4 Books Published by Windstorm Creative on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Some kids just disappear. Their fates forever unknown. But Colin Thatcher, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Oakland, California, and his best friend Ralpa, an awesomely fat Tibetan boy, discover the fate of some of the missing kids when the two of them are captured to be used as actors in twisted films, strange comic books, and VR games. The secret film studio lies deep underground in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and the place is a carton hell of spying cameras and no sense of night or day where kids are drugged to make them behave. Performance is rewarded with hamburgers and fries, and the ultimate punishment is being "put to sleep." Ironically, they are led into the trap by Tyger, a Burmese boy who escaped from this slavery a few months before. Now, Colin, Ralpa and Tyger must not only fight their way out of this prison, but also free the other kids. With the help of an Asian youth gang, they plan to bring down this dirty empire.

Fourteen-year-old Brandon Williams is blond and blue-eyed with movie star good looks, a generous allowence, and a nice house in Santa Cruz… but he’s not happy. He wants to grow up to be a writer but his life offers him no inspiration. When Brandon makes the unexpected decision to attend public school, he knows no one and finds himself among the outcasts. His first friends are Travis, one of the few black kids at school, and maybe the fattest dude on the planet, and Bosco, a chubby, world-class surfer-dude, seemingly lost in space. At their sides Brandon sees a whole new world and experiences prejudice for the first time. It might be politically incorrect to dis a kid for being black, Latino, Jewish, or gay, but it’s fine to make a kid’s life an endless hell just because they’re fat?! There is something seriously wrong with that. Will "Phat Acceptance" be Brandon’s inspiration and cause to fight for? With "Health-nazi" parents and a secret cyber-place of "gainers, feeders, admirers, and encouragers," this big, big world is fascinating, sincere, and most excellent.

Evil always lingers in a land where men have enslaved other men. And that evil is discovered by Kodi Carver, a chubby, fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Cleveland who spends his summers in the Old French Quarter of New Orleans. There, with the help of Raney Douglas, his alligator-wrestling, bayou cousin, he assists his magical Aunt Simone with Voodu ceremonies for tourists… but maybe he should have studied his Voodu lesson more carefully? When Newton, an eight-year-old banger, tries to gun down Kodi right on his grandmother’s New Orleans doorstep, Kodi and Raney discover the real power behind the Skeleton Crew: The hateful ghost of a slave-trader. Kodi’s own gang of Voodu Dawgz must now fight the ghost on his own turf—a storm-lashed midnight graveyard—before he drags the rival gang into a fate worse than death.

When an American humanitarian embarks on a mission to Haiti in the hopes of lending financial support to a local orphanage, her curiosity about some of the residents opens doors best left closed. Finding herself immersed in a frightening and unfamiliar culture of Voodoo and black magic, Tracy must learn to trust the unseen, the unknowable and the miraculous in order to discover the truth about Jérémie, Haiti and those who dwell there.