Author(s): Allan Stratton

Young Adult Fiction

Description: Out of the corner of my eye, I catch something moving by the barn. When I look, it disappears. Wait, There it is again, at the cornfield. Some movement, some thing. Mom and I have been on the run for years. Every time he catches up with us, we move to a new place and start over. But this place is different. 'Painful and powerful in equal measure - as it should be. An extraordinary literary achievement.' Michael Morpugo

Author Biography: Allan Stratton is the internationally acclaimed author of Chanda's Secrets, winner of over twenty-six awards and citations including the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Honor Book and the Children's Africana Book Award. The companion novel, Chanda's Wars, won the Canadian Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults Award and was an American Junior Library Guild selection. The film adaptation of Chanda's Secrets, Life, Above All, premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2010, where it won the Francois Chalais Prize. It was South Africa's official entry for the 2011 Oscar for best foreign language film. Allan's other YA and children's novels are Curse of the Dream Witch, winner of the 2014 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award; the ALA Best Fiction novels Borderline and Leslie's Journal; and the Governor General's Award nominee, Junior Library Guild selection (USA), and Times of London Book of the Week The Grave Robber's Apprentice. Allan has been on safari in Africa; hiked the Great Wall of China; flown over Cappadocia in a balloon; explored pyramids in Egypt, temples in Cambodia, Incan ruins in the Andes, and Viet Cong tunnels in Vietnam. He lives in Toronto with hi