Books with author Dan Green

Bennett Ryan is a superb young basketball player who propelled her team to a regional championship. But in her senior year she discovers there's a lot she doesn't know. She has to switch schools, for one thing, and learn to fit in with the team she helped defeat the previous year. What's more she confronts a far more complex world than she's been used to -- a new friend who is on the autism spectrum, as well as team-mates from a diversity of cultures. Finally she has to face her old team -- and some old assumptions -- in a dramatic playoff game. In the Swish is a coming of age story about friendship made and friendships tested set against the fast-paced world of competitive girls' basketball. Winner of the 2016 Bolen Books Children's Book Prize On the Fall 2016 edition of the CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens 2016 Ontario Library Association Best Bets program: honourable mention 2017 Snow Willow Award nominee

Explore our amazing planet! Filled with fun flaps, pull-tabs, wheels, and pop-ups, this colorful interactive book introduces children to the wonders of Earth. It starts right when our world was formed, around 4.5 billion years ago, and discusses why Earth is a “Goldilocks planet,” why it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, how oceans control our climate, how life began, and much more. Every page offers so many features for kids to play with that they’ll love learning all these fascinating facts!

When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to save the planet before 10 pm (9:30 on school nights). It's Maximum Boy!Who is he? He's Max Silver. Ordinary eleven year old by day. Superhero by, um, afternoon...Maximum Boy is all wet! He's facing his toughest challenge yet - the Soggy Underwater People. They're mean, they're green, and they smell really fishy. These creepy creatures from the lost city of Atlantis have invaded Earth's surface with one goal--World Domination. (Capital W, capital D.) But can a bunch of soggy wet guys with flippers really take over the White House? Parliament? The UN? Not if Maximum Boy has anything to say about it!

Kacey and Sara have been the best of friends since grade three. They did everything together. But then Kacey left and Sara had to learn to cope with her life after that moment. She knows everyone at school is staring and whispering about her behind her back. And the "Obnoxious Counsellor" that her parents force her to meet with thinks writing letters to Kacey in a journal will help Sara deal with her grief. Her parents and teachers are trying to convince her that life needs to get back to normal — but how can anything ever be normal again? She and Kacey had plans — college together, vacations around the world, best friends together forever. But then Kacey chose to end her life and Sara was left to try to understand what it all meant. Dawn Green's novel for young adults is an emotional and moving look at a young teenage girl's journey towards understanding after her best friend's suicide.