Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage.

Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked to find someone already living there -- Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside: a dead bird, a snakeskin, a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. But Mimi has just arrived, so who is responsible? And more alarmingly, what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller, part family drama, this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints, in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie -- a mysterious character in its own right.

published in Canada by Groundwood Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-88899-799-9
ISBN-10: 0-88899-799-X
221 pages (ages 9 and up)
$12.95 CAD

In sixth grade now, the wildly imaginative Rex Zero and his friends hatch a plan to replace Miss Garr, the substitute teacher from hell, and Rex takes on the persona of none other than “Dr. Love.” Of course, events spin hilariously out of control. Miss Garr’s cruel behavior is a mystery to Rex. But then, Rex’s world is full of mysteries! There’s the beautiful woman in white. Why does she have a black eye? There’s the little black book filled with names. Who could it belong to? And why has Rex’s father hidden a letter that begins: “Mein Liebchen”? Could all these things have something to do with the mystery of love? Underneath all of this is the age-old question of how to stand up and be a man. For if, as Rex’s dad says, “a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do,” how does Rex know what to do and when to do it?

Rex Zero and the End of the World

A novel,
Published, fall of 2006, by Groundwood Books, in Canada
Paperback, ISBN 10: 088899-759-0
224 pages (ages 9 and up)
$12.95 CAD

It’s the summer of 1962, and to eleven-year-old Rex the world is starting to look like a pretty scary place. On TV there are reports about the Russians and a nuclear war. Some people in his new neighborhood are even building bomb shelters in their backyards.
         And that isn’t all. There is something loose in Adams Park, a menacing presence. Rex and his new friends decide it has to be captured. He has a plan…he only hopes he’s right.

Rex Zero and the End of the World is due out in the USA in the spring of 2007, published by Farrar Straus Giroux. Here’s the cover.

Published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 978-0374-33467-3
ISBN-10: 0-374-33467-6
217 pages
$16.00 USD

Declan Steeple thought the past was over.  Apparently, he was wrong. Dec is a sixteen-year-old who has it all: great  grades, dreams for the future, a loyal and wise best friend, a stepmother  who keeps her distance, and an independently wealthy father.
      
Then one day, Dec decided to hitch a ride home  from school, and he sets in motion an unsettling chain of events – a  robbery, a death, and the unearthing of sweet and dark memories.

Published in the United Kingdom by Usborne.

Also called:

 Published in the United Kingdom by Usborne.

Also called:

Brandspuren Carl Hanser, München-Wien
Drengen I Dit Braendende Hus Glyndendal, Copenhagen
Brand! Gotmer, Haarlem, a Jenny de Jonge book
La part du feu Edition Pierre Tisseyre, Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Il Ragazzo in Fiamme Mondadori, Milano

Stephen Fair
Groundwood Books, Toronto
DK Ink, New York, a Melanie Kroupa book
Harper Trophy (paperback), New York

 Also called:

Dromenvanger Gottmer, Haarlem, a Jenny de Jonge  book, 1998
Stephen l’Oscuro Mondadori, Milano, 2000
Ausgeträumt Verlag Sauerländer, Frankfurt  am Main 2001

Stephen Fair can't sleep. For the past few months his nights have been filled with nightmares about a strange treehouse, a crying baby, and a raging fire. The oddest thing is that his older brother had the same dreams years ago, just before he moved out of the house.

What is the matter with Stephen? Why do all of his mother's attempts to help only make things worse? Why did Stephen's father and brother really leave home? Thank goodness for good friends - Virginia and her flamboyant but troubled father, and Dom, Stephen's outlandish but loyal friend.

The Maestro
Groundwood Books, Toronto
Orchard Books, New York
Puffin Book (paperback), New York

Also called:

The Survival Game, Usborne, London, UK
The Flight of Burl Crow Allen & Unwin, Melbourne
De maestro Gottmer, Haarlem, a Jenny de Jonge book
Le Maestro Hachette, Paris
Il Maestro, Mondadori, Milano
Flucht in die Wälder Carl Hanser, München-Wien
Una fuga y una mentira editions SM, Madrid

Rosie Backstage
co-authored with Amanda Lewis: