Young Adult Fiction Emotions & Feelings
The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley
125 Years of the World's Biggest Bonspiel
- Publisher
- Great Plains Publications
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2013
- Category
- Emotions & Feelings, General, Boys & Men
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926531687
- Publish Date
- Mar 2013
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
FINALIST, Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Awards, 2014 When no one listens, what's the point of talking? Kyle McGinley doesn't say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, and a swamp, and an excess of blank paint, he begins to think that maybe, just maybe, life could be better. As long as his frigging dad doesn't mess things up.
About the author
Jan Andrews lives at the end of the road on a lake in Eastern Ontario. The plants and creatures in her Orca book The Twelve Days of Summer can all be found in her backyard. She has a love for the Canadian wilderness and, when not writing, can often be found canoeing, cross-country skiing, hiking or rock climbing, depending on the season. Jan has been part of the world of Canadian children's literature for thirty years and more. Her titles include such classic picture books as Very Last First Time and The Auction. She has contributed to the Dear Canada series through her book Winter of Peril.
An accomplished storyteller with a passionate concern for oral traditions, she has produced the folktale collection Out of the Everywhere. New Tales for Canada and set down the true story of Pa's Harvest as heard from another teller. She has a new book coming out in 2007 entitled The Stories at the Door—a work of rollicking fun and humour. Jan loves to do school visits and is prepared to travel widely to remote and urban locations. She gives teacher workshops and does conference presentations. Her specialty is letting her listeners know how much she cares about them.
She is the Artistic Director for two storytelling series and the Director of Storysave, a project for recording elders from the Canadian storytelling community for CDs and audio website. Somehow, with all of this, Jan has never quite managed to get her own website organized - although she keeps trying! She can, however, be reached at jandrews@magma.ca.
Editorial Reviews
WINNER, Moonbeam Award for Young Adult Fiction, Gold Medal
SELECTION, Best Bets of 2013, The Ontario Library AssociationSTARRED SELECTION, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2013
"utterly gorgeous! In a well-paced, beautifully spare prose, Andrews charts the journey of a boy faced with the most difficult task of his life: making friends with a darkly mysterious, frightened and unhappy stranger: himself." -Tim Wynne-Jones, author of Blink & Caution
Other titles by
When the Wind Came
To See the Stars
Dear Canada: Winter of Peril
The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge, Mairie's Cove, New-Found-Land, 1721
La toute dernière première fois
When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew
Tales of Ti-Jean
Rude Stories
Cher Journal : Le temps des réjouissances
Dix récits de Noël
The Auction
The Twelve Days of Summer
