Books published by publisher Wonderdog Press

All-in-one creative writing curriculum for students 8 years and up. In this independently used, consumable workbook, an interactive, fun-loving pirate story teaches students the basic elements of a story. Credentials: Written by a story designer with over a decade of experience training creative story professionals. Engaging: Not boring or dry but captivating--students want to do the work. Educational: While fun, the material is not fluff. This is a serious curriculum that teaches the fundamental building blocks--the grammar--of a story. It builds creativity, improves imagination, and develops the storytelling skills that are of increasing value in today's world. Progressive Exercises: The exercises are designed to lead a student, step-by-step, to an understanding of each topic. Students learn by doing. Teacher Friendly: This simple to facilitate curriculum was designed for students to work through independently, at their own pace. The teacher's role is to oversee the process, to encourage and support, and most of all to listen to the creativity that comes out of their students. Course of Study: Flexible. Can be used as a single semester or year long course. Most use this as a stand alone elective, for others it complements a non-fiction writing course. Satisfies several Common Core requirements. Age: 11 and up can use this workbook independently. Age 8-11 may require additional parent or teacher support. Results: The lessons and exercises will build your student's confidence to tell stories of their own.

Zaki is a long distance runner. But now he’s in the care of his psychiatrist who believes that his patient can only come to grips with the terrible events in which he was involved by writing about them. Slowly, reluctantly, Zaki begins to open up and examine his life, family, and friendships… especially his relationship with Deon. Zaki’s journal is a fascinating account of adolescent friendships, the struggle for individuality, and tragic loss.

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send Alex Salt to London, England in the year 1558, when Elizabeth the First held the throne. Something has gone very wrong in the road of time for, in modern day New York City, as mass wave of juggling has taken over the population. And it’s terrible juggling too, causing an epidemic of injuries. Somehow, Alex must show Master Tallboy that he can perform for ‘Good Queen Bess’ as a jongleur and not wind up in the Tower waiting for his own execution. It all hinges on a terrifying wager of enormous stakes and three turnips!!

Deep below the White House in Washington, D.C., there is a top-secret room that houses the Worldwide Wonderdog Web Headquarters. In this busy hub of operations, Milo the Wonderdog and his able assistant, Winston, scan the globe, searching for any potholes in the road of time. Whenever their amazing machines detect one of these potholes, they enlist the aid of a child to travel back in time and make things right.In this adventure, they send 11-year-old Donny Beck hurtling back to the 1400s for a meeting with Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest adventurers and scientists of all time. Leonardo is having trouble getting his flying machine off the ground, and it's up to Donny to help him. If he doesn't succeed, it will change the history of aviation. Will Donny and Leonardo discover the secret of flight? Milo (the masterful black-and-white sheltie) and Winston (the inventive pug) can only watch and wait -- and hope for the best.

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.Nominated for Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award 1994 Canadian Children's Book Centre "Best Choice!" • Review - Canada Schoolnet "In Looking for a Hero, David Boyd presents us with Nicholas, a character burdened with a deep secret that is gradually revealed through the efforts of the physician assigned to his case. Through a series of interview transcripts, reports and letters, we learn that Nicholas has been referred for psychiatric assessment following a terrible act. The author skillfully leads the reader through a series of twists and turns, to confront a scenario that is as tragic as it is thought-provoking. Although the crime is dreadful, we come to a fuller understanding of the motivation, as well as a fuller realization of what it is to be, or to have, a hero. Looking for a Hero is a contemporary novel that kept this reviewer hooked right to the end."

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice; “I’ve become one of the undead!”A horrible plague has spread across Britain, infecting some of its citizens with zombieism. The British, however, have not given themselves over to upset, but have discovered a method for controlling the plague: a serum that halts the infection in the living, and restores self-control (most of the time) to the undead.On one golden afternoon, gentleman zombie Charles Dodgson tells Alice Liddell and her two sisters a story, the tale of how dear little Alice (who is rather a troublemaker) comes to the mythical homeland of the zombies, Underland, and her adventures there.Will she escape? Or will Mr. Dodgson, as the story progresses, consume them all?The Queen of Stilled Hearts begins the story of Alice’s Adventures in Underland. It is continued in the second book, The Knight of Shattered Dreams, in which a tale is told of a certain looking-glass…For older teens and up. Some gore and violence--not recommended for younger readers.

Fifteen-year-old MacKenzie Kuper finds relief from his troubled relationship with his stepfather via the Internet. "MacKid," as he calls himself, meets "2Cool" in cyberspace, and the two quickly become good friends. Unfortunately, events from the past and the present propel the boys into their own life-and-death situations. Told through a series of interviews, reports, letters, memos, and cyberchat, this book will keep readers enthralled as they follow Mac through his painful journey to maturity. Second in the trilogy which began with the award-winning Looking For A Hero.Nominated for the Governor-General's Literary Award: Children's Text 1996 Nominated for the Blue Heron Award 1996 Canadian Children's Book Centre "Best Choice!" • Review - The Globe & Mail "Boyd unravels a psychological mystery of great complexity. It is a bravura performance that also encompasses numerous contemporary issues without ever becoming an 'issue' novel. The paradox of Bottom Drawer is that a novel with what seems like a case of attention-deficit disorder, a novel of bits and bytes, can move with such steadiness and grace towards its very satisfying resolution. As a novel, it is daring and deep. Bravo." • Review - The Toronto Star "...a powerful, sophisticated book..."

No idea is so good it can’t go bad.Frank Mallory is a private detective working for a new type of national detective agency: a well-organized one. Private Eyes, Inc., has the latest in data analysis, training techniques, cross-discipline integration, illicit back-door deals, and cynical programmers who don’t care what they have to do as long as they don’t lose their benefits while doing it. PEI has it all covered.The right mix of idealism and plausible deniability can work wonders.But that doesn’t mean that Frank’s in the clear when he starts work on a case involving the new designer drug Mindsight. Mindsight is a miracle drug. It won’t give you telepathy, but it comes close, triggering a wave of pure empathy that helps treat everything from domestic violence to schizophrenia.The problem is, if you take too much of it, you’ll understand someone else’s point of view…all the way to death.Of course a serial killer starts butchering Mindsight addicts. As if nobody could see that coming. All he has to do is ask nicely. And maybe offer a little something the victim can’t refuse.The real twist is when a Mindsight addict fights back…and takes down a cop, saying that he admitted to being the serial killer before he died.Frank’s hired to find solid, incontestable proof that the man, someone he used to work with, is actually the murderer, so a rich man’s daughter, the purported victim, can walk free.Seems straightforward, right?Right.Book 1 in the Company Justice series, starring Frank Mallory.

“What everyone want to see,” the crow said, “is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it.”A flock of crows saves a young girl from her mother, who made a deal with dark spirits—her daughter's life in exchange for sorcerous power. But it’s the middle of winter and the middle of a blizzard, and the dark spirits aren’t exactly going to leave them alone out in the abandoned junk yard where the crows have been hiding her.Can old Machado the crow keep the girl alive? More importantly, can he make sure that she never becomes the monster that her mother is?Seventeen tales that tell the truth about what a monster is, what a true monster does, and how to free souls from the monsters all around it…

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it’s on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes. At the end of the bridge are the fairies…Della Rae is only in this podunk Midwestern university town for the full-ride biology scholarship she’s getting. In a year or two, she’s going to Oxford as an exchange student, she knows it. Her eventual goal: to cure cancer. Only life doesn’t go like that. The way you planned.Something’s going on in the basement of the science building, something that’s tied up every single professor and sends the summer work-study students running. Rumors are going around that the professors are performing a vivisection. And nobody wants to see that.But it’s probably not going to be performed on the lab rats. Because this town has always had something weird going on. Something that involves Della Rae’s best friend, Merc, and a few other kids in town, all with the same face…

After the looking-glass...Comes the clockwork!Wonderland, built on the back of a giant clock, is winding down, and only Alice can rewind it.But between her and the winding-key is a war between Wonderlanders, none of whom wish to be slaves to the clockwork any longer.Who will win? Will Alice find her way to the key?Or will an older version of Alice, the dull and boring grown-up one, find a way to stop her?For fans of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, a terrifying and wonder-filled new adventure!Get it now!

SPOOKY SHORT FICTION - PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal to the gory, surprise twists, black humor, bad puns, dark dreamlands, old myths, thrillers, chillers, and illers. Twilight Zone stories, dark fantasy stories, Black Mirror stories, and far-future dystopias. Short & sweet…monsters & meat.(For teens and up.)