Books with author David Boyle

When Wordsworth Doyle and Jessica Redd decide to make a video movie, they find that the technology is much more than they bargained for. An accident causes Wordsy to be transported back in time and onto the Titanic. Jess has to find a way to bring Wordsy back, but in order to do so she must first solve a mysterious kidnapping and deal with three vicious criminals...and she has to do it all before the Titanic comes to the diastrous end of its ill-fated voyage!

Nicholas Sparks is a "normal" fourteen-year-old who likes rock music and sports. The only problem is that something has caused him to commit a terrible act that has changed his life forever. His psychiatrist thinks she can help him, but she doesn't know the dark secret that Nicholas is carrying... Every reader will be affected by the twists and turns which Nicholas experiences as he is propelled toward a revelation that will either save him or have terrible consequences. Told through a series of interviews, reports, and letter, this challenging novel is one that the reader will find difficult to put down until the end.

Wordsworth Doyle and Jessica Redd thought that spending Christmas at a lodge in northern Ontario was a great idea - until a terrible plane crash left them stranded in the wilderness on Porcupine Mountain. However, their struggle for survival becomes almost second place when they discover the mysterious inhabitants inside the mountain. Aliens! And they have an important message that may save the earth from impending doom - if they can avoid the U.N.I.T., a mysterious government agency bent on capturing them!

Each book comes with notes for parents which highlight talking points and prompt questions. The Teaching Notes for each book provide curriculum-linked reading activities, references to comprehension and language skills strategies together with correlatations to QCA reading focuses.Cross--curricular links and activities are also provided for each book.

Twelve-year-old Max lives a thoroughly modern city life in Toronto. He has some unresolved emotional baggage over the death of his mother when he was five, and he has a less than satisfying relationship with his father, but he is handling things pretty well. Then his world falls apart when he innocently mentions seeing his step-mother with his father's business partner. Now he and his sister are being shipped off to New Brunswick to spend the summer with his grandparents while his parents work on their problems. His grandparents live on a farm opposite an island on which Champlain spent a disastrous winter in 1604. Over the course of the summer, Max's life slowly comes together with the help of his grandparents, his new friends, Tran and Caetlin, and Samuel de Champlain.