Jake's Great New Year's Day Adventure: Jake's Big Adventures, #3

By J. William Turner

Jake returns from Norway on New Year's Eve. Next day, despite more jet-lag, he goes looking for his best friend, Cooper, plus Ben and Ken. They end up at the home of aboriginal elder, Grandpa Lionel, who, after hearing of Jake's visit to the North Pole, decides that the boy's jet-lag makes him suitable for some 'mind travel'. He places Jake in a trance, before sending him back to the Dreamtime, where Jake witnesses and reacts to several stories of aboriginal lore, which also teach him important life-lessons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. William Turner
• Release date: Aug 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781370183975

J. William Turner

J. William Turner (aka James Turner) was born in Reading, England, forty miles west of London, in the late 1950's, and migrated with his family to south-eastern Australia in the mid 1960's. The youngest of three children James spent the last seven years of his education at a boys' private school in the coastal city of Geelong. During his time here, he became a senior N.C.O. in the school's army cadet unit, having undergone basic, practical military training for promotion, on a regular army base for two weeks in 1971, as a fourteen-year-old, at the end of the nineth grade. After finishing the twelfth grade, he attended university to study science, but discontinued his course after two years. In the early 1980's James gained his private pilot licence, was a volunteer operational member of St John Ambulance for ten years, and travelled to many parts of inland Australia and overseas, including two visits to the U.S.A.. He also penned the initial draft of Storm Ridge, the first of the four installments of Dangerous Days, in 1979, loosely based on a similar school hike he did in 1970 as an eighth-grader. Later, in 1989, Paddle Hard was drafted, based on an actual murder in Geelong in the mid 1970's, and his own experience at canoeing. Another ten years later, he drafted Outback Heroes after several visits to several parts of the vast Australian outback. Enemies Within was written just four years afterwards to give closure to the unanswered questions in Outback Heroes, and is set back in London, near to his ancestral roots. James has always liked putting pen to paper, and has had two articles published in Australian aviation magazines (1996 and 2008). Over a six-month period from January to June, 2004, James wrote the first three stories of another, four-part, fictional autobiography, yet to be published, entitled Blades, about the traumatic and difficult teenage years of a 'top-gun' helicopter pilot named Julian. Set in the late 1990's, in Darwin, Melbourne, the central Australian outback, and southern California, Blades also reinroduces the three main child characters from Dangerous Days, now adults aged in their late-twenties, and their relationship with Julian. These three stories are entitled Street Kid, High Country, and California Dreaming. The final story, Aftermath, was completed in two-and-a-half months just midway through 2008, to bring Julian's life story almost to the present day.

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Jake's Great New Year's Day Adventure

Jake's Big Adventures, Volume 3

J. William Turner

Published by J. William Turner, 2022.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

JAKE'S GREAT NEW YEAR'S DAY ADVENTURE

First edition. August 20, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 J. William Turner.

ISBN: 978-1370183975

Written by J. William Turner.

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JAKE’S AMAZING DREAMTIME ADVENTURE.

(The sequel to Jake’s Crazy Christmas Adventure).

By J. William Turner.

Copyright 2017.

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Jake is a young Australian boy who lives in the small tropical town of Coconut, a place with lots of unusual people and opportunities for fun and adventure.

Today is the first day of January, New Year’s Day. The previous day, New Year’s Eve, Jake and his mum returned from their Christmas holiday in Tromso, Norway, staying with Jake’s Uncle Lars, Aunt Mary, and twin cousins, Bennie and Kennie. For young Jake, it had begun in such a crazy way. Being tired with jet-lag on his first night there after such a long flight, he had gone to bed early. But just before midnight, he had been awoken by one of Santa Claus’ elves, and flown in a sleigh at ‘warp-speed’ to the North Pole to actually meet with Santa for just a few minutes. And when he told his mum after he returned, she said that it was the jet-lag making