Winner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's IllustrationThe little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows everything about the place she lives -- her road, her school, the forest where she plays...

“Jurassic Park meets Jungle Cruise in this rollicking adventure!” Rick Chesler, author of Golden OneA legendary creature guards a lost city of wonders.When a satellite photograph reveals the location of a legendary lost city deep in the Congo River basin, journalist Mackenzie Moore knows it is only a matter of time before its secrets are revealed to the world. In order to get there first, she needs someone capable and crazy enough to take her there.Treasure hunter a...

After Micah Stone loses a fight with three thugs higher in his homeworld's social order he becomes a military man. First he serves on his homeworld until a cowardly commander orders him kicked out rather than face his own lack of honor. Next he joins the League Drop Marines where he learns the horrible truth about his former unit: it is dirty and it routinely commits atrocities no civilized society would condone or tolerate. Next Micah turns a blind-side surprise attack against the League ...

When Micah Stone left work late one night he had no idea he started down a path that would change the fates of more worlds than his.Micah Stone is a poor man working on the toxic world of Caustik, a world whose society is sharply divided between highcarders who have everything they want and lowcarders, like Micah, who do not. After working late Micah finds himself on an impromptu date with his lovely coworker Jenn. Their evening is rudely interrupted by three drugged-up highcarders ...

Jason Taggart is a junior high student in the small town of Wisdom, Arizona. His life is full of study, friends and the lovely Darla Jansen on whom he has a major crush. Follow along as he works to gain her eye and obtain her favor.Things change on a trip to a shooting competition outside Wisdom. Jason learns the kids outside are different from himself and his friends. Never is this more obvious than when he, Darla and two others are mugged. With their lives threatened, Jason and D...

The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them. The Great Storm decimated those who would conquer her then set loose creatures of shadow, twisted caricatures of those wanton spell-weavers, to devour any who dared survive.Now, over two thousand years later, Mankind has again grown but this time in fear and humility. Those few left a...

Matt James, the first Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved television show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season and confronts matters of race, opportunity, and his biracial identity head on.When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit...

Rebellion in Wisdom! The near-disaster in Phoenix spawned far-reaching consequences. Now Jason Taggart and his special group of fellow students know how bad the world really is. They're aware of the choices they must make in the next few years but as yet that is still in the future. Their present is still upon them and resentment festers among them. The over-arching Brolly Corporation is using them for social experimentation while trying to keep them dutifully in line.Now pushed ove...

Jason Taggart has grown tired of the town of Wisdom. After learning the purpose to which the town was built he and his fellow students tried to live up to the goals set them. The shadowy Company, though, always changed the goals when the students attained them. Now fed up with the experimentation Jason, his girlfriend Ellen, his friend Drew Barnes and the other students demand changes. With little choice and facing the loss of their Wisdom program, the four directors finally listen and mak...

Werewolves, 'shaggies' in company parlance, are less of a problem than they could be but more than they should be. Left to themselves they like to form motorcycle gangs and prowl the nation's interstates. They consider themselves the free-est of the free, they do what they want, they party down and they always live for the moment. But for the fact that they gladly kill and eat anyone who irritates them they wouldn't be a threat to humanity.Jason Taggart, company recruit, encounters ...

The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them. The Great Storm decimated those who would conquer her then set loose creatures of shadow, twisted caricatures of those wanton spell-weavers, to devour any who dared survive.Now, over two thousand years later, Mankind has again grown but this time in fear and humility. Those few left af...

Dirk d'Argent is a man of many talents, swordsmanship chief among them. Upon reaching manhood he wandered the Seven Kingdoms of Epigaea plying his sabre in the service of merchants and generals eager to hire him. Then, over a nice meal in the city of Velport, he pauses for an evening of reflection.Up until now Dirk drifted before the wind, traveling as he would wherever fortune nudged him. Though rich with experience, his life begins to feel empty. Purposeless. Following a troubling...