Mackenzie, Lost and Found
by Deborah Kerbel
978-1-55002-852-2
$12.99
Mackenzie and her dad, alone since the death of her mother a year ago, are moving to Jerusalem, where her father has taken a position as a visiting professor. The adjustment from life in Canada to life in Israel is dramatic. But the biggest shock of all comes when Mackenzie faces the wrath of her new friends, new community, and even her own father after she begins dating a Muslim boy.
Bridget’s Black ’47
by Dorothy Perkyns
978-1-55488-400-1
$12.99
Bridget Quinlan is a spirited thirteen-year-old when the Irish potato blight of the 1840s shatters her life. After crops fail and typhus spreads, killing Bridget’s brother, Rory, the Quinlans are forced to endure the gruelling voyage to Canada. During the passage, appalling conditions on the ship cause many deaths, and eventually Bridget and her sister find themselves alone in the New World.
Snakes & Ladders
by Shaun Smith
978-1-55002-840-9
$12.99
Thirteen-year-old Paige Morrow becomes concerned when the farmer who owns the property her family cottage is on hires a creepy arborist — a “tree doctor,” Paige’s mother calls him. When Paige befriends the arborist’s troubled teenage daughter, Janine, and her group of rowdy locals, she is pulled into a maze of dark secrets and shocking truths that leads to a life-and-death confrontation.
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