Seeing Stars
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773762275
- Publish Date
- Oct 2001
- List Price
- $4.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 9 to 12
- Grade: 4 to 7
Description
Alex Issacson's life has never been normal His mother got into bed the day his father left, and never got back out again Hugely over-weight, she is known to the viewing public as Starbright the phone-in-psychic Although she spends her time consulting the stars and offering advice to others, she won't answer the questions that consume Alex Why did his father leave, and where is he now? So Alex has turned his search to the internet When he starts receiving strange emails riddled with bad puns, Alex thinks he might be on the right track -- but what on earth do they mean? More clues come when a "saxophone incident" leads Alex on a dangerous cross-country adventure After dodging the barrel of a hermit's shotgun, hooking up with a band on tour, and hitching a ride with a weak-bladdered truck driver, Alex may have found out more than he ever wanted to know And the truth may just leave him seeing stars
Shortlisted for CLA Book of the Year for Children Award 2002
Shortlisted for The Arthur Ellis Award (Juvenile) 2002
Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2002 Our Choice Starred Selection
About the author
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction including the poetry collections frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (written with derek beaulieu) and Raising Eyebrows and Outside the Hat (Coach House Books) and the fiction collections Doctor Weep and other strange teeth, Big Red Baby (The Mercury Press), and Cruelty to Fabulous Animals (Moonstone Press). He is the author of The Mud Game, a novel written with Stuart Ross (The Mercury Press). Barwin is also the author of several books for children including Seeing Stars, a young adult novel (Stoddart Kids) nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and the CLA YA Book of the Year, and Killer Poodle Made Me Island King (Fox Meadow), co-winner of the Muskoka Novel Marathon 2003. Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition and currently teaches music at Hillfield-Strathallan College and creative writing at McMaster University. Barwin lives in Hamilton, where he has cultivated vague but colourful illusions about his writing. Please don’t tell him.
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