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:   

A Thief in the House of Memory

A novel
Published, fall 2004, by Groundwood Books
Paperback, ISBN: 0-88899-574-1
180 pages, (ages 11+)
$13.95 CAD

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.

“Wynne-Jones’ writing is beyond the familiar. Every device – imagery, turn of phrase, peripheral conversation – explores another facet of the central question: What kind of house do we construct of our memories? Our future? Is the mind even like a house? Images – two houses, an architectural contest, a girl wearing a burka like ‘a little blue pup tent’ – or a slice of dialogue about hermit crabs – become ways to consider identity and imagination. In this prose, nothing is lost; like good poetry, each word carries its own weight and meaning.”

-- Deirdre Baker
The Toronto Star

“In Thief [Wynne-Jones] teases out half a dozen strands of story from that seductive title and expertly weaves them back into a clear and suspenseful narrative…Wynne-Jones never puts a word wrong. Whether he’s making our skin tingle with unease in the dark mansion, or making us chortle at the witty, affectionate banter of Declan’s school friends…his prose is polished to a gleam. He has perfect pitch for youthful dialogue. He can slip from confident lyricism…through the urgently suspenseful prose of a thriller to awkwardly touching adolescent poetry without a false or clumsy note.”

-- Michele Landsberg
Quill & Quire

The Boy in the Burning House
Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2000
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, a Melanie Kroupa book, 2001

Also called:

Brandspuren Carl Hanser, München-Wien, 2001
Drengen I Dit Braendende Hus Glyndendal, Copenhagen, 2001
Brand! Gotmer, Haarlem, a Jenny de Jonge book, 2001
La part du feu Edition Pierre Tisseyre, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, 2002
Il Ragazzo in Fiamme Mondadori, Milano, 2003

Stephen Fair
Groundwood Books, Toronto, 1998
DK Ink, New York, a Melanie Kroupa book, 1998
Harper Trophy (paperback), New York, 2000

Also called:

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

The Maestro
Groundwood Books, Toronto, 1995
Orchard Books, New York, 1996
Puffin Book (paperback), New York, 1998

Also called:

The Flight of Burl Crow Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, 1996
De maestro Gottmer, Haarlem, a Jenny de Jonge book, 1996
Le Maestro Hachette, Paris, 1997
Il Maestro, Mondadori, Milano, 1999
Flucht in die Wälder Carl Hanser, München-Wien, 1999
Una fuga y una mentira editions SM, Madrid, 2001

Co-authored with Amanda Lewis:

Rosie Backstage
Kids Can Press, Toronto, 1994