Books published by publisher Tradewind Books

Leroy "Doodlebug" Barnstable likes to call himself the quickest draw in the west—with a crayon. It's 1923 and Doodle is on the run from a couple of abusive cousins. He stumbles into a travelling Chautauqua show where it's easy to get lost in a crowd—but also easy to lose your heart. This funny and endearing novel by Governor General's Award-winning novelist Glen Huser will make an absorbing read for fourteen and fifteen year olds, boys and girls alike.

The massive explosion in which Eleanor Chamberlain died at her research laboratory was seen as a tragic accident. Or was it the perfect crime? Two years later, Jake and Lydia discover a mysterious camera, capable of taking pictures of the distant past... and the future. As they uncover the shocking truth and learn secrets that people will kill to protect, Jake and Lydia are soon propelled into a deadly and desperate race against time to save the future.

Fourteen-year-old Bing is upset with his father for forcing him to help him dig up the bones of Chinese men and women in order to send them back to China. After they discover a skeleton without a skull, Ba is haunted by the powerful ghost. Later Bing gets a job as houseboy for a wealthy family, where he finds another ghost haunting the family. Bing is finally able to find out what both ghosts want from the living and rescues his father from impending death.

Marcelina lived in a small cage on the balcony of Senor Raul's cantina in Mexico City. Every day she would lay eggs and Senor Raul would turn them into delicious huevos rancheros for his customers. Senor Raul loved to sing. Every night he would serenade Marcelina with his sweet songs. Every night Marcelina would dream of the day when she would not have to live in a cage.

17-year-old Sherri arrives in the resort town of Lewton excited for a summer working as a student reporter. Instead, she finds a creepy ghost town. Local stores are closing, sometimes overnight. Owners are vanishing, and reappearing as smiling, happy workers at the new big box store, Shopwells. Are dark forces at play to keep the locals working in a state of cult-like submission?

Eric isn't happy when he has to spend the summer with his eccentric father, Septimus Trinket, in the backwater village of Middle Wogglehole, deep in the heart of rural Derbyshire. And things are not quite what they seem to be in the isolated village—mysterious happenings have plagued Middle Wogglehole for years. After they discover Septimus' shocking secret, Eric and Jessica must fight for their lives against powerful evil forces—in a world very different to their own.