Novels
- Someone Was Watching (1993)
- The Last Man’s Reward (1996)
- Framed in Fire (1999)
- Haunting At Home Plate (2000)
- Colder Than Ice (2003)
- Thin Wood Walls (2004)
- Deadly Drive (2005)
- A Piece of the Sky (2007)
- Epitaph Road (2010)
- Fast Backward (2018)
- Rocking-Chair Moon (2021)
Collections
- Dark Starry Morning (1995)
- Uneasy Pickings (2017)
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David Patneaude Books Overview
Someone Was Watching
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and uncovers evidence that something entirely different has happened to her.
The Last Man’s Reward
‘Albert and his four friends are living in company owned apartments just until their parents find houses. When the boys acquire a rare and valuable baseball card, they decide to hind it in an abandoned mine’ ‘Kirkus Reviews’. ‘The strong characterizations and an airtight plot make for…
a truly exciting adventure’. ‘Booklist’.
Framed in Fire
Peter has been sent to Resthaven Hospital because his stepfather thinks he’s emotionally disturbed and dangerous to his younger half brother, Lincoln. But Peter loves Lincoln. In fact, he’s the only one who knows about Lincoln’s dreams about Peter and a man with wings. And Peter thinks there’s more to his father’s death than his mother is telling. With the help of Lincoln and some friends at Resthaven, Peter begins a journey that could change his life forever.
Haunting At Home Plate
With only a few games left in the regular season, Nelson just wants to play baseball and maybe, one day, realize his dream of pitching. Then his manager is suspended and two players leave the team. On top of that, it seems that the park where the team practices may be haunted. Nelson convinces his cousin Mike short for Michelle to manage his team so the boys can stay together. It’s Mike who tells them the story of Andy Kirk, a boy who long ago fell from a cedar tree to his death whil watching his older brother play ball. When messages to the team begin to appear in the dirt near home plate and are signed, A K, the team must decide what to make of them. Is the ghost of Andy Kirk trying to tell them something? And should the team do what the messages suggest?
Colder Than Ice
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Josh Showalter, an insecure and overweight sixth grader, hopes for a new start when he transfers to a school in northern Idaho, but he and his new friends are soon the target of a cold hearted bully.
Thin Wood Walls
Eleven year old Joe Hanada likes playing basketball with his best friend, Ray, writing plays and stories, and thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday. But his world falls apart when Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor. His country goes to war. The FBI takes his father away. And neighbors and friends in his hometown near Seattle begin to suspect Joe, his family, and all Japanese Americans of spying for the enemy. When the government orders people of Japanese heritage living on the West Coast to move to internment camps, Joe turns to the journal his father gave him to record his thoughts and feelings. Writing journal entries and haiku poetry offers some relief as Joe struggles to endure life in Tule Lake War Relocation Camp days filled with boredom, concern for his father, and worry for his brother, who joins the American army to prove the bravery and loyalty of Japanese American citizens. Thin Wood Walls is a powerful story of a boy who grows up quickly in a changed world.
Deadly Drive
Nine years ago, a hit and run driver killed Casey’s mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the identity of the driver. Complicating her feelings, every year on the anniversary of her mother s death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope full of money. Is it blood money from her mother s killer? Casey, who shares her mother s passion for basketball, is busy with practice and her new team. Still, she finds time to spend with her beloved neighbor, Megan, who helped care for her when she was younger, and with Megan s daughter Dulcie. When it looks like Megan s computer might contain a clue to the identity of her mother s killer, Casey feels confused and betrayed.
A Piece of the Sky
Russell’s summer seems doomed. He’s stuck in small town Oregon without anything fun. Then a legend about an old meteorite envelops him and he makes a dangerous trip into the mountains to find the meteorite, rumored to be rare and valuable.
Epitaph Road
2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system from governments to sports teams, and causing both universal and unimaginable grief. In the face of such massive despair, women were forced to take over control of the planet and in doing so they eliminated all of Earth’s most pressing issues. Poverty, crime, warfare, hunger…
all gone. But there’s a price to pay for this new ‘utopia,’ which fourteen year old Kellen is all too familiar with. Every day, he deals with life as part of a tiny minority that is purposefully kept subservient and small in numbers. His career choices and relationship options are severely limited and controlled. He also lives under the threat of scattered recurrences of the plague, which seem to pop up wherever small pockets of men begin to regroup and grow in numbers. And then one day, his mother’s boss, an iconic political figure, shows up at his home. Kellen overhears something he shouldn’t another outbreak seems to be headed for Afterlight, the rural community where his father and a small group of men live separately from the female dominated society. Along with a few other suspicious events, like the mysterious disappearances of Kellen’s progressive teacher and his Aunt Paige, Kellen is starting to wonder whether the plague recurrences are even accidental. No matter what the truth is, Kellen cares only about one thing he has to save his father.
Dark Starry Morning
A collection of six stories by the author of Someone Was Watching follows the lives of young people who enter the unknown, such as Tommy and Eleanor, who take a school bus ride to the verge of eternity.
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