On Elizabeth’s first discovery of the tumbledown cottages at the far edge of the woods, all she saw was the rotting thatched roof and crumbling walls. Inside the air was dank and the wallpaper was stained with damp and mold. But on the next visit,...
Four children find themselves in the past and later in a future time while exploring an ancient Scottish tower....
Short description JSBElspeth MacDonald didn’t understand her mother’s dying words. Take care of wee Rob. You mustn’t let them take him away. You are to stay together. . . .Do you understand. . . ? Who would want to take her brother away? But t...
PHANTOM OF THE MONITOR Something weird is going on in Sarah's father's new computer store. When Sarah looks at her reflection in the monitor, the face she sees isn't hers! It belongs to a younger girl, named Pascale, whose tragic story mysteriously ...
An autobiographical novel, first published in 1958, about the founder of a literary magazine and her love for a French actress who claims that her religious faith makes it impossible to discuss, much less act on, the two women's desire for each other...
Winner of the 2005 Stevens Literary Prize
Douglas's student, Sandy, who has run away from home to join the Hudson’s Bay Company, learns about the plants that Douglas methodically collected and identified for science. He befriends T’Catisa,...
Two children are hurled into a post climate-change world resulting from their hunt for three missing stones in an ancient Scottish stone circle...
During the evacuation of children from Edinburgh in the early days of World War II, shy, wealthy Margaret on her way to relatives in Canada trades places and identities with the orphaned Shona bound for the Scottish countryside. In taking Shona’s n...
In August 1907, when Jenny's father went off to America with the two oldest Jardin children, leaving the rest of the family behind, Jenny realized there was a heap of things you couldn't change just by wishing. The Plan was for the others to join him...