Children's Fiction Fantasy & Magic
Attack of the Toga Gang
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2015
- Category
- Fantasy & Magic, General, Humorous Stories
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770864436
- Publish Date
- May 2015
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781770864429
- Publish Date
- May 2015
- List Price
- $12.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 10 to 13
- Grade: 4 to 7
- Reading age: 9 to 12
Description
When thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, they don't expect they'll be involved in anything more complicated than limericks and rhyming barbs directed towards one another. But then Harry stumbles across something unexpected - a ring. And it's not just any ring. He quickly discovers that the ring gives him a different power each day. Telekinesis one day, invisibility another . And suddenly, he and the Poets' Club are wrapped up in a centuries-old mystery.
With the help of a university professor, Harry and the gang learn that the ring can be traced to ancient Rome. But protecting the artefact won't be easy: a centuries-old organization known as the Toga Gang is determined to get ahold of the ring, and they have the Poets' Club in their sights.
Attack of the Toga Gang is a hilarious middle-grade novel by a Canadian literary treasure.
About the author
George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and youth fiction. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.Bowering has twice won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.
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