" Armstrong's] voice is authentic and fearless. . . I had found a book about me. This is my winding road. . . the people of this book are like a broken mirror, reflecting the silvery slivers of my neighbours, my friends, my grandparents and children;...
This YA novel tells how young Jeannie is taken from her home, placed with foster parents and is unable to discover the whereabouts of her ill mother. As a result, Jeannie withdraws into herself and can think only of running away. Gradually, howeve...
British Columbia has changed. Globally, the weather has become extreme and unpredictable. Giant corporations rule. They are the beneficiaries of environmental laws imposed too late to help the world, but which can be used to control and impoverish...
Pete’s Gold, a novel for readers ten and up, is a captivating book of adventure that will appeal in particular to boys. Armstrong takes the classic adventure story of the search for gold and updates it with the inclusion of a young boyÃ"ôs cont...
In I’ll Be Home Soon, Luanne Armstrong takes the reader on a tension-filled ride as Regan, a young girl living in the inner city, searches for her mother who has mysteriously disappeared. Homeless but by no means hapless, Regan is on her own much o...
MYRCA FinalistIn 3500 BC, a killing drought forces Morven and her tribe to roam the steppes of Kazakhstan, struggling to survive. Fiercely independent and never quite feeling she belongs, Morven feels a greater kinship to animals than her own people....