The Cooper Kids

A mystery as old as the desert sands... When teenagers Jay and Lila Cooper and their archaeologist father travel to Nepur, an uninviting land of deserts and danger, they must search to uncover the truth behind an ancient legend. Locals claim that inside a dark cavern called the Dragon’s Throat...

A cry for help from a sinking island... A rescue mission leads Jay and Lila Cooper to a doomed South Sea island where nothing is as they expected. Instead of a primitive civilization, the Coopers encounter a busy colony with a mysterious leader claiming to be Adam MacKenzie, a missionary once...

An angry terror lurks at the bottom of a dark pit... Jay and Lila Cooper are back for another adventure, this time in search of a young treasure-seeker whose ambitions drove him to the bottom of a pit, never to return. In their struggle to understand what happened to him, the Coopers learn of a...

Time is running out on a desperate rescue mission... After an argument with her father, a sullen Lila Cooper boards an Air Force flight from Japan to the U.S. Her brooding is interrupted when a sudden hijacking leads to a scuffle and an explosion, causing the plane to plummet toward the Pacific...

The soldiers stiffened at attention, but there was still a stirring in the ranks. Their faces held wide-eyed fear. Field Marshall Idi Nkromo turned with deliberate casualness and looked across the barren expanse of desert — the same direction the army was looking. His saber fell from his...

SHRIEKS! FLUTTERING! She screamed and covered her head as countlesslittle shadows darted around her . . . Carvies! The pit was full of them. And Lila was surrounded by hundreds of the strange flying slugs. Lila and Jay Cooper have joined their dad on a mission to the jungles of Central America...

Two vague shapes were coming toward Jacob Cooper, floating and drifting through the ruins like wisps of smoke. Dr. Cooper jumped up, “Jay! Lila! Are you there? Can you hear me?” In 1885, the Murphy mine struck gold. According to legend, Annie Murphy killed her husband out of greed. Just...

“This is going to be a tough one, Dr. Cooper. I don’t know of anyone who’s ever flown a plane blind, much less landed it.” Dr. Cooper looked through the binoculars at his son in the Cessna. “Well . . . there’s always a first time.” Fourteen-year-old Jay Cooper is enjoying the view...