly learns life does not always turn out the way you expect. He follows his passion to create music and live life in a positive and ethical way. However when life takes a wrong turn he loses his faith and identity. This is a story about relationships and in finding ways to establish peace in your heart and soul.

Have you ever wanted help surviving freshman year in high school? Alex Schuler relies on the past Presidents of the United States.Alex's grandfather removed a magical book from the White House written by the men who founded the USA. When Alex reads from it, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George...

Caeles Novo continues his journey of seeking broken souls that he started in “Soul Intentions”. Caeles is now the leader of his disciples and must discover the mystery as to why so few soul stealers remain on earth. He learns the high cost of both leadership and success. Caeles is assigned to...

You, the ungrateful fool, who dare to destroy your soul. We are the keepers of all things pure and righteous. In taking your soul, we are destroying the evil you have so carelessly allowed to enter your most prized possession.Caeles Novo and his camera are in search of you.

From a young writer trying to win a girl to a boy grappling with confusion about sin, each protagonist in this collection of nine short stories experiences a journey, an encounter, or a revelation that transforms them. In Rosas Gift and Other Stories, author Michael Cantwell presents these...

After moving from town to town, Philip Nason and his family finally settle in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit. Its the summer of 1937, shortly after Philip turns eleven. A lonely child, he inhabits a world of daydreams, filling notebooks with his cartoon fantasies. He discovers hes unable...

Peter Collins and Rosa Guzman, having passed their first round of tests in ancient Mexico, are again summoned by the Plumed Serpent who flies them back in time to the first morning of the world. There, the sixth graders witness the origins of human sacrifice as gods throw themselves into the sluggish...

Peter Collins is a shy sixth-grader who thinks his worst problems are being bullied by his stepfather and his classmatesuntil he awakens one night to see a giant feathered serpent hovering over his bed. Terrified beyond belief, he has no idea that he and his classmate, Rosa Guzman, are about to time...

Max the mouse didnt mean to run away from home. He had a good gig with his owner, Melissa. He was well fed, and he liked riding on the little girls shoulder when she walked around the house. But Max was really curious to see what was on the other side of the fence in the backyard. Once over...

The Perfect World exists in the far distant future and is ruled by an old man called the Grand Exterminator. In this heavily polluted world people wear oxygen masks and silver vinyl jump suits. Theyve never seen flowers or grass. Robots do their work and their thinking. Many laws exist, but the chief...