Books with author C. Taylor

An exciting suspense-filled novel about a missing child and the ongoing effect on her family. Twelve years after the unexplained mystery of her sister Melissa's disappearance, Clarice Warren still deals with the aftermath. Her dad is gone now, leaving her with a mother who can't forgive her for surviving. She had always thought that her mother's favourite was her little sister - and nothing has changed now. Melissa still gets 100% of her mother's attention even twelve years after her disappearance. Her mother can't give up hope that someday Melissa will come home. Since Clarice can't get her mother's loving attention by being a good daughter - maybe being a "bad girl" is the better approach. In another town, a young girl still has strange dreams that she can't explain - about people who mean nothing to her. She has lived with her Aunt Rosie ever since her parents abandoned her as a baby. She doesn't remember any of her life with her parents - she only remembers feeling "safe" with Aunt Rosie. She has always been isolated and sheltered but now her life is about to change: she is going to have to learn to be with other people and away from the cocoon of safety she has always known. Maybe that is why the bad dreams have returned.

It all started when Jeremy opened that stamp book that his great grandmother sent. He picked up the magnifying glass for a quick look, and the next thing he knew, he was standing on the deck of the ship! And it wasn't just one stamp that worked, it happened again. His first trip is to a paddlewheel steamer called The Northcote, which just happens to be in the middle of a battle during the Northwest Rebellion. On his next trip, aboard a ship called The Nonsuch, he's sailing through the icy waters of Hudson Bay.Jeremy realizes that he really is a "ghost" on these trips - he is invisible, although he can touch and move things - which only adds to the sailors' already-powerful suspicions about ghosts. Also, his real body stays at home, holding a magnifying glass, looking at a stamp, while he's off travelling.When his great-grandmother tells him that an ancestor was saved by a "ghostly hand", Jeremy is astonished. But when he hears that his great-grandfather used to spend hours bent over the same stamp book, just staring through the magnifying glass, his head really starts to spin!Cora Taylor has created a gripping adventure story rich with details about events in Canadian history. Coteau Books is pleased to bring this popular historical novel back into print after an eight-year absence.

Thirteen-year-old twins, one of whom has discovered a magical spell that makes her temporarily invisible, wind up on a Greek cruiseship with their grandmother, battling spies and trying to rescue their father. Jennifer Arnold is always getting her identical twin, Maggie, in trouble. Life's been difficult in their household since their pilot father went missing, and things get even worse when Jennifer finds an ancient spellbook and learns to become invisible. Then the girls get a wonderful offer - their Grandmother Arnold takes them on a cruise to the Greek islands and Istanbul. But Grandmother Arnold seems to know a lot more about the world of espionage than an ordinary grandmother ought to. The kids learn that not all the people on the ship are who they seem to be either. What's going on? The holiday cruise quickly turns into a mission to find the girls' father. With each stop, the kids learn new information about his disappearance and the danger he's in.

With dramatic full-color photos and illustrations on every page, this thought-provoking book takes young readers on a trip around the world, giving them a bird's-eye view of the planet's most endangered animals. Separate sections on two-page spreads describe each animal's relationship to its environment, the threats to its survival, and steps being taken by environmentally conscious men and woman who are trying to save each of these species from extinction. Among the endangered animals shown and discussed are-- Members of the whale family Orangutans of southeast Asia Tigers of southern Asia Pandas of China Mountain Gorillas of central Africa Polar Bears of northern Canada . . . and others The book's attractive added features include an illustrated Planet Animal Fun Quiz, a world map that locates habitats of endangered animals, and illustrated pull tabs and page flaps that present interesting sidebar information about many of the animals. Readers get an extra bonus in the form of an enclosed, full-color, fold-out tiger poster that will look great on kids' bedroom or playroom walls.

Drawn into a world of where nothing is as it seems, four young teenagers are have only their wits to deal with conspiracies that threaten their lives. Can they ignore the pleas of a mysterious Colonel X to help rescue an alien whose ship has crash landed on earth? No one can help because no one will believe them. Time is running out for the alien who might soon end up as nothing more than dissected body parts if the kids don't find a way of getting off the Air Force Base. But what do they do with him if they can get him out? Aliens aren't that easy to hide. Join in the adventure of the Conspiracy Page.

This time, twins Maggie and Jennifer Arnold are off to China to see the Terra Cotta Warriors with "Grand," their daring grandmother. Their best friend, Sam, is also along with his digital camera. And that gets them all into trouble with a gang seeking something deadly.It looks like it's going to be an uneventful "educational" trip, exploring the wonderful museum of the Terra Cotta Warriors near Xi'an. Since the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang was discovered in 1973, more than 8,000 warriors-all individually crafted-have been uncovered. In row after row they stand, lined up as if ready for battle. But Maggie, Jennifer, and Sam have barely arrived before Jennifer is scheming to get much closer to the statues. And then a couple of men in striped shirts from a German tour group run at Sam and try to grab his camera. What photos or video has he unknowingly got that they don't want anyone to see? What are they all after? And can Jennifer, Maggie, Sam, and Grand trust any of them? Can even Jennifer's magical ability to vanish save them from a truly deadly confrontation?