Sylvia Olsen

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2001
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Murphy

1 - Murphy and Mousetrap (Apr-2005)
2 - A Different Game (Apr-2010)
3 - Molly's Promise (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • No Time to Say Goodbye

    No Time to Say Goodbye: Children’s Stories of Kuper Island Residential School. For most North Americans, the practice of sending First Nations children to aboriginal boarding schools is a chapter in history that seems best forgotten. But the genera...

  • No Time to Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School

    No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children are taken by government agents from Tsartlip Day ...

  • The Girl with a Baby

    You are the same girl that came to school last year. They are the same kids. But nothing was the same and I knew it. I had become the girl with a baby.

    Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be high school dropouts and lat...

  • White Girl

    "I never thought about being white. I didn't have to. I was transparent&8212;no colour at all. I hung out, was a good enough student and no one paid any special attention to me at all. Then I became a white girl."

    Until she was fourteen, Josi...

  • Catching Spring

    The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations.Bobby loves his weekend job at the nearby marina. He loves to play marbles with his friends. And he ...

  • Just Ask Us

    Teen moms are nothing new. For as long as anyone can remember, families, communities, and governments have been grappling with the poverty and lack of life opportunities faced by these parents and their children. For First Nations in particular, the ...

  • Murphy and Mousetrap

    Murphy - 1

    Murphy's mother has just moved him and their cat, Mousetrap, back to the reserve in Port Alberni. Although he belongs to the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Murphy is sure that he won't fit in, and he worries about Mousetrap, who has always been an in...

  • Yellow Line

    Vince lives in a small town -- a town that is divided right down the middle by race. An unspoken rule has been there as long as Vince remembers and no one challenges it. But when Vince's friend Sherry starts dating an Indigenous boy, Vince is out...

  • Yetsa's Sweater

    On a fresh spring day, young Yetsa, her mother and her grandmother gather to prepare the sheep fleeces piled in Grandma's yard. As they clean, wash and dry the fleece, laughter and hard work connect the three generations. Through Yetsa's sensual expe...



  • Middle Row

    Things have changed since Raedawn and Vince started going out and the racial boundaries in town have slipped a bit. But when Dune, who never took sides, disappears, Raedawn is determined to find out where he has gone -- or what happened to him. Fight...

  • Which Way Should I Go?

    Joey is a happy Nuu-chah-nulth boy, eager to help and quick to see the bright side of things. But when he loses his beloved grandmother, the sun goes out in his world. Fortunately, she has left something of herself behind -- a song, which keeps knock...

  • Counting on Hope

    Award-winning writer Sylvia Olsen's sensitively drawn depiction of innocence lost and wisdom hard won, Counting on Hope tells the story of an English girl named Hope and a Lamalcha girl named Letia, whose lives are profoundly changed when their two c...

  • A Different Game

    Murphy - 2

    In this sequel to Murphy and Mousetrap, Murphy and his three friends, Danny, Jeff and Albert, are making the transition from the tribal elementary school to the community middle school. They are all trying out for the middle school's soccer team, and...

  • Sebastian Sasquatch

    Sebastian Sasquatch loves his home in Puddle Valley. It has everything a young sasquatch needs: trees to swing from, a creek to fish in, meadows for running and jumping. Well, almost everything. In all of Puddle Valley, there isn't another sasquatch ...

  • Molly's Promise

    Murphy - 3

    When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager. Molly is certain she is a good singer -- she has been singing in her head for as long as she can remember. She d...

  • Life Cycle of a Lie

    Fifteen-year-old Vikki loves her boyfriend, Linc. But when Jona moves to town, things get complicated. Jona is beautiful. Sensitive. Funny. At first, Vikki finds it thrilling to spend time with two delicious boys. But when Linc and Jona seem to be en...

  • Neekah's Knitting Needles

    Neekah’s great grandma, Mumma, knit all her life. Her Grandma Dorothy knits, her mom knits and all her aunties knit. Even some of Neekah’s uncles knit, too. Every year she asks her mom if she can learn, and every year she hears, “Be...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sylvia Olsen has published 17 books.

Sylvia Olsen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Neekah's Knitting Needles, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Sylvia Olsen, No Time to Say Goodbye, was published in September 2001.

Yes. Sylvia Olsen has 1 series.
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