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Ghost train

1995
The reader's decisions control the course of a mystery involving the sabotage of orchards on a farm in British Columbia.

Everything on a waffle

2002
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

Tell me no lies

1989
Mike and Ally and the junior class go to an island off the coast of British Columbia to observe the whales, but there are other visitors on the island willing to kill.

Miss Smithers

2005
Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.

Alice MacLeod, realist at last

2006
Sixteen-year-old Alice uses her screen-writing aspirations to help her get through a challenging period in her life after her boyfriend goes to Scotland, her mother is jailed for environmental activism, and her depressed father cannot get a job.

Everything on a waffle

2004
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

The drop

2011
When Alex and three other snowboarders find themselves in trouble in the remote mountains of British Columbia, Alex must confront his fears and lead them to safety.

The lynching of Louie Sam

a novel
2012
A fictionalized account of the 1884 lynching of fourteen-year-old Louie Sam, a Native American, by a group of men from the Washington Territory, told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old George Gillies and his best friend, whose fathers were part of the lynch mob that traveled into British Columbia to get what they saw as justice for the murder of a white Washington settler.

Tale of a great white fish

a sturgeon story
2006
Follows the adventures of Big Fish, a 177-year-old sturgeon living in British Columbia's Fraser River, who during her very long life endures and survives such catastrophes as rock slides, lake drainages, and sport fishermen.

Mary of Mile 18

1971
Mary's father tells her she cannot keep a wolf puppy since the only animals kept by families in the cold North are those that work or provide food.

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