My Books
      101 Writing Exercises ~ The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw ~ Beyond Repair ~ Disconnect
      Meeting Miss 405 ~ The Paper House ~ Silver Rain ~ A Star in the Water  ~ The Wrong Bus

Coming in 2012

 

The Paper House Orca Young Reader, Spring 2012
Safiyah struggles to take care of her sick grand-mother in the Nairobi  slums.

The Wrong Bus Orca Echoes, Spring 2012
A ride on the wrong bus takes Jack to places his mother won't let him go.

Disconnect Orca Currents, Fall 2012
After moving to a new town, Daria's connection with her old friends is jeopardized when she is deprived of her cellphone.
 

Beyond Repair
Orca Currents, 2011


Cam thinks he is being stalked by the man who killed his father.
The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw
Orca Book Publishers Young Reader, 2010

Home on the Range is more than just a song.
Silver Rain
Orca Book Publishers Middle Grade Novel, 2010

You have to be desperate to dance till you drop.
Meeting Miss 405
Orca Book Publishers
Young Reader, 2008 



Just being there is the place to be.
A Star
in the Water

Metta Publications 2009
For 6 to 9 year-olds

(Limited edition sequel to Meeting Miss 405)
101-and more-Writing Exercises...
Metta Publications 2005
Popular with writing groups, writing teachers and individual writers.

10% of royalties on each book - and $1 for every copy sold at its launch -
is donated to one non profit organization or another. Click on the organization's name to learn more about the work they do in the community.

Disconnect - South Surrey White Rock Learning Centre
Paper House
- Children of Kibera

The Wrong Bus - Volunteer Grandparents Vancouver

Beyond Repair - White Rock Hospice Society

Silver Rain - The South Fraser Women's Centre

The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw - Alexandra Neighbourhood House
Meeting Miss 405 - Surrey Libraries

Other initiatives I support through gifts in kind, cash and sponsorships include:

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