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greatplains.mb.ca G R E A T P L A I N S T E E N F I C T I O N R K a novel catchup proposal-pass2.indd 1 12/11/08 9:32:05 PM catchup proposal-pass2.indd 1 12/11/08 10:01:58 PM Message From The Editor anIta DahEr associate Editor Watch this space next fall for a message from enfield & Wizenty editor maurice mierau about our exciting new literary fiction.TRANSCRIPT
SPRING 2009
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Message From Th e Editor
aS thE Earth thaWS anD GrEEn thInGS begin to unfold, the weight of winter dribbles into gutters. With a lightening spirit we turn our thoughts to summer activities such as lawn sport, barbeques, and perhaps tending
our own garden plots.
I am especially excited to have had a hand in the spring yield at Great Plains teen Fiction. a few years ago I occupied the very same offi ce space I do now, but as marketing co-ordi-nator. I left for a time to work on my own busy teen and middle-grade writing career, but stayed in touch.
august 2008, I was welcomed back to our brick and mortar (and lovely hardwood fl oors) offi ce as associate editor. Over this winter of frozen toes and square bicycle tires (you will note from our paper choice that we are a GrEEn publisher) it has been my pleasure, and my honour, to work with three very talented authors on their off erings; each unique in voice, and genre.
Dreamfi re is the second Great Plains teen Fiction novel for nicole Luiken. her fi rst, Frost, has been garnering top-rated reviews, won the Golden Eagle reader’s choice award in alberta, and was named fi nalist for the 2009 red Maple award in Ontario. Like Frost, Dreamfi re is also a supernatural thriller, something nicole has a delicious, devious knack for. You will be charmed by the interaction between her characters while drawn into her twisted world of ancient foes to humankind, who gain power through dreams.
Th e Boy Kelsey by alfred Silver is the fi rst of a series of historical teen novels. “Th e boy henry Kelsey” as the men in Th e Company of adventurers (hBC) often referred to him, made fastidious records of his journeys for all years but one. Th is is the year the author explores through fi ction, all within the framework of fact. his detailed accounts of how to execute certain tasks, such as cooking lead musket balls for his gun, will take your breath away, but it is Kelsey’s relationships with the people he meets, and in particular, one young aboriginal woman, that captures and holds.
Wolf Summer is a second book in a series for rob Keough that began with Th e Gem Lakes—a fi nalist for the Manitoba Young reader’s Choice award. It is an adventure story that takes super-sized steps into the fantastic as 14-year-old Jake learns how to survive in a weird wilderness—it has giant-sized animals, mysterious mumbles of disappeared coal miners, and ghostly apparitions. Th e author’s word choice is visceral, and his “voice” strong. Th is is a story that will grip you from the beginning, hold you through all its bloody toil, and spit you out, satisfi ed, on the other end.
and so our garden grows.
anIta DahErassociate Editor Watch this space next
fall for a message from enfi eld & Wizenty editor
maurice mierau about our exciting new literary fi ction.
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Dreamfi renicole Luiken
Brianne must unravel the mystery of an ancient foe before her terrible dreams come true and those closest to her perish in fl ames.
BrIannE IS haVInG a BaD DrEaM. Th e thing is, when Brianne has a bad dream, it usually means horrible
things are about to happen.
Th ings go from bad to terrifying when her dead aunt contacts her in a dream with a dire warning. to prevent her family and friends from perishing in a raging wildfi re, Brianne must fi nd a way to stop the wulfdraigles—ancient enemies to humanity that are growing in power, one evil dream at a time.
aBOUt thE aUthOr:Nicole Luiken is the author of six young adult novels including Frost, which won the 2008 Golden Eagle Award and was nominated for the Red Maple Award in the OLA’s Forest of Reading Program. She lives in Edmonton.
Also by Nicole Luiken: FrostISBn: 978-1-894283-72-4
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NICOLE LUIKEN
ISBn: 978-1-894283-88-5
Price: $14.95
Specs: trade paper, 5.5” x 8.5”, 200 pages, teen fi ction, printed on forest friendly paper
available: March 2009
Marketing Plans: advertising in Globe and Mail, Best of the West, Canadian Teacher Magazine, Prairie Books Now, S&B Magazine, local, regional, and national reviews. author participation in school tours and conferences. Great Plains accepts proposals for co-op advertising, displays, and events.
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Th e Boy Kelseyalfred Silver
Th e story of real life explorer Henry Kelsey as a young apprentice sent on an impossible mission, and what might have happened during the year missing from his extensive journals.
In 1690, On thE ShOrE OF CanaDa’S hUDSOn BaY, a young henry Kelsey longs to make his mark with “Th e Company of adventurers.” When the chief factor asks
him to travel inland to explore an endless wilderness fi lled with grizzly bears and wolves, and to establish trading connections with Canada’s First Peoples, he is eager to begin.
hundreds of miles southwest, a few days east of where the woodland melts into prairie, Kelsey meets Meyokwaiwin, a young Cree woman who has every reason to believe she will live out her life the same as her ancestors, with nothing changing but the round of seasons.
But things are about to change. For both of them.
aBOUt thE aUthOr:Alfred Silver has been at times a playwright, an actor, and a songwriter. He is the author of eleven novels including The Haunting of Maddie Prue and A Place Out of Time, which won the Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Award. He lives with his wife in a farmhouse at Ardoise, Nova Scotia.
ISBn: 978-1-894283-89-2
Price: $14.95
Specs: trade paper, 5.5” x 8.5”, 180 pages, teen fi ction, printed on forest friendly paper
available: april 2009
Marketing Plans: advertising in Winnipeg Free Press, Quill and Quire, Best of the West, Globe and Mail, Canadian Teacher Magazine, Prairie Books Now, S&B Magazine, local, regional, and national reviews. Great Plains accepts proposals for co-op advertising, displays, and events.
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Wolf Summerrob Keough
Jake Lucknow is living with cancer in the strangely altered land surrounding the Gem Lakes, but can he survive his latest challenge—a mutant pack of hungry wolves?
BEaUtIFUL aS It IS rUGGED anD UnFOr-GIVInG, the Gem Lakes range off ers Jake Lucknow life and adventure. now, with his cancer in remission,
he faces a new threat from the forest: a pack of wolves, unnaturally changed. Th ey are terrifying in a way the world has never seen.
When tragedy brings a new and unexpected ally, Jake must fi nd a way to stop the mutant wolves before their voracious appetites destroy everything in their paths.
a continuation of Th e Gem Lakes.
aBOUt thE aUthOr:Rob Keough was raised in Winnipeg and spends his summers in Nopiming and Whiteshell Provincial Parks where he enjoys fi shing, canoe trips and spending time with his wife and daughter. He is the author of The Gem Lakes, which was a fi nalist for Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award.
Also by Rob Keough: Th e Gem LakesISBn: 978-1-894283-58-8
ISBn: 978-1-894283-87-8
Price: $14.95
Specs: trade paper, 5.5” x 8.5”, 200 pages, teen fi ction, printed on forest friendly paper
available: april 2009
Marketing Plans: advertising in Winnipeg Free Press, Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Best of the West, Canadian Teacher Magazine, Prairie Books Now, S&B Magazine, local, regional, and national reviews and interviews. Great Plains accepts proposals for co-op advertising, displays, and events.
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Gravity JournalGail Sidonie SobatISBn: 978-1-894283-78-6 • retail Price: $14.95Specs: softcover, 5.5” x 8.5”, 176 pages, teen fi ction
“Sobat has created a tight and simple masterpiece.” –Marsha Skrypuch, CM Magazine
Nominated for the 2009 White Pine Award in the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading Program
WithershinsSusan rocanISBn: 978-1-894283-75-5 • retail Price: $14.95Specs: softcover, 5.5” x 8.5”, 235 pages, teen fi ction
“W ithershins will be enjoyed by all fans of historical fi ction.” –Resource Links
Fish and Sphinxrae BridgmanISBn: 978-1-894283-81-6 • retail Price: $14.95Specs: softcover, 5.5” x 8.5”, 194 pages, juvenile fi ction
“Bridgman once again takes the reader on a wild ride through an imaginary world.”–Resource Links
Breath of the DragonDiane Juttner PerraultISBn: 978-1-894283-54-0 • retail Price: $14.95Specs: softcover, 5.5” x 8.5”, 208 pages, teen fi ction
“not only does the author write vividly, but with sympathy and depth, making this a compelling and surprisingly uplifting novel. highly
recommended.” –Hi-Rise Newspaper
Winner of the 2006 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award
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