Is this world, with oversized creatures, wise Elders and a talking tree real? Is Willow Walker real? Or is it all part of a world where legends abound? Join Sarah, Mattie and Willow Walker on their journey as they discover stories rich in the culture and traditions of Cree, Icelandic and Ojibwe people. Similar to Alice in ALICE IN WONDERLAND the youth face real issues in a world that combines enchantment and fantasy with reality. CAVE OF JOURNEYS, a juvenile fiction novel, combines legend with fantasy. They have four days to accomplish their goal in a race against time. The youth rush to visit Elders entrusted to guard rock paintings at sites throughout the Canadian Shield. Their whirlwind adventure in a flying canoe takes them to four locations. Sarah, Mattie and Willow Walker meet an ancient oak tree who recruits them to retrieve original stories of Canadian history. This magical place records the chapters of humankind through picture writing. The three adventurers stumble upon the CAVE OF JOURNEYS.

While exploring, they meet a fourteen-year-old Cree boy named Willow Walker and his First Nations family. They arrive in New Iceland, near Gimli, Manitoba. As they enter a magical cave Sarah, Mattie and their grandfather are mysteriously transported from Iceland in 2011. Join fourteen-year-old Sarah and her eleven-year-old brother Mattie as they journey one hundred years back in time. Read more ISBNĬave of Journeys (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Spirits, tricksters, ghosts and forces from beyond provide false hope, scattered clues and jumbled nightmares as Marti and the police rush to solve the murders before the killer, or killers, strike again. Is there a deeper reason for the killings? Are girls being murdered because they're Indigenous or are the murders unrelated? Why have the shadows of evil invaded the safe haven of suburbia? Stolen Spirits, a contemporary Canadian young adult murder mystery with Indigenous characters and voices provides a unique twist on murder as it addresses the untroubled, reckless attitude of youth. As a mother and writer, Marti questions why teenage girls flirt with danger.

Through her involvement with groups focused on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Marti becomes involved in a second murder case. Marti questions potential suspects and friends of the victim, Diane. Upon arrival, the Chief of Police enlists Marti's help to solve the murder of a fifteen-year old girl.

to visit her family and present at a fundraiser.

Marti Rose, international bestselling author and amateur crime solver, returns to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. They flirt with danger, meet new guys and accept rides from strangers. Stolen Spirits (Trade Paperback / Paperback)ĭiane and Stacey like to wander the city in pursuit of excitement.

Cave of Journeys by Penny Ross