All books using the keywords: Chuck Kramer

Carl wants to impress Adele who’s just not into him. Instead of impressing her, he gets them kidnapped. And this isn’t just any kidnapping — the two eighth graders are swept away in a time machine to medieval England by a mad scientist. Carl and Adele must escape his clutches and survive long enough for his time traveling family to rescue them. If they don't kill each other first.

A New York Lamentation: A Play About Slavery. Six historical figures from New York's slavery era meet to tell their stories. From supporters of slavery to abolitionists to formerly enslaved men and women, each has to reckon with the evil they witnessed and, in some cases, participated in.

Kurt Kessler is dead. He can deal with that. He's in a strange ethereal city. He can deal with that, too. He can even deal with the fact that he's been murdered. But the fact that he can't find his dead wife, Hilda, is more than he can handle. Where is she, and why has she not joined him? More importantly, why were they killed in the first place? To find out, Kurt enlists the help of his living son Emmett and an executed murderer named Bernie. Together, they work to unearth his wife's secrets. But will it be enough to find her and allow them to live together in the afterlife?

Can a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian from vastly different worlds find common ground? Can they see past their mistrust of each other? Based on "Nathan the Wise," G. E. Lessing's 18th century play about the crusades, Nate explores political and religious divisions today and one path toward healing them.

Epiphany pageants can be stressful. How do you make it fun for cast and audience alike? How do you make a successful pageant with a very small or very young cast? Included here are fourteen pageants for casts of varying sizes and abilities. Whether your actors can handle long, complex lines or no lines at all, there is something for every group. Each pageant combines the powerful message of Epiphany with accessible humor and is easily adapted to local needs.

The biblical story of Abraham and Isaac reads like a novel — a sordid, twisting, confusing novel. It takes some unraveling and imagination to make sense of it. This informal commentary, written as a supplement to the novel, "The Hiding of Isaac," sorts through this family soap opera that makes up much of Genesis.

What if the greatest test God gave to Abraham wasn't a test at all? What if God didn't ask him to sacrifice Isaac? What if Abraham wanted to kill him?

A school shooting survivor is castaway on an island inhabited by ghosts where he helps them find peace, and they help him heal his broken soul. Fifteen year old James Carter has already survived a school shooting, witnessed a mob murder, and been thrown overboard from a cruise ship. By the time he washes up on a deserted island, his body is alive, but he feels dead inside. His outlook changes when he meets six ghosts who were all murdered on the same night. Through their friendship, he starts to find new meaning in life. He might even want to rejoin the world of the living. But first, he has to survive.

Wolfhart Hammett is Haviland Middle School’s smartest kid with the stupidest name. If that weren’t bad enough, Franceska Fresca, a park ranger at the childhood home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is suspected of stealing the famous Springwood Falcon. When she mysteriously disappears, things look worse. With the help of his best friend Brucie Hornapple, Wolf must try to find the Falcon, clear Franceska’s name, and possibly solve a murder. All while navigating the new and terrifying world of girls.

How much harm can a tube of toothpaste do? When it's lost somewhere back in history ... a lot. 12-year-old Carl Noble and his family must go back in time and travel through four continents in search of the tiny tube before it can cause untold damage. But can they find it without getting killed? More importantly, can they travel together again without killing each other?