J William Turner: 15 books

Jake is a young boy from Australia with an adventurous mind. After having a very strange dream the previous Easter about going on a magical hike with Ken and Ben, two aboriginal friends, Jake is hoping to meet Santa Claus at the North Pole when he flies to northern Norway with his mother to spend...

This story is a sequel to Jake's Crazy Christmas Adventure. Jake is a young Australian boy with a mind for adventure. It is the day after returning home from a Christmas visit with his mother to relatives in northern Norway, where he was secretly taken in a reindeer sleigh to the North Pole by an...

Jake is a young boy living in a small tropical seaside town called Coconut. On the first morning of Easter school holidays, he goes on a big adventure with a backpack full of hiking gear and a wish to live off the land. Along the way, he meets strange people doing strange things as he wanders around...

In the final stages of recovery from his severe burns four years earlier, Julian, now in the eleventh grade at a private school, is celebrating his seventeenth birthday. Due to a compromise, he has obtained his fix-wing licence, and is now about to commence his rotary-wing (helicopter) endorsement....

During Easter, three months after escaping the drug traffickers on the lake in Dangerous Days II (Paddle Hard), the three boys, Wesley’s mother, Pam, and English exchange student, Emily Pontington-Hunt travel to an outback sheep property near Broken Hill owned by Rhonda Adamko, an old friend of...

Kendal Kirby is a morbidly obese fourteen-year-old boy living in Melbourne in a somewhat dysfunctional relationship with his widowed mother after his father's suicide. Taunted and tormented at school by his peers and some teachers, he is missing out on a happy and fulfilling adolescent life, having...

Dangerous Days...The four-part autobiography of a photojournalist.Part 1 STORM RIDGE.Wesley Auld, his best friend Graham Finlay, worst enemy, Scott Willis and sixty other classmates take part in a hike up a mountain track in the Victorian high country in late September during a Year Eight school camp....

Australian teenager, Wesley Auld, his best friend Graham Finlay, worst enemy, Scott Willis and sixty other classmates take part in a hike up a mountain track in the Victorian high country in late September during a Year Eight school camp. With Graham’s help he rescues Scott and nine others after...

Grateful for the rescue of their sons, Colin and Dale, Julian has been invited by their parents to their home in Los Angeles for a two-week visit during his September school holidays. He arrives in L.A. to be met by the whole Clifford family, except Colin, who is in hospital with complications. He...

Julian returns home Los Angeles to face a storm of controversy over the dangers he had faced flying helicopters at the fire front whilst under eighteen, originating mainly with California's child welfare agencies. He also a plague of bad memories of what he had seen and felt during that time. These...

Julian Moreland, aged almost 13 years lives in Darwin with his widowed father, Craig, a colonel and helicopter flying instructor in the army. They have a close relationship, sharing a love of fishing and flying in helicopters. But Craig, who is in his late forties, has been in the military for thirty...

Jake is a young boy from the east coast of Australia who lives in the small tropical town of Coconut. Like all young boys with big imaginations, he loves to have fun and adventure, and Coconut is just the place to be, with many other children to play with and unusual grown-up people to teach them...

Having survived the blizzard together and settled their differences in Dangerous Days I (Storm Ridge), Wesley, Graham and Scott are a tightly-knit trio. They are going on an overnight canoe trip on a lake during the following summer holidays in January with Wesley’s teenage cousins, Dwight, Linda...

Blades....The four-part autobiography of a rescue-helicopter pilot Part 1 STREET KID Julian Moreland, aged 12.75 years, moves from tropical Darwin with his widowed father, Craig. to Melbourne. A series of traumatic events finds him an orphaned homeless street kid in hospital recovering from burns...