Chapter Books
The Superhero's Sidekick
Anna Bream has just run away from home, and the first
thing she does is manage to help out a (rather bungling)
superhero. Everyone, including Mr. Fantastico, seems
to think he's great — the trouble is, he's not.
It looks like he's going to need Anna's help if he's
going to catch the mysterious Shadow Man. Which is hard
work for a runaway who's trying to keep a low profile...
Monsterzine!
Connor longs to be a monster fighter like his comic
book hero, Garth Zooten… until the day he accidentally
turns his older brother into a monster. He finally has
a monster to fight! But he also also a decision to make...
does he try to change his brother back? Download...
Mid-Grade Fiction
White Witch Pond
Shaya Solen’s walk home from school takes her past an
eerie pond, where one day she finds an old bracelet
made of raven feathers. Soon, strange events begin to
unfold: a shadowy figure glimpsed across the water,
ominous nightmares haunting Shaya, and rumours of a
witch who once drowned in the pond. With the discovery
of a strange family connection to the witch, Shaya is
drawn into a mystery that looks like it must be solved
before the approaching Halloween, which is the thirteenth
anniversary of the witch’s death. Download...
Going Magellan
Mack, a 12-year-old boy living on the streets of London,
strikes up a friendship with another homeless child,
Karen. Karen’s past is a mystery, as she can’t remember
anything prior to one year ago; the only clues to her
identity are some strange tattoos on her wrist. Mack,
convinced that Karen is different from the rest of the
homeless youths, is determined to solve the mystery
of who she is. But piecing together the clues puts them
on the run from mysterious strangers, and it now seems
like Karen now wants to get as far away from the truth
as she can.
Young Adult
The Goob Factor
Like most teens, Jay Gooby is convinced he has it worse
than anyone else. His parents don’t fit the normal mold,
and he has endured a lifetime of merciless teasing,
especially at the hands of his lifelong enemy, Mike
Thornleigh. But Jay has to take on more than just school
and hockey when two major events occur: his parents
adopt an autistic child, and there's a freak accident
at the hockey rink. Life sure can get a lot more complicated…
and at the same time, a lot simpler. Download...
Midway to Obsession
Jenna Maccoby is looking forward to her first real job
at the local fairground. But her ideal summer comes
crashing to a halt when the body of a teenage girl is
found by the side of a road. Suddenly, her small town
is on high alert, and Jenna feels like she’s living
in a prison. Kept at home with nothing to do, she begins
to obsess about Nadia, the deceased girl. Driven by
a desire to know her as more than ‘the murdered girl’,
she begins to investigate Nadia’s life, and, by implication,
her murder. The growing obsession is leading Jenna in
to danger, but she is compelled to keep going.
The Girl Across the Water
Paul VanDerMere is vacationing at a lakeside cabin in
the woods with his dad and stepbrother, Jasper. When
he and Jasper return from a canoe trip to one of the
small, uninhabited islands on the lake, Paul happens
to glance back and see a young girl staring back at
him. He’s soon drawn in to the unsettling mystery of
a strange girl who randomly appears and disappears from
the island. When he hears a local ghost story about
a young girl just like her, he begins to wonder if he’s
dealing with a real person, or something entirely different.
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The Frankincense Trail
In the 3rd century BC Arabia, at the height of the frankincense
trade, a young princess runs away from home and joins
up with a trading caravan. As Alia journeys south across
the great desert, she learns that the caravan leaders
are not to be trusted. Intrigue turns to danger, and
then to betrayal, when Alia finds that her journey has
gone from difficult to life-threatening.
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Jody
Kihara is the author of children's and young adult fiction.
Her current and completed works are listed below.
