My Published Books
My new book, Charlie 2nd To Search, was written especially for children ages 9-12 and is now available at your favorite retailer!
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The first book in the series, Charlie, the Mystery-Solving Great Dane & His Quick Traveling Partners, is called Charlie 1st To Find. I wrote the series for children who love to read mystery stories about animals, especially interesting big dogs who like to solve mysteries with his best friends, the quails.
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Charlie & his buddies hope you create your own fun adventures!
Tanya Atkinson talks about her new book, Charlie 1st To Find
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A Great Dane helps his family find missing items despite interference.
When Sara loses the tablet, he must overcome his size and work with his friends to find it.
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​Charlie, the Great Dane, wants to help his family find the missing tablet. But how can he do that? He's too big and Paws, the family cat, dislikes anything associated with him, including the quails.
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Sara's misplaced her tablet, and even though she's looked all over the house, it's vanished. She's learning times tables and misses her favorite math game.
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Charlie hates when his humans are sad and figures out a way to help. He sneaks his Quail Buddies into the house to search for the missing tablet. They soon realize Paws wants his Buddies for lunch!
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Running out of time, Charlie loses hope of finding the missing tablet, but his buddies push for one more organized search.
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Will they find the missing tablet in time, or is it lost forever?
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Charlie’s confidence soars when he and the Quail Buddies achieve success in their first case. ​
He pushes through his fears, learns new detective methods, and takes on the next case!
​Charlie, a mystery-solving Great Dane, is ready for the next case when Bill’s favorite sunglasses go missing and recruits his quick traveling partners, the quails.
Stripes, the raccoon, wants quail for dinner. A chase through the alley leads Charlie to defend his territory against the nasty neighborhood predator. Stripes, scared off by the large dog, leaves vowing to return for her quail meal.
Searching for the sunglasses proves more challenging and after an exhaustive mission, the team must face defeat. They haven’t found them and the Peterman family will be home soon.
Charlie doesn’t want to quit because something terrible will happen to Bill so he pleads with his friends to continue until the very last second.
Will Charlie and his Quail Buddies find the missing eyewear before Stripes has dinner?