A feel-good picture book about best friendship told with dry comedy and an open ending-squirrel and mushroom are best friends until another best friend comes to play.
A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John "e;Bearman"e; Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common - they are both runaways.
2012 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award - Shortlisted2010 Cybils Award - Shortlisted A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John Absolutely nothing is going right for Max Green.
In 1910, while twelve-year-old Addy McLeod waits in a cabin in the Kootenay wilderness of southeastern British Columbia for her brother, Cask, to send for her, she fends off the unwanted advances of her alcoholic stepfather.