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DANGER'S EDGE:Wildfire at Camp David, my middle grade adventure book, will be released on September 1st, 2010 by HarperCollins Children's Books.

   
 
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Just once Luke Brockett would like to do something slightly dangerous, but when your father is the President of the United States, that is not an option.

   

Always surrounded by Secret Service agents and kept in a bubble of safety, Luke sees Camp David, the presidential retreat in the woods of Maryland, as the only place where he can almost be normal. For one week in August, Luke's mother has arranged for Luke and two friends to 'experience nature', if they can only manage to ignore the armed guards and the Secret Service agents all around them.

The experience comes to a quick end when disaster strikes. Luke and his friends are trapped inside, left on their own, the Secret Service agents incapacitated, forcing the three to outwit security systems designed to be unbeatable in their attempts to escape before it is too late. 

 

 

Check out my other website for middle grade and young adult book recommendations:

kidsadventurebooks.com

 
 

 


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I am represented by Caryn Wiseman of Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She can be contacted at caryn@andreabrownlit.com

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People often ask where I got the idea for this story. I wrote it in early 2008 while the primary elections for the U.S. presidential race were taking place.

 
 

I’ve always been fascinated with politics, and as a writer, fascinated by other people’s lives. Several of the candidates had young children or grandchildren, and this gave me the idea for a story involving the son of a U.S. President. Like most writers, I don't know why this particular plot came into my head, but I'm glad it did.

 

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