Description
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award
Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog. Gran's house is about to be demolished, so anything goes, whether it's drawing maps on the walls or sawing off the knob at the bottom of the banister for a smoother ride.
When Kip bashes through an old closet, he discovers the binder his late father kept as a teenager. He's bewildered by what he finds: puzzling lists, hair samples, old newspaper clippings and business cards -- all accompanying a confidential report written by a mysterious young operative who is carrying out a secret plan to infect teenagers with a cell-altering virus.
This wonderful novel has all the Sarah Ellis hallmarks -- quirky characters, insight and wit -- underpinned by resonant themes of family, memory and the creative imagination.
Author Bio
SARAH ELLIS is a celebrated author, teacher and children’s literature expert. She has written more than twenty books across the genres, and her books have been translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Chinese and Japanese. She has won the Governor General’s Literary Award (Pick-Up Sticks) and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award (Odd Man Out). Sarah is a masthead reviewer for the Horn Book Magazine, and she is a former faculty member of Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Prizes
- Chocolate Lily AwardLong-listed 2008
- CLA Book of the Year for Children AwardShort-listed 2007
- OLA Best Bets - Top 10 Fiction for ChildrenCommended 2007
- Manitoba Young Reader's Choice AwardShort-listed 2008
- Maine State Library Cream of the Crop ListCommended 2007
- OLA Silver Birch AwardLong-listed 2008
- ALA Notable Books for Older Readers listCommended 2007
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature PrizeWinner 2007
- Alberta Children's Choice AwardShort-listed 2008
- Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz AwardShort-listed 2007
- TD Canadian Children's Literature AwardWinner 2007
- CCBC Our Choice (Starred Selection)Commended 2007
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher AwardCommended 2007
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