Book Three in the Great Mistake Mysteries trilogy, where an anxious young sleuth tries to protect his favourite animals and his friends A mystery with no violence, featuring a male protagonist with strong, smart girl sidekick, where sleuth helps someone who’s been unfairly blamed Fast-paced, easy read for middle-graders, short at 30,000 words By the author of the Bringing Up Beauty series Author’s books have won the Forest of Reading Silver Birc ...
Book two in the Great Mistake Mysteries trilogy, where an anxious young sleuth tries to protect his favourite animals and his friends A mystery with no violence, featuring a male protagonist with strong, smart girl sidekick, where sleuth helps someone who’s been unfairly blamed Fast-paced, easy read for middle-graders, short at 30,000 words By the author of the Bringing Up Beauty series Author’s books have won the Forest of Reading Silver Birch ...
Blood Brothers is issue-based realistic fiction that draws in YA readers A story for teens about people their age facing difficult choices about their peers, future, and values As a teacher, the author is experienced writing issue-based books confronting harsh topics in a way that appeals to students Jakub’s graffiti is a major part of the novel; graffiti art is an increasing part of our urban landscape and is gaining respect as an art form Ex ...
This four-book bundle collects the adventures of twelve-year-old adventurer and bone expert Peggy Henderson. <br/> <br/> <b>Includes: <br/> <br/> <i>Reading the Bones</i> – #1</b> <br/> Circumstances beyond her control make Peggy move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, B.C. to live with her aunt and uncle. She learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built ...
Peggy is off to a Viking site in North America where she unearths the remains of a brave young warrior. It’s a dream come true for Peggy Henderson when her friend, Dr. Edwina McKay, lets her tag along to the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows National Park in Newfoundland, where Dr. McKay will be teaching archaeology field school for the summer. Peggy already knows a lot about archaeology – having been on three previous excavations – but ...
This three-book bundle collects the adventures of 12-year-old adventurer and bone expert Peggy Henderson. In Reading the Bones , due to circumstances beyond her control, Peggy has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, B.C., to live with her aunt and uncle. She learns that her home and the entire seaside town were built on top of a 5,000-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With the help of an elderly archaeologist, Peggy comes to know ...
An expedition to investigate an old sunken ship teaches Peggy lessons about herself. When archaeologists discover a two-hundred-year-old shipwreck, Peggy Henderson decides she’ll do whatever it takes to take part in the expedition. But first she needs to convince her mom to let her go, and to pay for scuba diving lessons. To complicate matters even more, Peggy’s Great Aunt Beatrix comes to stay, and she’s bent on changing Peggy from a twelve-yea ...
Feeling somehow to blame for her father’s absence, thirteen-year-old Jennifer Bannon struggles to hang on to her dream that he will return and they can be a family again – a dream that doesnt include her mother’s new boyfriend, nights of looking after her little sister or a ninth grade year that is rapidly going down the toilet. Finally after two years of waiting Jennifer learns that her father is back in town, and suddenly the dream seems withi ...
Twelve-year-old Martin Jessup, teller of tall tales and other untruths, cannot understand his sister’s objections to the family’s move from Winnipeg to small-town Ontario. With Dad in the military, moving is a fact of life. Settling into his new home, Martin is intrigued by a deserted house across the street and by an unfriendly neighbour, who seems to be waiting for something to happen. Martin and new friends Granger and Holly form a club that ...
