Storm-blast
Shortlisted for the 2005-2006 Red Cedar Book Award, Fiction
Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003
The prospect of spending summer vacation sailing in the Grenadines with his cousin Matt and his older sister Carol wasn’t an appealing one for Regan. His cousin and sister have little time for him, and the three young people never get along. Regan seems to lose every argument.
Then disaster strikes – the kids find themselves adrift on a dinghy with no food and little water, facing a furious tropical storm and voracious sharks. Their survival will depend on their resourcefulness and the work they accomplish together.
Storm-Blast is a white-knuckle tale full of adventure and…
$11.99
May 13, 2003
Curtis Parkinson grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in chemical engineering and worked in South America and in Canada for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on a sailboat and to write, a lifelong dream. As Curtis says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell off the boat one night, and the cat's story became my first book, Tom Foolery."
More picture books and short stories followed, then five young adult novels.
Curtis's first novel was Storm-Blast, the story of three lost teens adrift in the vast Caribbean Sea. Next came Sea Chase, a tale of a boy's desperate search for his father, missing from their sailboat in the night. Both were nominated for…
Man Overboard!
Curtis Parkinson
The Castle on Deadman's Island
Curtis Parkinson
Death in Kingsport
Curtis Parkinson
Sea Chase
Curtis Parkinson
Storm-blast
Curtis Parkinson
Team Park
Angela Ahn
Great
Glen Gretzky and Lauri Holomis; inspired by Wayne Gretzky; illustrated by Kevin Sylvester; foreword by Wayne Gretzky
Heart of a Champion
Ellen Schwartz
Jay Versus the Saxophone of Doom
Kara Kootstra; with illustrations by Kim Smith; afterword by Bobby Orr
Chin Music
Gregory Roberts
Reality Check in Detroit
Roy MacGregor
The Boston Breakout
Roy MacGregor
The Mystery of the Russian Ransom
Roy MacGregor
Run
Eric Walters; foreword by Deborah Ellis
Panic in Pittsburgh
Roy MacGregor
Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament
Roy MacGregor
The Ghost of the Stanley Cup
Roy MacGregor
Mystery at Lake Placid
Roy MacGregor
The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup
Roy MacGregor
Face-Off at the Alamo
Roy MacGregor
Water, Water
Cary Fagan; illustrations by Jon McNaught
Green Mountain Academy
Frances Greenslade
Champions of the Fox
Kevin Sands
Seekers of the Fox
Kevin Sands
Ghostlight
Kenneth Oppel
Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm
Angela Ahn
The Curse of the Viking Grave
Farley Mowat
Children of the Fox
Kevin Sands
Escape to Witch City
E. Latimer
Red Fox Road
Frances Greenslade
Clan
Sigmund Brouwer
