• Age: 9 to 12
• Grade: 4 to 7

William is very nervous about his first day at a new school until he meets a strange boy called Wrickety Stick. Wrickety — along with the rest of the Stick family — has bendable bones. He can make his bones go soft and thin just by concentrating. This means that he can do things that William can only imagine, like sliding under doors and squeezing into cracks, or slipping between the bars of a grate. After witnessing it for himself, William becomes fascinated and wants to know more about this strange family and their unusual bones. But it’s not just William who is interested in the Sticks’ bones. The Sticks soon find out they are in danger — and William intends to help them. Though he can’t slide under doors, he’ll do everything he can to save his new friends.

Karen was born in Australia, raised in England, and came to Canada as a teenager. She has always loved writing. The first thing she ever had published was a paragraph about Captain James Cook in a letter to a children’s magazine when she was seven years old — she lived in Whitby, England, where Captain Cook began his life as a seaman. Since then she’s always carried a journal with her to jot down ideas for future stories. She has had several short stories and articles published. William Meets the Stick Family is her first book for junior readers. She is currently working on a sequel. Karen graduated from the University of Waterloo and currently works at the University of Guelph Library. She has three children and shares a house in Rockwood with a cat named Lilah.

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