Haunted: The Knight in the Shadows wins the 2010 New Mexico Book Award for Juvenile Book

Nov. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Children's book author Chris Eboch's novel The Knight in the Shadows won the 2010 New Mexico Book Awards in the category Juvenile Book (grade school to junior high school). According to the awards website, "The purpose of the New Mexico Book Awards is to honor great books from New Mexico and the Southwest. The best of Southwestern literature judged by a distinguished panel of scholars and librarians."

The Knight in the Shadows is the third book in Eboch's Haunted series, published by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. The Haunted series, for ages 8-12, is about a brother and sister who travel with a ghost hunter TV show and try to help the ghosts. In The Knight in the Shadows, a Renaissance French squire protects a sword on display at a New York City museum. The series started with The Ghost on the Stairs and The Riverboat Phantom. Eboch's other books include The Well of Sacrifice, a middle grade Mayan adventure, used in many schools, and the inspirational biographies Jesse Owens: Young Record Breaker and Milton Hershey: Young Chocolatier, written under the name the M.M. Eboch, plus nonfiction for children and teenagers.

For more on Chris Eboch, visit www.chriseboch.com.

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I write children's books and articles on writing. My children's books include the Haunted series: The Ghost on the Stairs, The Riverboat Phantom and The Knight in the Shadows, plus a Mayan historical adventure, The Well of Sacrifice.