How exciting is this?! My young-adult novel Tracker’s Canyon has been nominated for an Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading award (Red Maple)!
That means I’ll be traveling to Ontario next spring and speaking at schools and libraries again. Hopefully, it also means if you haven’t read Tracker’s Canyon already, you’ll be eager to do so now. Here’s more information on the Festival of Trees program.
“OLA runs the Festival of Trees in Toronto for 12,000 eager readers on May 14thto the 16th, 2019 (First two days are English, and the third day is the French festival). This is where the winners are announced and every year, we have more than 100 nominees in attendance. You will not be disappointed! All past attendees can attest that you really do feel like a rock star. These readers love your books and are your loyal fans!”
Festival Line-up for 2019
May 8th– Kitchener (Waterloo Region) Festival (Silver Birch & Red Maple nominees)
May 10th– London (Silver Birch & Red Maple nominees)
May 14th– Toronto (Blue Spruce, Red Maple & White Pine nominees)
May 15th– Toronto (Silver Birch Fiction, Non Fiction & Express nominees)
May 16th – Toronto (Le Prix Tamarac, Tamarac Express, Peuplier nominees)
A reminder of what Tracker’s Canyon is all about:
When Tristan’s dad disappears, he puts his tracking skills to the test to find him — but will Tristan’s talents save him if it turns out to be a trap?
Thanks to his dad’s coaching, sixteen-year-old Tristan is one of the best climbers and trackers in his small town. He can read footprints and bushes like they’re security-camera footage, and fearlessly descend rock faces and waterfalls. But when his father disappears, leaving his mother too grief-stricken to function, the young canyoneer’s life goes into freefall.
Left in the hands of a well-meaning but incompetent uncle and a space-cadet housekeeper, Tristan finds life a struggle no matter how hard he works. When he nears the end of his rope at home, the teen decides to set off into Swallow Canyon in search of his father — only to realize that someone may be out to get him. Now the question is who’s stalking whom, and are Tristan’s skills up to the dangerous game playing out in the deep, shadowy canyon?
