The Secrets Ebook Bundle

by Kelley Armstrong; Vicki Grant; Marthe Jocelyn; Kathy Kacer; Norah McClintock; Teresa Toten & Eric Walters

tagged: parents, orphans & foster homes, girls & women

Description

In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are made for the youngest residents, but the seven oldest girls are sent on their way with little more than a clue or two to their past and the hope of learning about the families they have never known. On their own for the first time in their lives, they are about to experience the world in ways they never imagined.

Bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, Vicki Grant, Marthe Jocelyn, Kathy Kacer, Norah McClintock, Teresa Toten and Eric Walters teamed up to create this series of linked YA novels. Readers can discover all seven Secrets in any order in this thrilling collection.

This collection includes the seven following titles:
The Unquiet Past
Small Bones
A Big Dose of Lucky
Stones on a Grave
My Life Before Me
Shattered Glass
Innocent

About the Authors

Kelley Armstrong

Vicki Grant

Marthe Jocelyn is the award-winning author and illustrator of over thirty-five books for babies, kids and teens. Her illustrated books have been shortlisted for both the Governor General's Literary Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. In 2009 she was the recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.

KATHY KACER a reçu de nombreuses récompenses pour ses livres, dont le prix Silver Birch et le Jewish Book Award. Auparavant psychologue, Kathy parcourt maintenant le monde pour sensibiliser les enfants et les adultes à l’importance de perpétuer le souvenir de l’Holocauste. Kathy vit avec sa famille à Toronto, en Ontario.

Kathy Kacer has won many awards for her writing, including the American Jewish Library Association Award. In 1999, she wrote the first book in Second Story's Holocaust Remembrance Series, The Secret of Gabi's Dresser. Since then, she's penned four other books in the series. Kacer now writes about the Holocaust for young readers and travels the country speaking about it. Kacer lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her family.

Norah McClintock was a prolific and acclaimed writer of crime and mystery novels for young readers. She won an unprecedented five Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing for Mistaken Identity, The Body in the Basement, Sins of the Father, Scared to Death and Break and Enter — an accomplishment not matched by any other YA writer. She was also nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for her non-fiction title: Body, Crime, Suspect, and for the prestigious Anthony Award for No Escape. She had 60 books published over 25 years. Sadly, Norah passed away in 2017 while at the peak of her career.

TERESA TOTEN won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada for The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B, which also won the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award, and was chosen by the International Board on Books for Young People as one of its Outstanding Books for Young People With Disabilities in 2015. She is the author of the international bestseller Beware that Girl and the acclaimed Blondes series, as well as The Game, The Onlyhouse, and, with Eric Walters, The Taming. Teresa lives in Toronto, Ontario. Visit her online at www.teresatoten.com and on Facebook, and follow her at @TTotenAuthor on Twitter.

Eric Walters is a Member of the Order of Canada and the author of over 125 books that have collectively won more than 100 awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for The King of Jam Sandwiches. A former teacher, Eric began writing as a way to get his fifth-grade students interested in reading and writing. Eric is a tireless presenter, speaking to over 100,000 students per year in schools across the country. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Age:: 12
Grade:: 8 to 12
Reading age:: 12

Editorial Review

"A compelling genealogical mystery set in 1964...Poignant and resonant, it’s an important exploration for readers seeking their own identities."

— Publishers Weekly (review for <em>A Big Dose of Lucky</em>)

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