Award-winning playwright, novelist and short fiction writer Martha Brooks was born and raised in a medical family on the grounds of the now defunct Manitoba sanatorium in southwestern Manitoba and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Martha is a self-taught writer who has learned the craft through isolation, hard work and the guidance of superb mentors. Martha's young adult books are multi-generational meditations on love, loss and the miracle of unexpected connections.
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1999 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award winner. Laker, almost 17, arrives in Bemidji with a little bit of money in his pocket on a bus from Duluth. His mother has kicked him ou...
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A densely-layered, complicated plot, with the story narrated in third-person, past tense, and told alternately by the two central characters, Lonny and Alexandra, this novel will appeal t...
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Everyone is affected by the haunted life of Sally McLean - her family as well as the lakeside community of Mistik Lake where a tragedy occurred in the winter of her sixteenth year. Now h...
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``Some memories are so strong and sweet and sad they seem to have a life of their own.'' The final line from one of the selections in this collection better states their theme than any re...
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2002 Governor General's Award winner for text. In the midst of a heaven-rattling summer storm a young stranger blows into a small prairie town. On the run after taking her latest boyfrien...
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