Karen Cossey


Genre:

  • Children's Fiction

Skills:

  • Readings
  • Workshops (children/schools)

Branch:

Bay of Plenty

Location:

Tauranga

Publications:


The Trespassers Unexpected Adventure

Kids who Dare.

Villains to Fear.

Parents who Care.

This is an appealing, heart-warming story with fun kids who go looking for friendship and find adventure and mystery they weren’t expecting.

Trespassing Logan gets caught out abseiling alone down a cliff by a girl who calls herself Captain Happy. She refuses to tell Logan her real name, and her fun-loving parents go along with the game. Baffled, Logan joins the mystery family for a day full of adventure. Not only are they mysterious, they are wealthy beyond anything he knows, as a race in a Ferrari proves.

As night time approaches, they are joined by Logan’s foster family, including his two foster brothers, Cole and Nate, and foster sister, Poet. As the families enjoy stories around a campfire, little do they know they are being watched by two shipwreck pirates who want to land on their beach and smuggle in some shipwrecked gold into the very house Captain Happy is staying in. The criminals are going to have to deal with Captain Happy, Logan and their families. It’s up to their ringleader to come up with a plan.

Unwittingly, the Crime Stopper kids walk straight into his trap and Cole is captured. Determined to get him back, the kids sneak through a tunnel that collapses on them. All looks lost when they are discovered and caught themselves by the ruthless pirates. Even Nate's ninja-like martial art skills can't help. How will they escape and capture the pirates now?

The Trespasser’s Unexpected Adventure is the first book in the Crime Stopper Kids Mysteries Stories series. This fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny story is popular with both boys and girls ages 9-14, and appeals even to reluctant readers.

The Adventures of Crimson and the Guardian


Crimson, the last of the secretive and elusive unicorns, steps into young orphaned Kinsey’s path and life. Within minutes Kinsey finds herself battling a huge and dangerous snake-like river monster with nothing but a magical cloak and a dagger. Some how she survives, and with her sense of adventure awakened, she agrees to travel with Crimson on an incredible journey towards more danger and peril than she could ever imagine.

 

Kinsey must overcome a band of vicious monsters called jagotchies before rescuing the kidnapped leader of the dwarfs and helping save the life of a young troll-like creature, a Shadow-Blood.

 

As she travels closer to the battlefield where the nation’s enemy is gathering his forces, she has to avoid wolf-like creatures called mungas intent on tearing her limb to limb, escape the clutches of the small but deadly bobaho and kill a giant savage dragon to rescue Crimson from a band of shape-shifters.

 

At every encounter Kinsey discovers more about the cloak’s magic secrets, and surprises herself with her own abilities. But war is looming, and old enemies and warriors are gathering their forces. Has she learned enough to be able to defeat the Snake and the deadliest enemy of all, the disease-spreading Pegasus of Peril?

 

Not your typical fantasy book for young children, this adventurous unicorn book for girls and boys age 8-10 has plenty of action and adventure from not only unicorns, but also dragons, trolls, elves, dwarfs and fantasy monsters. A new adventure in every chapter makes this an exciting fantasy book for both girls and boys.

The Con Artist's Takeover: The Mystery of the Unco-Nerdo School Teacher

Kids in Despair
Villains lay a Snare
 Parents Aren’t Aware

Crime-stopping kids Logan, Meeka, Poet and Nate find themselves
caught up in in a deadly crime ring mystery in Meeka’s mansion-like home.

When Logan, Nate and Poet visit their new friend Meeka,
they were expecting some fun times.
Instead Meeka is obviously hiding something—

she even acts like she wishes they weren’t there.

 

Meeka has a secret she can’t share, and things turn from bad to desperate
when her father ignores her. Soon the evil mastermind from the kids past
 closes in on them and Nate is kidnapped.

Logan, Meeka and Poet know what they must do.
Go and rescue Nate.
No matter what the risk.