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Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario’s James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father.

Short-listed for the 1998 Sheila A.

In the second installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, Ghost Moon follows young James Doolen's story after he discovers the terrible truth about his father in Written in Blood.

Jim Doolen discovered his father's fate in Written in Blood and met Billy the Kid in Ghost Moon.

In this bonus book in the Desert Legends Trilogy, Jim Doolen has his final encounter with the infamous Billy the Kid.

Set in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico during the 1870s, Written in Blood follows young Jim Doolen as he attempts to find some trace of the father who abandoned

On a visit to a seaside town in Australia, fifteen-year-old Sam meets Annabel, who works at the local museum.

Set during the last year of the American Civil War, this grim portrayal of the brutality of war through the eyes of a young soldier, Jake Clay as he joins the Union Army in the spring of 1864, dete

The Third Act deals with the intercultural struggles faced by Chinese students studying in North America in the present day and by an American playwright, Neil Peterson, caught up in the Nanjing Ma

Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams.