The Novels

The Novels
The Uninvited published by Candlewick Press, distributed in Canada by Random House ISBN 978-0-7636-3984-6 353 pages (age 14 and up) $16.99 USD / $18.50 CAD 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.
Rex Zero, King of Nothing
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	published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-36259-1 ISBN-10: 0-374-36259-9 217 pages $16.95
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? Delightfully eccentric characters, humorous scenes of well-intended plans gone awry, a finely crafted plot interwoven with serious themes about love and war—this new Rex Zero is a gem!
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
A Thief in the House of Memory
published in Canada by Groundwood Books ISBN: 0-88899-574-1 180 pages, (ages 11+) $13.95 CAD	published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-40019-4 ISBN-10: 0-374-40019-9 210 pages, $8.00 USD (pb)
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: Dieb im Haus der Erinnreung, Carl Hanser, Munchen, 2007
The Boy in the Burning House
published in Canada by Groundwood Books	published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, a Melanie Kroupa book
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 Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?
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. In the end though, it is the dreams themselves that lead Stephen on a journey to uncover the secret that is haunting him and his family. This novel is another tour de force from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones.
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 Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her "little helpers" to get her through the days. Then he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the Maestro, and in just one day, this eccentric genius changes Burl's life forever.
Rosie Backstage co-authored with Amanda Lewis: Kids Can Press, Toronto

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What they’re saying about
The Uninvited

“A nervy trice-knotted pretzel of a plot that reads partly like a sexy paean to creativity and partly like a choral scream.”
-- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

“The Uninvited is a terrific book. Tim Wynne-Jones has always been one of the most perceptive and truth-telling writers about families and painful complexities; here the whole story is overlaid with a tension and mystery that makes it compelling to follow and impossible to put down.”
-- Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials

“Atmospheric, seductive and scary, The Uninvited has a powerful undercurrent that will keep you in its grips until the very end.”
-- Kenneth Oppel, author of Airborn

“Against a backlit, finely detailed landscape with scraps of myth floating in the trees above the water, Tim Wynne-Jones’s young people gawk and blunder and swear around, laughing things off, trying to work things out, proceeding towards OMG, how is this all going to end? You think you know what’s happening to them, but you don’t, not yet – no, not now, either. Keep reading. Go right to the end with them.”
-- Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels

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