Bruce McBay collaborated with James Heneghan on Waiting for Sarah, his first book with Orca. He is the department head of Learning Support Staff at a Burnaby Secondary School and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. A former fingerprint specialist with the Vancouver Police Department, James Heneghan was one of Canada's foremost authors of historical fiction for children and young adults. His books won numerous awards, including the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Award three times for Flood, Wish Me Luck and The Grave.
An outstanding job.-- "VOYA"
Both halves of the book will engage the target audience.--
"Publisher's Weekly"
High school life is described with pin-point accuracy...A great
choice for senior high school fiction collections. Highly
Recommended.-- "CM Magazine"
The story is a strange mix of the simple and the
haunting...chilling and effective.-- "Resource Links"
This is a well-developed novel that shatters the teen perceptions
of invincibility, as well as dealing with loss, handicaps, and
positive ways to break through grief.-- "Library Media
Connection"
This is a well-written and gripping book that deals realistically
with the depression and emotional turmoil that follows an intense
trauma.-- "The Observer"
This moving, chilling tale of a young man's loss and regaining of
self-worth proves an excellent and worthwhile example of
supernatural literature.-- "KLIATT"
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