Dale Smith: 11 books

What the Parrot Told Alice is a book of environmental fiction that gives students opportunities to learn about parrots, preserving the environment, and the rain forest in an easy-to-read, fantasy story form. Teachers who use this guide will find the following features to supplement their own valuable...

In 1969, young men of draft age faced two choices: either fight an unpopular war in Vietnam, or immigrate to Canada. This is the story of a young man who chose Canada.When twenty-year-old draft dodger Scott Yale Knight crosses the Canadian border with his girlfriend and her toddler daughter,...

What the Orangutan Told Alice is a book of environmental fiction geared toward an audience of students from sixth through twelfth grade. It gives them an opportunity to learn about orangutans and their fight for survival as an endangered species, preserving the environment, and the rain forest in...

When Alice and Shane, two American teenagers who are visiting Indonesia, follow a gibbon into a Borneo rain forest, they meet orangutans and other forest dwellers threatened with extinction. During their adventure they meet scientists working to save them. Alice and Shane visit an orangutan rehabilitation...

How far would you go to protect your superpower? Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and...

Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered: men and women who possess extraordinary abilities that set them apart from the rest of humanity. The rare few who do become Empowered face a stark choice. They must either join the Hero Council, following any and all orders in the service of protecting humanity,...

What do you do when a conspiracy suppresses super powers? Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her...

I am supposed to destroy the Scourge, but the alien song of artificial life threatens the Earth. I infiltrated the world’s most dangerous Empowered criminal group, the Scourge, and stopped a psychopath from destroying a city. Now, the secretive government agency I work for wants me to help...

The world believes only a few can possess superpowers, but what if that’s a lie? Mathilda Brandt, one of the rare Empowered, has just learned her missing sister is also one. Even more shocking, Mat’s sister belongs to a hidden cult that believes anyone can possess a superpower, in defiance...

What happens when a simple two-part cargo-hauling job with a tight deadline pays too well? Captain Alisa Marchenko was ready to settle down to a quiet life aboard the Star Nomad hauling cargo with her finance, the cyborg Leonidas, and her daughter and crew. But, when a layover on Sherran...

The world sings to me but I shut it out, because my parole forbids me from using my power. I went to prison because I didn’t want to join the Hero Council, become one of the so-called “good guys” and give up my freedom. I just wanted a place where I could be free, with other Empowered...