Book description
Mountains, travel, adventure Amelia Hammer wants it all. Instead, her
globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone,
Ontario, in the middle of winter with her grandmother and her geeky
cousin Simon. Simon isn't having much fun either, saddled with a sulky
stranger in black leather and with neon hair. And he has to be nice to her.
But life in safe little Dunstone turns dangerously exciting when Mara
comes to town. Amelia is enchanted by this tall, proud, fearless girl,
but Simon worries that Mara might be mixed up in something weird. Hes
right. Mara is not what she seems, and neither is the shape-shifting
assassin whos tracking her. When the cousins take Mara's side in a war
for an alien world, Amelia has to spread her wings literally and Simon
must find out how far he will go to save a cousin who has become a friend.
Patricia Bow lives in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband, Eric,
and a small but fierce cat named Pooka. By day a writer of serious
prose for the University of Waterloo, by night she maps worlds of the
imagination. Her children's fantasy The Bone Flute was
shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association's 2006 Silver Birch Award.
