Independent Publisher of Illustrated Adventures

Tall tales, told true.

Warm, full-color stories for young readers, fully fantastical and stitched so tightly into real history that it all reads as true. Two series. One belief: the best stories are fast, funny, brave, and just a little bit impossible.

A Rockwood Publishing Series · Ages 8–12

The Rockwood Boys

1920s Salt Lake City. Three brothers, Clive, Rocky, and Lee, build flying machines from magazine plans, ride twin motorcycles into the desert after Spanish gold, share supper with a mountain giant, and stand guard over the things they love. Illustrated throughout in the warm, full-color tradition of Norman Rockwell.

Cover of The Rockwood Boys and the Flying Machine

Book One

The Flying Machine

Two brothers, a magazine plan, and a homemade airplane. The summer the Rockwood boys decided to fly.

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Book Two

The Desert Tomb

Twin motorcycles, a dying man's map, and Spanish gold buried deep in the Utah desert.

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Book Three

The Watchtower

A forty-foot tower over the heads of half the neighborhood, and the quietest lesson a father ever taught.

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Book Four

The Mountain Giant

High in the wild canyons lives a gentle giant nobody will believe in, and a hunter who means it harm.

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Book Five

The Thunder Machine

A crate that hums, a box of caught lightning, and a power baron who will do anything to own it.

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Book Six

The Old Guard

A stranger comes to pave the boys' beloved pond, sneering that their grandfather was a nobody. They set out to prove him wrong.

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Book Seven

The Glider

Six summers Clive has ached to fly. When the sky finally comes for him, it comes as a rescue.

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More adventures on the way. This series is just getting off the ground.

A Rockwood Publishing Series · Young Adult

Teenage Monster Hunter

An ordinary town. A hidden war. When Nick Hunter learns that monsters are real and that he was born to fight them, he is pulled into an ancient brotherhood, a thinning veil between the living and the dead, and a battle for more than his own life. A darker, deeper saga for older readers.

Cover of Teenage Monster Hunter: The Seal of Shadows

Book One

The Seal of Shadows

Nick Hunter discovers his ordinary town hides a secret war, and that he was born to fight it.

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Book Two

The Hollow Crown

A fallen hunter, a stolen crown, and a ritual that must not be broken.

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Book Three

The Broken Line

A broken bloodline, a new ally from across the border, and a sacrifice at the cemetery gate.

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Book Four

The Borrowed Breath

When the dead begin borrowing the breath of the living, Nick must learn what he is willing to give.

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Book Five

The Quiet War

The war comes home, and the only way to save the town may be to set it on fire.

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Book Six

The Long Dark

The darkest night of the war, when hope itself is the thing the enemy comes for.

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Book Seven

The Light Behind

Everything has led here. One last stand, and the light that waits behind the dark.

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About the Publisher

Rockwood Publishing was founded on a simple belief: that the best stories for young readers are warm, fast, brave, and just a little bit impossible. We publish full-color illustrated adventures, the kind a young reader finishes in one sitting and an adult quietly reads twice.

The Rockwood Boys began as family stories, handed down across kitchen tables and front porches for three generations, about a real boy named Clive North Rockwood and the brothers he ran the streets of 1920s Salt Lake City with. Teenage Monster Hunter reaches for older readers and a darker kind of courage. Both are built on the same foundation: heart, humor, and the quiet conviction that doing right matters, especially when no one is watching.

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