Books with author CC Taylor

Eleven-year-old Jeremy's got good reason to get out of the house and get out of the present - demanding letters from a father he hasn't seen since he was four have got his mother really upset. He turns again to his grandfather's stamp album and the magical magnifying glass that took him on adventures to the past After a brief, frightening trip to a storm-tossed Bluenose, Jeremy picks up the stamp depicting the Matthew, the small ship that John Cabot sailed in to discover eastern Canada. Not only does Jeremy witness the answer to several questions that have puzzled historians about Cabot, but he bumps into a very surprising visitor on the Matthew. This exciting adventure story is fit for those with an interest in sailing ships, important moments in Canadian history, or just in a great fantasy yarn by a master Canadian storyteller.

Young Meg is staying at her granmother's house while recovering from rheumatic fever. Her grandmother gives her an old doll, and whenever Meg falls asleep with the doll, she is transported back in time, to a covered wagon traveling west, and she is part of another family in this time period. When she falls asleep with the doll, she is back to present time. Meg learns that the doll is giving her a choice whenther about whether to stay in the historic time in order to change a family's history, or to stay in the present time.

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.