YA and Teens
Last Ride
Orca Book Publishers
Sixteen-year-old Tom Shields is struggling with guilt and a ghost. He killed his best friend, Logan, in a street-racing accident a year ago. As he tries to make amends to Logan's girlfriend and keep his promise to never race again, Tom is haunted by his dead friend. He thinks Logan is trying to tell him something. Not only that, since he faces huge medical bills from the accident and may have to give up his car, the pressure to race is almost unbearable.
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Hannah's Touch
Orca Book Publishers
When sixteen-year-old Hannah gets stung by a bee, she has a near-death experience and, while out of her body, meets her dead boyfriend, Logan. Strange, yes, but even stranger is the fact that she now has the power to heal. Hannah can't figure out why this is happening to her. Then she finds out Logan has a purpose in mind for her new gift. And it's a purpose Hannah can't bear to face.
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Exit Point
Orca Book Publishers
The Year's Best, 2006, Resource Links
PSLA Top Forty
Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving, he wakes up, only he’s dead. With the help of his guide, Wade, and the spirit of his grandmother, he realizes he has taken the wrong exit – he wasn’t meant to die. His life had a purpose – to save his sister – but he took the easy way out and he failed. Now, before he can move on to the afterlife, he has to try and save his sister from a future no child should face. He gets one chance. And this time he cannot fail.
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Finding Cassidy
HarperTrophy Canada
Junior Advisor's Pick, Chapters/Indigo, 2006
When is your dad not your dad? "You were conceived under exceptional circumstances." Sixteen-year-old Cassidy can hardly believe it. As she struggles to understand that she’s the product of a ‘clean and businesslike arrangement’ and her biological father is nothing more than a sperm donor, Cassidy is doubly devastated to learn the man she calls dad has just been diagnosed with a fatal disease. When she blurbs out the news at a party, she faces some shocking consequences. On top of it all, Cassidy realizes she may never know who she really is.
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Lesia's Dream
HarperTrophy Canada
Winner of the 2006 Kobzar Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award
Shortlisted for the Snow Willow Award
Shortlisted for the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian homeland to flee to Canada. Dreaming of wealth, security and fields of wheat, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada free from poverty and rumors of war. But the 160 acres of hardscrabble prairie look nothing like the wheat fields of her dreams. And even though there is no fighting in her new country, World War One follows them there.
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