Duane Ostler: 30 books

Maddie has never cared much for the stars, her world revolving around normal eight-grade life at Centennial Middle School. Then she befriends an exchange student named Asteria, a girl with glowing white skin. But there are a number of strange things about Asteria. Why does she claim she's never...

Blake Drywater and his good friend Donald Poindexter have another strange teacher as a substitute in one of their classes. Tiny little Mr. Flarf looks and acts just like a typical leprechaun, even down to his flowing beard and pot of gold. Mr. Flarf claims he can take them back in time to see one...

Frail, timid Miss Lydia Fairbanks is the newest teacher at Inner City Junior High School, the deadliest school in the state. While the school principal believes she won't last a day, Miss Fairbanks quickly surprises everyone by not only surviving in the midst of her killer students, but actually thriving...

Blake Drywater is plagued by bullies, doesn't like any of his classes, and hates school in general. All of that changes, however, when he learns that his new science teacher is a wizard. Before long his teacher briefly transforms every student in the class into roaches and earthworms, and magically...

In the year 1885, the sleepy little Nevada town of Broken Jaw Junction is a quiet place--until Old Jake finds gold! Suddenly the town is overrun by outlaws, galoots and trouble makers of all kinds, and there doesn't seem to be a sheriff in the old west who can stop them. That is, until...

On Christmas Eve, Archeologist Charles Niebold is searching through the jungles of Belize for an ancient Maya temple full of gold. He has blocked out of his mind the image of his unhappy wife and children about his not being home for Christmas--until he finds the temple he has been looking for, and...

Inventor Uncle Ned has made a startling discovery--that clouds are alive and can be transformed into common objects! He gives his nephew Talmage the assignment to take a transformed cloud with him, in the shape of a pen, to watch it and see what it says and does. However, Talmage soon learns...

Less than two weeks before Christmas the tiny town of Afton is shocked when every resident is sued by a mysterious 'Mr. Noel.' The nut claims to be Santa Claus and is suing the town for wrongfully 'firing' him from his yearly delivery job, since he can only come to people who believe. The town's initial...

Malcolm File is a shunned, mistreated street bum, living his life under the heat vent of an office building—until the day he inherits 30 million dollars. Suddenly everyone wants what Malcolm has, from the lowliest street bum who shared the sidewalk with Malcolm, to the city drug lord from his mansion...

Book 2 of 'The Stewards of Light' series, and sequel to 'My Science Teacher is a Wizard.' Blake Drywater and his fellow unfortunate students at Millard Fillmore Middle School once more find themselves facing an unexpected creature in one of their classes. Because of a sudden 'neck disorder' suffered...

Blake Guv is a starving young attorney fresh out of law school, desperately trying to get new clients. As a last hopeless gamble to obtain some publicity and a few clients, he foolishly enters the race for Governor of his state as an independent candidate. But then a series of unexpected events shove...

George Brown is an ordinary boy, attending an ordinary school, climbing ordinary trees, and eating ordinary pizza--until he meets a bizarre alien known as "The Protector." Suddenly life for George is anything but ordinary. Now George and the Protector must unravel the secret of a fallen...

Many people wrongly feel they should be 'tolerant' of gay marriage and not oppose it, even though it is not something they would do personally. This book explains the falsity of this notion. Gays won the legal right to be left alone in the 2003 case of Lawrence v. Texas. While many feel uncomfortable...

Arguments in favor of abortion are humorously exposed as illogical, by way of compelling (but rather unusual) examples, logical reasoning and historical/legal research. Justifications for abortion which are shot down in this volume are: the 'right' of privacy; the assertion that 'it's my body and...