The newest book in the Lukas Encounters series is a thrilling addition to the saga. The Lukas Encounters, by Stuart Adams, is a three-book Young Adult series published by Rock’s Mills Press. Set in Alberta, Lukas Johnson is a teenager who is pretty much normal—except that paranormal things happen to him.
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The second book, Lukas and the Wîhtikow Rex, also revolves around The Farm. The cousins have completed Grade 8 and Lukas’ summer visit takes them to Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum where they meet Mekwen Calf Robe, a researcher working on her Ph.D. in paleontology. The youths are fascinated when she tells them about the K-T Boundary, a distinct sedimentary layer about the thickness of a deck of cards that marks the end of the Cretaceous Period—and the layer is visible in Alberta’s Badlands.
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He ages by a year with each novel, beginning with Lukas and the Ghost Train as he’s completing Grade 7. June has already been a difficult month for him—not only is he waiting for the end of school when he’ll visit his cousin KC on “The Farm”, but his uncle has recently purchased another horse. KC and Lukas will each have a horse to ride. Summer adventures beckon.
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The series concludes with Lukas and the Ice Dragon, introducing a character-development component. He’s completing Grade 9 in Edmonton, and the book opens with him wrestling with a moral dilemma—how to atone for failing to support his best friend, Amar Patel, during a racial incident directed at Amar. Seeking inspiration, Lukas hikes a mountain named for his late grandfather’s elite parachute battalion, only for the hike to be interrupted by a grizzly bear attack. The bear is driven off by Baax, a 400-year-old dragon who breathes icy ‘coldfire’—but blood from Baax’s wound creates a telepathic connection between them, and Lukas must now work with the dragon to secure the very future of humanity.
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