Monica Hughes

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1977
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Crisis on Conshelf Ten

    Visiting the undersea community of Conshelf Ten, moon resident Kepler is puzzled by the uneasiness of his cousin, Jon, and Jon's girlfriend, until he meets a gillman and learns about a threat to Earth and Moon...

  • Beyond the Dark River

  • The Keeper of the Isis Light

    Since Olwen has spent her entire life on an uninhabited planet, adapting to its environment, when a spaceship from Earth appears, Olwen, although a human being, finds the earthmen repelled by her appearance...

  • The Guardian of Isis

    In 2136 A.D. the settlers on the planet Isis, under the dominance of an absolute ruler, have lost all the technical knowledge of their forefathers and reverted to a primitive society dominated by myths and taboos....

  • The Isis Pedlar

  • Devil on My Back

    ArcOne, a computer built during the Age of Confusion, imposes a rigid social order on the colony until a slave rebellion leads Tomi, son of the colony Overlord, to a new recognition of the value of freedom...

  • The Dream Catcher

    In a future world whose people are clustered in domed cities, fifteen-year-old Ruth, who possesses great extrasensory powers and who has received troubling messages in her dreams from another center of civilization, accompanies a group to search for ...

  • Hunter in the Dark

  • Beckoning Lights

    If Jack and I hadn't been telepathic those others would not have overheard us 'talking' about what Jack had seen in the cave. If Mother hadn't died the previous year I would have been at home with her instead of in the Rockies on the field trip w...



  • Treasure of the Long Sault

    In the early morning of November 11, 1813, the day of the battle of Crysler's farm, a young Canadian, Alexander MacAlpine, is found hiding in a ravine among enemy troops. MacAlpine is accused of giving away the British and Canadian positions to t...

  • Invitation to the Game

    It's the future, and most jobs are done by machines. Now that school is over, Lisse and her friends are consigned to a bleak neighborhood for the permanently unemployed. Then they receive an invitation to the Game, which transports them to a paradise...

  • Promise

    Princess Rania is forced to leave everything she loves when she is apprenticed to a desert-dwelling ascetic, but she soon develops a love for her new life that will conflict with her eventual return to the world....

  • Little Fingerling

  • Handful of Seeds

    One sad day, Grandmother died.

    "You cannot stay here," said the man who owned the land. "I have a family ready to move in."

    Young Concepcion has no choice but to move to the [barrio] of the nearby city. There she meets children wh...

  • The Ghost Dance Caper

    Every Sunday when Tom visits his great-grandfather, Samuel Lightfoot, on a Blackfoot reserve, the sparks fly. Tom's non-native mother, unsympathetic to his native heritage, resents the visits, and his father has turned his back on the native way ...

  • The Golden Aquarians

    Joining his father on the planet Aqua, Walt Elliot becomes involved in ""terraforming,"" the procedure by which the natural resources of other planets are harvested for Earth use, and Walt is alarmed at the environmental devastation on such pla...

  • Castle Tourmandyne

  • The Seven Magpies

    Britain has just declared war on Germany and 14-year-old Maureen has been shipped off to a safe but remote Scottish boarding school. An outsider, Maureen quickly discovers there is something sinister going on among the cliquish girls, involv...

  • Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?

    It’s 1908 when Billy, an orphan, is taken in by an old man who operates a carousel at the local carnival. Discovering the carousel’s secret, Billy is catapulted into the future of the 1990s. Now he’s trying to return home, but the caro...



  • The Faces of Fear

    After the accident that meant that she would be using a wheelchair for the rest of her life, industrialist's daughter Joan Sandow devotes herself to playing a virtual-reality computer game designed just for her and the partner she knows as Whizkid, b...

  • Jan and Patch

    Jan wants a puppy more than just about anything. But the house she lives in with her mom and grandmother is small, and they're all too busy to take care of a dog. So Jan goes to the local pet store-every day-to visit a little puppy she calls Patch. S...

  • The Story Box

    Living on an island where dreams, imagination, and stories are forbidden, Colin fears for his sister, Etta who has dreams that wake her in the night, and for the stranger who washed up on Ariban's beach after a violent storm...

  • What If...?: Amazing Stories

    Fantastical stories to spur the imagination.

    What if? It’s a question that is the beginning of endless possibilities. When science fiction writer Monica Hughes posed this question to a group of science fiction and fantasy writers, the result...

  • Bobbie & the Baby Set

  • The Play

  • The Other Place

    In 2154, sixteen-year-old Alison, eight-year-old Gordie, and their dissident parents are arrested and taken to a sterile dome in a hostile environment, but Gordie escapes and Alison follows him to the place he calls Xanadu....

  • Other Place Mm

    Shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Red Maple Award, The Other Place is Monica Hughes’ latest young adult hit, a futuristic tale with a political edge. All of the trademark elements that make Hughes’ books so successfu...

  • Storm Warning

  • Gold Fever Trail

    In 1897, Dawson City on the banks of the Yukon River was the scene of the greatest gold rush the world has ever known...the Klondike Gold Rush. More than 20, 000 men across rugged trails and mountains to reach this land where fortunes could be made i...



  • Jan's Awesome Party

    Jan and Sarah have earned reward money and they want to use it for something special for the kids in their class. Their teacher thinks it's a great idea. The trouble is there's not enough money for a trip to the zoo or for a totally awesome party....

  • The Maze

  • Sandwriter

  • The Picnic

    This simple picture book with a familiar theme, looks at the different thigns that a family take on a picnic; the rug, the basket, the sandwiches, the cakes and the drinks. The scene is set for a perfect picnic, until the wasps arrive!

    • P...

  • Stripes

    Where do you see stripes around you? This non-fiction picture book looks at all sorts of stripes. Do you see them on a zebra’s fur, or as shadows on the pavement, or on a bright, woolly jumper? Alongside each photograph is a close-up snapshot th...

  • What's Inside?

    What’s inside a nut? What’s inside a pod? What’s inside you and me? The clear photos in this book will show children what’s inside all sorts of things, from a pea inside a peapod to the skeletons inside us.

    • Red A/ Band 2A books o...

  • Crystal Drop

    Set in the very near future when global warming has brutally affected the drought-stricken prairies, The Crystal Drop is the story of Megan and her brother, Ian, who must set out on a dangerous journey to find their uncle, and the most precious comm...

  • Lights

    This book with beautiful illustrations captures the qualities of each kind of light, from sunlight to moonlight to electric light, the way it illuminates and the relationship between darkness and light.Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers v...

  • Shapes

    This simple non-fiction book introduces and explores the circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, stars and hexagons which can be found in everyday objects. Each labelled shape is accompanied by a photograph showing the shape in an environmental c...

  • Blaine's Way

    Then I hear the whistle of the train, and the sound takes me back to the farm near Cornell, back to the winter of 1930...

    All his life, Blaine has dreamed of being somewhere else. Growing up on a farm during the lean years of the depressi...



  • The Isis Trilogy

    The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes’ acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since the death of...

  • The Game

    THE GAME IS JUST THE BEGINNING... It's the year 2154. Lisse and her friends have been deemed unemployable in the eyes of society. Now they must scavenge the disintegrating city for food and shelter, just to make ends meet. But their dismal existenc...

  • Fun on the Canal

    Floppy's Phonics Non-fiction allow children to practise their decoding and literacy skills in the context of exciting non-fiction books, which include a variety of text types and topics, and support from Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy....

  • Taps and Pans

    Floppy's Phonics Non-fiction allow children to practise their decoding and literacy skills in the context of exciting non-fiction books, which include a variety of text types and topics, and support from Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy....

  • Cinderella

    Introduce your child to a classic fairy tale in this retelling for beginning readers. Share the words and the enchanting pictures to help your litle one build confidence with reading. Helping beginning readers: Read the story aloud Follow the text wi...

  • Rapunzel

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Introduce your child to a classic fairy tale in this retelling for beginning readers. Share the words and the enchanting pictures to help your litle one build confidence with reading. Helping beginning readers: Read the story aloud Follow the text wi...

  • Pushing and Pulling

    The colourful photographs in this non-fiction recount demonstrates different ways of pushing and pulling through photographs taken in a children’s playground, using swings, roundabouts and climbing frames and simple captions.

    • Pink A/B...

  • Boxer and the Fish

  • Hans in Luck



  • Three Rocks

  • Migration

    Why do some animals migrate? Where do swallows spend the winter? When do wildebeests migrate? Animal migration follows patterns. Some animals migrate every year, and others migrate only a few times in their life or only when they are adults. Read thi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Monica Hughes has published 51 books.

Monica Hughes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Migration, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Monica Hughes, Crisis on Conshelf Ten, was published in February 1977.

No. Monica Hughes does not write books in series.
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