Johnny Kellock Died Today

Winner of the CLA Children's Book of the Year Award and CBC Radio's Young Canada Reads
It's a long, hot Halifax summer in 1959 and twelve-year-old Rosalie Norman has a guilty secret. Her no-nonsense, authoritarian mother has broken her ankle—and it's all Rosalie's fault. But news that Johnny, her teenaged cousin, has vanished pushes the accident from everyone's minds. As Rosalie and David—her strange new neighbour—search the city for Johnny, Rosalie discovers something about the love and the secrets that bind her family.

Hadley Dyer is the award-winning author of Here So Far Away and Johnny Kellock Died Today, among other books for children and young adults. She worked in the children's book industry for more than twenty years. To learn more about her, visit her online at www.hadleydyer.com.