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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    December 2008
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Full Series List in Order

An American Adventure

1 - Overland Escape (Feb-1989)
3 - Danger on Thunder Mountain (Nov-1989)
4 - Secret of the Howling Cave (May-1990)
5 - The Flaming Trap (Oct-1990)
6 - Terror in the Sky (Jun-1991)
7 - Mystery of the Phantom Gold (Oct-1991)
8 - The Gold Train Bandits (Apr-1992)
9 - High Country Ambush (Sep-1992)
The Desperate Search (Oct-1999)

D.J. Dillon

1 - The Hair-Pulling Bear Dog (Jun-1985)
2 - The City Bear’s Adventure ()
3 - Dooger, the Grasshopper Hound (Jun-1985)
4 - The Ghost Dog of Stony Ridge (Jun-1985)
5 - Mad Dog of Lobo Mountain ()
6 - The Legend of the White Raccoon (Sep-1986)
7 - The Mystery of the Black Hole Mine (Jul-1987)
8 - Ghost of the Moaning Mansion (Sep-1987)
9 - The Hermit of Mad River (Dec-2008)
10 - Escape Down the Raging Rapids (Jan-1989)

Giants on the Hill

1 - Giants On The Hill ()
2 - Shiloh's Choice ()
Cinnabar ()

Ladd Family Adventures

1 - Secret of the Shark Pit (Jul-1988)
2 - The Legend of Fire (Oct-1988)
3 - Mystery of the Island Jungle (Aug-1989)
4 - The Dangerous Canoe Race (Jun-1990)
5 - Secret of the Sunken Sub (Jun-1990)
6 - The Mystery of the Wild Surfer (Jun-1990)
7 - Peril at Pirate's Point (May-1993)
8 - Terror at Forbidden Falls (May-1993)
9 - Eye of the Hurricane (Apr-1994)
10 - Night of the Vanishing Lights (Sep-1994)
11 - Case of the Dangerous Cruise (Mar-1995)
12 - Panic in the Wild Waters (Sep-1995)
13 - Hunted in the Alaskan Wilderness (Feb-1996)
14 - Stranded on Terror Island (Mar-1997)
15 - Tracked by the Wolf Pack (Jun-1997)

Pinkerton Lady Chronicles

1 - Days of Deception (Jan-1998)
2 - Yesterday's Shadows (Mar-1999)
3 - Tomorrow's Promise (Mar-2000)

Book List in Order: 49 titles



  • In search of historic Jesus explores the many baffling mysteries the Scriptures cannot answer. Mysteries now illuminated for the first time by amazing evidence drawn from ancient legend and modern science....



  • She was only nineteen...and totally alone the day she left the mainland for the island paradise of Oahu--and Aloha House. Two broken engagements had shattered her dreams, filled her with questions...questions that could only be answered within the...



  • D.J. rescues an abandoned hound pup from a mountain road and with his best friend, the boys set out to train the dog they named Dooger. But he shows no sign of being a trail hound. About all Dooger chases are grasshoppers, which causes a neighbor to ...



  • D.J. is surprised one night to hear a mysterious hound with a rare bugle voice baying on a trail. The hound dog men of Stoney Ridge would give almost anything to own such a dog. Many try to catch the newcomer; but it always runs alone at night and is...



  • D.J. Dillon's life is suddenly turned upside down when an outlaw bear attacks the family's small farm and kills their livestock. His father has forbidden the lonely boy to have a beautiful collie dog as a companion, but now decides that D.J. should h...





  • D.J. and friend Alfred know there are no such things as ghosts until Grandpa disappears while helping a local school teacher restore an old mansion. It supposedly is occupied by the ghost of a Chinese man from California's Gold Rush Days. The boys se...



  • Josh Ladd is excited about his father's secret assignment in Hawaii. The family trip takes an unexpected twist when their family's hotel room is burglarized and an Hawaiian treasure map is stolen. In a well-meaning effort to help recover it, Josh dis...






  • Josh Ladd's father is kidnapped after Josh inadvertently video tapes a fugitive crime boss. In frantic efforts to find and rescue their father, Josh and his sister race an erupting Hawaiian volcano while a massive lava flow threatens the building whe...



  • D.J. and friend Alfred face a life-threatening situation in the mountains when D.J. is bitten by a flea that might have carried the deadly bubonic plague. To save D.J.'s life, the boys have only a few days to reach a doctor. A raging wildfire prevent...






  • Josh Ladd and best-friend Tank Catlett, both 12, are exploring a remote Hawaiian rain forest when they stumble upon the wreckage of a Japanese World War II plane. A screaming stranger suddenly bursts from the jungle and chases the boys with a sword. ...





  • Twelve-year-old Josh and his friends face danger and come to a greater understanding of the importance of winning and losing when their challenger to an outrigger canoe race in the Hawaiian islands tries to win by any means...



  • A mysterious surfer named Duke saves twelve-year-old Josh Ladd from drowning off the coast of Hawaii. But when Josh tries to befriend him, Josh finds himself and his family threatened by dangerous men. Soon he is chased onto a cliff by those same ...



  • When twelve-year-old Josh witnesses the sinking of a Soviet robot submarine off the coast of a Hawaiian island, he becomes the quarry of Russian spies racing to beat the United States Navy to the sub and its secrets...







  • Struggling with school and a lack of money during the Depression, seventh grader Hildy is overwhelmed when the little girl she cares for after school is kidnapped, but God steps in in a remarkable manner...



  • Hildy Corrigan is thrust into unexpected jeopardy and learns a valuable lesson about God when she tries to help her benefactor learn who is stealing gold from his mine in California's historic Mother Lode...




  • When Hildy Corrigan's unemployed father announces the family is moving away from their friends just before Christmas, 1934, Hildy feels anger and pain; but adventure beckons when she and friends track a stolen horse in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, wh...




  • A monster wave crashes over the highway. Josh Ladd, his dad, and Tank Catlett dash to higher ground. A nearby house begins to slide down the cliff and they hear a cry for help. Someone is trapped inside! Just before the house slides into the sea, th...



  • A petty quarrel and efforts to foil poachers who are after some rare birds seem unimportant as members of the Ladd family separately struggle to survive when a powerful hurricane hits the island of Kauai....



  • Staring open-mouthed toward the mountain, Josh Ladd and his friends study the strange lights atop Kamakou Peak, parading down the winding trail toward the ocean. Could they possibly be the legendary night walkers? Despite strict warnings, Josh and...



  • What first appears to be a dream cruise quickly turns into a nightmare for Josh and Tank when they discover the school bully, Kamuela "King" Kong, is on the same ship! But there's far more trouble than that on deck! When a mysterious fugitive hast...






  • Dragging his sister’s friend, Alicia Wharton, into the boat and away from the angry whale, Josh Ladd promises himself that it’s the last time he and Tank Catlett will risk their lives to rescue this inconsiderate tomboy. But time and again, th...




  • Josh Ladd is suddenly stranded on a remote Alaskan island when the plane he is traveling in crashes. And it doesn't take long to realize that he's not among friends! He finds himself cold, hungry, bug-bitten, and plaglued with problems with those aro...




  • Being a spy for the famous Pinkerton Detectives suits Laurel Bartlett's adventurous nature. During the Civil War, Laurel had used her charm and cleverness to penetrate Confederate lines and bring back military intelligence for the Union army as a way...



  • Tells the stories of a boy who tries to save his family's farm by bringing a load of wheat to Richmond; an abolitionist girl volunteering at a makeshift hospital in Richmond; and an escaped slave who returns to Richmond to rescue his mother and siste...



  • Spying for the famous Pinkerton Detectives suits Laurel Bartlett's adventurous nature. During the Civil War Laurel used her charm and cleverness to penetrate Confederate lines and bring back military intelligence for the union army. Now the war has e...



  • In Virginia during the Civil War, Gideon wants to break away from the farm where he has grown up; Emily, a newly orphaned Yankee girl must try to uphold her beliefs among the Confederates; and Nat, a slave boy, looks for the opportunity to escape...



  • NAT TRAVIS a teenage fugitive slave, races the clock in two highly risky ventures: One, to help his mother and sister escape to freedom. Second, to rescue his younger brother who is chained to a slave coffle to be sold in the Deep South. GIDEON TU...







  • Laurel has promised to take one more assignment as a Pinkerton Detective before she marries Ridge. But before she can start a new case involving the building of the transcontinental railroad, she discovers the murder of someone extremely close to her...



  • EMILY, a Northerner who hates slavery, is stranded at Briarstone Plantation in Virginia. She longs to cross Civil War battlefields to her home in Illinois. But when friend Gideon tells her that they are all in extreme danger from a planned slave upri...



  • How Far Would You Go To Prove You Were Grown-up? Galen, a ten-year-old orphaned Philistine boy, wants nothing more than to be a man. Surely, if he becomes Goliath's shield bearer, he'll win the acceptance he desperately craves. But earning...



  • D.J. is furious when a pack of dogs attack his helpless dog, Hero, which D.J. had tied to a post while he was in a store. Fearful that Hero will die at the veterinarian's, D.J. considers how to take revenge against the dogs he learns are owned by Bea...



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    Shiloh Laird has one ambition--to build the California stagecoach line that her murdered husband had dreamed of, but she finds San Francisco in 1850 to be a rough town, especially for a widow expecting her first child...



    • / Action Adventure
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    D.J. Dillon rescues a motherless bear cub which seems like a fun pet at first, but as the bear grows his love of city life constantly gets him into trouble that impacts D.J. The local bully, Nails Abst, claims the cub is his, and adds to D.J.'s troub...



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    After the shocking tragedy of her husband's death, Shiloh Laird finds herself alone in lawless San Francisco, caught up in the power struggles of the men who want to control the harsh, new land of California...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    • / Action Adventure
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    When D.J. Dillon lets his dog, Hero, loose and he doesn't come back, D.J. is afraid Hero might be shot by the angry father of a child recently bitten by a rabid dog said to be roaming the mountains, so D.J. goes looking for Hero and finds a problem t...



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    Book three of the Giants on the Hill series finds Clay and Shiloh Patton the focus of sinister, high pressure tactics, pushing them to choose a side in America's erupting civil war-a gripping plot of history filtered through fast-paced fiction tha...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lee Roddy has published 49 books.

Lee Roddy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Hermit of Mad River, was published in December 2008.

The first book by Lee Roddy, In Search of Historic Jesus, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Lee Roddy has 5 series.