Stranded

Gordo Stevens is trying to make friends at his new school and struggling to come to terms with his parents’ divorce—he’s in no mood for a week-long school trip to a remote island marine teaching station. But there are bigger problems on the horizon, like the fact that the marine biologist who runs the school suddenly has to leave the island, and their radio dies, leaving them without a link to the mainland. A pod of beached pilot whales seems doomed to perish—unless the students can find a way to get them get back to sea.

ERIC WALTERS, a former elementary school teacher, is one of Canada’s most popular authors for children and young adults. He has written more than seventy books that together have won more than a hundred awards, and talks to hundreds of young people in schools and libraries across the country each year. He is also the founder of Creation of Hope, which provides care for orphans in the Makueni district of Kenya, and lives in Mississauga, Ontario. Visit him online at www.ericwalters.net.