Dan Walker

• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction

• Nov-2020
• / General Fiction

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction

A coming-of-age story of loss, adventure, violence, and redemption

Fourteen-year-old Sam Barger’s life changes forever when his father dies and his family is forced to move from a remote homestead and fishing camp to the busy city of Anch...

• Jan-2012
• / Fantasy

At the root of every story there's a forest. And in that forest there's a lake. And near the forest there's always a castle. In every castle there are people. And in people there is always magic. What could go wrong?...

• Jan-2012
• / Fantasy

In every story there is a forest, and in every forest there’s a lake, deep as a wound. Near the forest is always a castle, and in every castle there are people. And in people there is always magic. . . . And in magic there is but one story -- a boy...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction

The year: 1580. The scene: Queen Elizabeth's glittering Court. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, has just lost his heart to the Queen's newest maid of honor. Their forbidden love inspires him to compose 25 sonnets and a 5-hour play about his Dark Lady....

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction

Santana Storm is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 southern California. It’s a scary time for 16-year-old Stan LeMaster as men go off to war, leaders are assassinated and gangs are organized. Earthquakes and mysterious Santa Ana winds put Stan and ...

• Nov-2007
• / Historical

Dan Walker answers the questions Mark Twain avoided: What if Huck Finn carries out his promise, at the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to “light out for the Territory”? Twain himself got sixty-two pages into the prairie and lost intere...

• Nov-2004
• / Historical

Douglas County, Missouri: a quiet, peaceful, out-of-the-way place during the Great Depression. Something terrible happened, forcing young Brown Sluder and his family to pack up everything they owned and move out West, a chance for a new start. But al...