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    Haunted Waters
    Haunted Waters
    Haunted Waters
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    Haunted Waters

    By Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry

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    A crazy, wild ride from a deserted mining town makes it clear that someone’s after Bryce and Ashley Timberline.

    Will they survive long enough to find out who it is?

    Watch out! The Timberline twins are on the loose. Bryce and Ashley are ATV-riding tweens from Colorado who unearth action-packed mystery and adventure wherever they go. From clearing the name of a local miscreant to thwarting a gold-stealing heist, the twins’ growing faith and the strong example of their parents guide them through even the most life-threatening situations. With the trademark page-turner style used by Jerry Jenkins and Chris Fabry in the Left Behind: The Kids series, these fast-paced books will keep even reluctant readers on the edge of their seats. Readers will definitely be hooked! Perfect for ages 8-12.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateMay 11, 2012
    ISBN9781414375816
    Haunted Waters
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    Jerry B. Jenkins

    Jerry B. Jenkins is the author of more than 180 books, including the 63,000,000-selling Left Behind series. His non-fiction books include many as-told-to autobiographies, including those of Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Meadowlark Lemon, Nolan Ryan, and Mike Singletary. Jenkins also assisted Dr. Billy Graham with his memoirs, Just As I Am. He also owns the Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild, which aims to train tomorrow’s professional Christian writers.

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    • 4/5
      4 STARSThis was a fun short adventure novel with a ending that makes you want to get the nextbook. I got this book from Amazon.Love the characters. Seem real to me and kept my attention.A mom and her three kids move to colorado. She is a writer and has a new husband.Her first husband was killed in a plane crash. She was pregnant with thier third childat the time. The oldest are twins.Ashley and Bryce Timberline they are 13.They now have a older step sister and a new stepfather.Thier is a bully at school that is threatening them. He wants to take their 4 wheelersthat they ride to school each day.They go with thier stepdad for a weekend getaway to see some of Colorado history and to bond. When a musuem gets robbed the day they are thier.It gets dramatic but in a good way. I will read more books like this. Good and clean book can be read by anyone2005 PUB Tyndale House Publisher
    • 4/5
      Bryan and Ashley are twins who have just recently moved to Colorado after their real dad has passed away. They go on a weekend trip with their new stepfather and find out more about a burglary than they would like to know.The authors have done a wonderful job with character development. We have a family of characters who have normal conflicts, but still care about each other. What I find unique is that Ashley sometimes discusses her Christian beliefs, but they are not an overbearing part of this character. The book flows well and is hard to put down due to this. The normal kid stuff, such as having a bully at school, makes this story easy for young adults to relate to.Honors and Awards: None
    • 5/5
      Adventure, excitement and danger seemed to follow Ashley and Bryce Timberline wherever they go. First, their dad died in a mysterious accident. Then they moved to Colorado with their mom and baby brother so they could start their lives over. It was in Colorado that their mom met and fell in love with Sam (Bryce and Ashley call him The Cowboy), who has a daughter age 16. Ashley and her twin are 13. Their baby brother is only four. Being in a blended family was tough for a teen. So one weekend, Sam suggested a cabin in the mountains adventure with just the four of them--the twins, Dylan and Sam--while their mom stayed home to finish a book she was writing. They had skiing, sledding and tubing to look forward to, satellite hook-up in the cabin and their own pinball machine. To top that off, they were going to view a large gold nugget on display nearby and a replica of a mine shaft where gold was found. That's when all the adventures began. Haunted Waters is told in the first person with chapters alternating between Bryce's point of view and Ashley's point of view. Their adventure includes thieves, suspicious people who follow them, break-ins, and eventually high speed chases and a life threatening accident. But in the conclusion, the reader is left in suspense when the twins discover a secret about their step-dad. This book is perfect for middle grade readers. Ashley and Bryce face relevant situations that other pre-teens and teens would understand, such as bullies at school, and enjoy great laughs at the witty exchange between the twins. I especially liked how the book's high interest level but lower reading level makes it appealing to a wide age range. This is a book and series I would want my own children to read. The adventures are fun, the language and attitudes of the characters are clean, while the young people and adults are not perfect or unrealistically "too good to be true." Since Ashley, Bryce and their mom are Christians, they live their faith out through their daily lives rather than preach about it. They may falter from time to time, but they learn and grow through their experiences. I am reading and reviewing this book for the Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. summer reading program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
    • 3/5
      Chapters were too short and disjointed. Cliffhanger ending disappointing and unnecessary.

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    Haunted Waters - Jerry B. Jenkins

    He didn’t want to kill them. He just wanted the evidence back. If they made it to the police with the picture, he was dead. Back in jail.

    If only those annoying kids hadn’t forced this. Twins. A boy and a girl. And their little brother and dad. Now they would all have to pay.

    He could see the fright in the kids’ eyes when he pulled beside their Land Cruiser. The boy held a cell phone to his ear.

    He rammed his vehicle into theirs and sent them swerving. The dad got the Cruiser under control and sped up.

    He matched their speed and pulled beside them again as they approached a lake. This was it. He would take care of the problem right here. He turned and forced them off the road.

    The Land Cruiser hit a patch of snowy grass. Taillights flashed, but it was too late. The SUV flew into the air and plunged into the lake. Water engulfed the vehicle and it slowly rolled to one side like a sunning sea lion, then sank.

    He slowed to watch frigid bubbles rise. No one could survive this. Some mother would cry tonight.

    He clicked his radio as he drove away. The situation’s under control.

    Part 1

    CHAPTER 1

    Ashley

    ASHLEY

    I didn’t want to move to Colorado. I didn’t want my dad to die or my mom to ever get married again either. And I sure didn’t want her to get religious all of a sudden. But all those things happened to my brother and me, so I guess you’ll just have to get used to it like we did.

    My name is Ashley Timberline, and my younger brother (by 57 seconds—but he’s still younger) is Bryce. We’re almost 14, if 217 days is almost. Our last name used to be Bishop, but our new dad adopted us, so now we’ve got his name. Good thing Mom didn’t name me Fern or Tabby. Imagine that with my new last name. Mom said we didn’t have to take the new name, but I would have felt bad hurting our stepfather’s feelings.

    My youngest brother, Dylan, who is four, was born before our real dad died. He’s a pain, but he’s a lot cuter than Bryce, and I can get him to do stuff just by offering him a couple of Smarties.

    We also got a big sister thrown in with our new dad. Leigh’s 16 and learning to drive. She has a boyfriend named Randy, but Bryce and I call him The Creep. He’s actually kind of cute, with hair he never combs and big muscles. But we give her a hard time about him anyway.

    Randy played on the varsity football team in the fall and now varsity baseball this spring. He’s always getting his name in the paper, and once there was a picture of him making a big tackle. I wrote The Creep takes down his opponent underneath it, and Leigh got mad. Not as mad as the time Bryce dipped her hairbrush in the fish tank, but mad enough to tell her dad. He came in and sat on my bed and grinned for about five minutes, then left.

    The hardest thing we’ve ever done is move from Illinois. When we drove away from our little house, it seemed like we left every friend we’d ever had. The new people were already moving in, which was sad. We’d written our names in the cement by the driveway. Half of Dylan’s car collection is still buried in the backyard. The cheap swing set my mom bought at a garage sale is still under that big, leafy tree.

    My friend Carolyn said she was jealous of me getting to move out west, making a new start. I would have traded places with her in a second. There were enough new things going on without having to move 1,000 miles. Mom said the Lord was guiding her even back then before she knew him. But whoever the Lord was, he wasn’t doing anything but making me cry myself to sleep in the backseat of our Ford Taurus Wagon.

    I stopped sobbing when we hit the Illinois/Iowa state line and snorted myself to sleep. I woke up long enough to eat in Missouri, then cried again after dessert—a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard. Bryce didn’t sleep at all and said I didn’t miss much on the drive, except a guy hitchhiking near Salina, Kansas. Bryce said the guy had a beard longer than we were tall and he was sitting by a dead deer with a banjo. (The guy had the banjo, not the deer.)

    When we got to Colorado, the first thing Dylan did was throw up. That made me think things were going to be really yucky here, but Mom said it was only the altitude—living so far above sea level where the air is thinner. Less oxygen for some reason. If you ever come here, you might throw up too.

    A year later Mom fell in love with The Cowboy, as we called Sam back then. They were married, and we moved to his place. Then Mom became a Christian, and not because of our new dad, because he wasn’t—and isn’t—one. Bryce and I thought Mom was just going through a holy phase, but when it stuck, we got interested too. Finally, Bryce and I became Christians.

    I thought I’d always been one, but that’s another story.

    CHAPTER 2

    Bryce

    BRYCE

    My cell phone vibrated with only a few minutes left in my last-period class. I pulled it out and hid it under my desk, because you’re not supposed to use cell phones during class. I looked at my sister Ashley a few rows from me. We have first and last periods together—band and English.

    The screen on the front read Bryce’s Phone, showed the time as 2:14, and had a little envelope telling me I had a text message. I coughed as I punched the Read button so the teacher wouldn’t hear the beep, then scrolled through the message.

    Surprise for you and Ashley. Come home as fast as you can. Also, move snow shovel from porch. Somebody’ll get hurt.

    See you soon.

    The message was from Sam, my new father. Ashley and I haven’t felt right about calling him Dad since our real one died. Sam said if we never call him Dad, it would be okay, but if we wanted to it was all right too.

    Those last six minutes dragged so slowly I could hardly stand it. Giving a kid English during last period ought to be a crime, punishable by torture if you have gym right before it.

    Mrs. Ferguson went on and on about how important next week was for us. As you know, you have the day off tomorrow and then the CATs begin Monday. Make sure you take advantage of the long weekend.

    We’d been hearing about the Colorado Aptitude Tests for a whole year, since the last time we had taken them, so this was not news.

    Get plenty of sleep Sunday night, she continued. Try not to do anything that would sap your energy. We want you all bright-eyed Monday.

    Ashley rolled her eyes at me.

    I held up the little beanie cat that had been passed around the room to motivate us and grabbed it around the neck.

    Ashley looked like she was fighting a smile.

    I glanced at the clock again. I think when the sun gets high in the sky, it loses some kind of gravity pull and everything slows down. Whatever, the seconds t-i-c-k-e-d by in agony until the bell finally rang. I tossed the cat to Mrs. Ferguson, and it landed on her desk next to her big, yellow thesaurus.

    Have a nice weekend, Bryce, she purred.

    You too, Mrs. Ferguson.

    Ashley followed as I raced into the halls of Red Rock Middle School. I threw my books in my locker. CATs kept teachers from giving us homework—that’s about the only good thing about them. I slammed my locker and saw Aaron Heckler at the end of the hall.

    CHAPTER 3

    Ashley

    ASHLEY

    Bryce froze when Boo Heckler called his name. The big eighth grader stood at the end of the hall under one of the stuffed cats the school had hung there for the assembly earlier in the week. The drama teacher had even dressed up in one of the costumes from the musical Cats for it.

    Everyone calls Aaron Heckler Boo because that’s what he yells at every sporting event. Every referee,

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