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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2009
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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  • The Adventures of Hardy Belch chronicle the exciting and unbelievable adventures of a normal 12 year old boy and his 240 pound telepathic dog. Hardy and Tiny (his best friend and dog) find themselves in many predicaments but as a team and best friend...



  • The Adventures of Hardy Belch chronicle the exciting and unbelievable adventures of a normal 12 year old boy and his 240 pound telepathic dog. Hardy and Tiny (his best friend and dog) find themselves in many predicaments but as a team and best friend...





  • It is easy to like people who are, act and behave just like we do. It is harder to like people who behave differently and who we see as being selfish. A real friend is someone who accepts the way you are. A real friend helps you when you are in need....



  • Most of my books deal with social issues. I have been asked if I couldn’t write something that is more light hearted. We have all known children that become “experts” on things they like and we have been amazed at how much they can learn when t...



  • Tiny, the 240 pound telepathic dog, is Hardy Belch’s best friend. Tiny did actually start out as a tiny puppy sired by a heroic guard dog. This story is about Gracie the guard dog and explains how her job impacted Tiny. Tiny's birth and what m...



  • Hardy Belch is a 12 year old boy with an unusual companion, a 140 pound telepathic dog. Hardy finds himself embroiled with a bully and doesn't know what to do. Hardy is plague by a homework stealing bully whose size and attitude are pretty darn scary...



  • Hardy Belch is a 12 year old boy with an unusual companion, Tiny, a 140 pound telepathic dog. A mysterious, missing gold train provides a treasure hunt for Tiny and Hardy. Over one hundred years after a gold train goes missing, Hardy and Tiny find th...



  • A light hearted look at an 8 year old girl and her love of rocks is the theme of this book. Good, loving parents and a healthy hobby are the subthemes of a story designed to delight and amuse both the child and the parent as they read....






  • This story is a cautionary tale of concern and illustrates why it is important for parents to know what their children are doing on the Net and with whom they are doing it. I believe the Net is a good thing but parental oversight is crucial for the s...



  • This story has its roots in a popular Western Pennsylvania urban legend. Reality is most often stranger than fiction and this tale is a blending of both. Hardy Belch finds that fear of the unknown may lead to prejudice and intolerance. He discovers t...



  • Domestic violence exists. That is a simple disturbing fact. It isn’t something that should be ignored or swept under the rug. It is imperative to face this problem, acknowledge its existence and do our best to aid those who are exposed to it. Child...



  • Dementia is a frightening thing to adults so it is hardly surprising that it’s frightening to children. Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer's is...



  • There are tons of action adventure elementary school age books out there. I don't see enough of them emphasizing girls as the hero. We need to make sure that 50% of our population grows up knowing they have an internal hero. If we can encourage girls...



  • THE GIRL WHO LOVED ROCKS was followed by THE GIRL WHO LOVED DRAGONS. Charlotte, the main character in both books is back as well as Igneous her dragon. Igneous is an alien AI, who was on a mission of exploration when inadvertently abandoned on the pl...



  • Divorce is hard on kids! Kids are resilient and if provided explanations they can normally weather the storms of divorce. This book is to help kids realize that their lives can continue in a positive way, changed, but still positive....



  • This book’s goal is to provide children an understanding of what a policeman does and some of the stresses that police face. It is also meant to humanize police and show that they are fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. The media tends to emphasi...



  • Daddy is Gone is a reaction to the death of a close friend of mine years ago. It is merely that, a reaction, it does not in any way describe the impact of his death. It does however include feelings that accompanied that experience. Having had classe...



  • Much has been made about the dramatic increase in autism. Something to note is that autism as a term has been replaced by the expression autistic spectrum. Various disorders have been place on a spectrum of behavior which has differing levels of impa...






  • Growing old is better than the alternative. Overall we have an aging population that means that children frequently have great grandparents as well as great grandparents. Kids are curious and this book attempts to explain some of the factors of aging...



  • Adopted children often wonder about their origins and why they were put up for adoption. Often they fear that there is something wrong with them, fearing their birth parents didn’t want them. It is vital to make sure that adopted children understan...



  • An uplifting story of how a terrified puppy earns his warriors name when escaping a horrific puppy mill. Can this tiny warrior rescues his Mom and shut down the dreaded puppy mill? Can a tiny warrior pup help our veterans deal with the changes in the...



  • Kids can be cruel, sometimes intentionally but most often unintentionally. This book provides a simplistic explanation of psoriasis. When children understand that psoriasis is not contagious and have even a rudimentary understanding of the disease th...



  • Tommy is down and has felt sad and upset for weeks. He Mom tells him that his Dad has battled depression for decades. He and his mom decide that he may be facing depression and should see a professional....






  • The family of today may not be the same as the family of yesterday. Regardless of structure, if love and nurturing are present, if children are valued and protected it is a family. This book hopes to show that differing family structures need not be ...



  • There are tons of action adventure elementary school age books out there. I don't see enough of them emphasizing girls as the hero. We need to make sure that 50% of our population grows up knowing they have an internal hero. If we can encourage girls...









  • 2020 has been a trying year with Covid-19 and with racial unrest. A pandemic tends to focus your thoughts and recognize your mortality. Seeing someone murdered by a cop makes you realize that we, the human race, need to take a long hard look at who w...



  • Kiku is a recessive gen-engineered warrior living on the tough streets of a fringe planet barely out of restricted status. Unbeknownst to Kiku is the wealth of abilities lying within her, waiting for the right trigger to bring her potential to full b...



  • The title was pulled from the deep archives of my memory. A place where my buddy Terry and I would go to play and imagine. To us, it was unknown to anyone, anywhere. This was the ideal setting for Hardy and Tiny to make a momentous pre-historic disco...



  • A boy and his dog dream of adventures in their own backyard. The dream seems so real that they see themselves as the notorious Captain Dirty Beard and his fearsome sidekick, No Thumbs Ned. The two take down a greedy politician and bring economic reli...



  • The Doan Brothers ran rough shod over Bucks County, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. There was always a question whether they were loyal to the King or just home-grown thugs. It is known that they pulled off a daring robbery in 1781, thei...



  • Kiku and Jarvan, along with their wardogs and AI companions, are tasked to bring peace to their galactic quadrant. Their AI Shard Destroyer Sam and AI Battle Shuttle Melody transport them to unlikely places to combat pirates, rogue AIs, bizarre alien...



  • Stumpy is real and lives on a golf course in sunny Naples, Florida. Watching him swim, his missing leg doesn't seem to slow him down. His fictional story starts when Stumpy meets Stanley a distraught spoonbill whose nest and mate are being terrorized...



  • Alden loves trucks but his favorite truck is Gladys. Gladys and her driver, Mike, collect trash. Alden becomes Mike's hero when Alden jumps into action and demonstrates remarkably mature responsibility when faced with a crisis....



  • Dizzy is a fairy or pixie to some people. She loves hanging out with her friend Amelia, a human, Tina the Tooth Fairy, her bestie, and Lucky a leprechaun. The three fairy creatures seldom let a human see them, but Amelia is special. She loves people,...






  • Alcohol addiction is an insidious disease. It is a disease that fractures families and harms everyone in the family. It is important for the family and especially the children to know that it is a disease. The family can not cure the alcoholic. The f...



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    A puppy mill is often a dirty, ill-maintained factory for producing ill bred and diseased puppies. As much as America claims it has a love affair with dogs, puppy mills are still tolerated. The mothers are kept in cages with no access to veterinarian...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William G. Bentrim has published 41 books.

William G. Bentrim does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Parent's Struggle, was published in September 2023.

The first book by William G. Bentrim, The Adventures of Hardy Belch, was published in December 2009.

No. William G. Bentrim does not write books in series.