Robert Elmer has authored several series for young people, among them the "Young Underground," "Adventures down Under," "Promise of Zion," "AstroKids," and "HyperLinkz" books. He began his writing career as a newspaper reporter, and before that served as a pastor. As Elmer once told Something about the Author (SATA): "I think I started getting serious about writing in the second grade.... I wrote a family newspaper. I wrote about things in the neighborhood. Lots of people encouraged me, which was good, and I eventually became a newspaper and advertising writer. But one thing I especially remember was my eighth-grade English teacher, Mr. Little. He wrote in my yearbook that he expected to teach his future students from a book I had written. I never forgot that. For twenty years, what he had said was ringing in my ears. I knew I wanted to write books, I just never knew I had anything to say until my own three kids started growing up.

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