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New series coming spring of 2011!Get ready for Pam Withers' forthcoming Thrill Island series! Brother-sister duo Max and Marie Ames find their west coast island being turned into an adventure theme park, complete with paintball games, bungee-jumping, submarine rides and more. The series, targeted at ages 8 to 12, launches the spring of 2011 with (title subject to change) Paintball Island. Whitecap Books: www.whitecap.ca Pam Withers has written 13 sports and adventure novels for teens, all bestsellers and three nominated for awards, plus a biography. Her work includes the 10-book Xtreme series and three other high-action novels. Mountainboard Maniacs just made it into the prestigious annual listing, Best Books for Kids and Teens 2009, published by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Pam lives in Vancouver, Canada, spends up to a week per month in Seattle, and tours North America extensively. (See TALKS page.)
Pam’s books have wide appeal to boys and girls, to avid and reluctant readers, to teens and to younger children who are looking for a challenging high-interest book. — British Columbia Teachers’ Federation newsletter
Featured Book
Adrenalin RideWhen a former Sam's Adventure Tour guide invites Jake and Peter to help develop a downhill-mountain bicycling trail for his new adventure company, the boys can't believe their good fortune. Hardly have the mountains enveloped the trio, though, when the boys begin to question their host's true motives for this wild ride, and when he disappears, they're plunged into the mountain-bicycling descent of their lives. Sign on for a third adrenalin-pumping extreme sports adventure with Jake and Peter! |
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