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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
Surf Zone
In the fifth adventure of the Take It to The Xtreme series, fifteen-year-old best friends Jake and Peter are cruising the Northwest Coast on a yacht from which they help lead ocean kayak tours. Better yet, on their hours off, they break out their surf boards to hit the waves with an attractive fifteen-year-old French girl who is on the trip. But when the three teens get permission to go scuba diving, a harrowing misadventure leaves them stranded on a remote island. The boys' competition for the girl turns to panic when they find that the yacht has mysteriously abandoned them. Although buoyed by the discovery of surfboards in an empty cabin, the trio are soon locked into a fight for their lives when a major storm hits as they attempt to cross the serious stretch of open water between their island and the mainland. By the time they've tangled with thirty-foot waves, the stubbornness of their companion, and a grave robber, the boys have a new respect for nature, local legends, and what does and doesn't belong to them.
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