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more great fiction for young
people from Dundurn

Ghost Ride
by Marina Cohen
978-1-55488-438-4

$12.99

Eager to fit in at his new school, fourteen-year-old Sam McLean joins the popular Cody and his sidekick, Javon, on their midnight ghost riding, where the driver and passenger climb onto the hood of their moving car and dance. But something goes wrong, and soon mysterious messages appear on Cody's blog and anonymous notes are slid into Sam's locker. As Sam struggles with his conscience, a haunting question remains: Who else knows the truth?

Girl on the Other Side
by Deborah Kerbel
978-1-55488-443-8

$12.99

Despite their differences, Tabby and Lora have something in common — they're both harbouring dark secrets and a lot of pain. Although they've never been friends, a series of strange events causes their lives to crash together in ways neither could have ever imagined. When the dust finally settles and all their secrets are forced out into the light, will the girls be saved … or destroyed?

Watcher
by Valerie Sherrard
978-1-55488-431-5

$12.99

Sixteen-year-old Porter Delancy has his future figured out, but his nice, neat plans are shaken when a man he believes may be his father suddenly appears in his Toronto neighbourhood. As Porter looks for answers, it begins to seem that all he's ever going to find are more questions.

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also by Gina McMurchy-Barber

Reading the Bones
A Peggy Henderson Adventure
978-1-55002-732-7

$11.99

Twelve-year-old Peggy Henderson is forced to live in a quiet British Columbia town with her aunt and uncle. She grows increasingly unhappy until she discovers a human skull in her backyard! The town was built on top of a five-thousand-year-old Coast Salish fishing village. With help, Peggy comes to know the ancient storyteller buried in her yard in a way few others can — by reading the bones.