The Reptile Club: Book launch (Winnipeg, MB)

Join 

author

 Maureen Fergus

for the launch of her newest picture book

The Reptile Club

Written by Maureen Fergus

Illustrated by Elina Ellis

Kids Can Press

978-1-77138-655-5

32 pp.

Ages 3-7

September 2018 

Reviewed here

on

Saturday, September 29, 2018

at

1 p.m.

at

McNally Robinson Booksellers

Grant Park Shopping Centre

Winnipeg, MB

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See my review today about this clever picture book about reptiles, passions, friends, and acceptance and then take in the book launch next week for The Reptile Club.

Family of Spies: Book launch (Winnipeg, MB)

Join author

Jodi Carmichael

for the launch of

her new middle-grade novel

Family of Spies

Written by Jodi Carmichael

Yellow Dog

978-1-927855-94-2

288 pp.

Ages 8-13

April 2018

on 

Sunday, April 29, 2018

2 p.m.

at

 McNally Robinson Booksellers

Grant Park Shopping Centre

1120 Grant Avenue

Winnipeg, MB

I'm pleased to share that I'll be participating in the blog tour for Family of Spies on May 10, 2018 with my review of this action-adventure with a touch of the fantastic inspired by the author's own grandfather's rumoured espionage activities during World War 2.  But, until then, here is the blurb from publisher Great Plains.

When cousins Ford, Ellie and Gavin, discover their great-grandfather was a rogue World War 2 spymaster, they must outrun MI6 and the CIA through the streets of Paris, relying on their wits and Ford’s newfound clairvoyant skills to unlock Great-Granddad’s spy secrets buried in the past. Great-Granddad hid something important to the war effort and these agencies want it back! 

Retrieved from 

https://www.greatplains.mb.ca/product/family-of-spies/ 

on April 25, 2018.

Book Launch: 250 Hours (Winnipeg)

Author of

Tori by Design

Great Plains Books, 2011

and

The Fall

Great Plains Teen Fiction, 2013

Reviewed here

Colleen Nelson

and

Coteau Books

launch her newest book

250 Hours

250 Hours

by Colleen Nelson

Coteau Books

978-1-55050-641-9

200 pp.

Ages 12+

For release September 2015

on 

September 19, 2015

at
7 p.m.

at McNally Robinson Books
Grant Park in the Atrium
Winnipeg, MB

Here's the blurb from the McNally Robinson website:

Jess and Sara Jean couldn’t be more different. He’s a loner with a criminal record; a Metis raised on the Reserve; the son of a residential school survivor. She’s from nearby Edelburg, a conservative small town. Abandoned by her mother, Sara Jean cares for her obese grandmother and writes to escape.

When Jess is found guilty of arson, he’s ordered to complete 250 hours of community service, starting with Sara Jean’s neglected garage. Sorting through boxes left by her grandfather, they discover that the secrets keeping their communities apart are the very things that will bring them together.

Looking forward to reading this one!