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Eric Walters


Eric Walters’ young adult novels have won numerous awards, including the Silver Birch, Blue Heron, Red Maple, Snow Willow, and Ruth Schwartz Awards, and have received honours from UNESCO’s international award for Literature in the Service of Tolerance. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario.

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My Name Is Blessing
Written by Eric Walters
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

Hardcover | 32 pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - People & Places - Africa; Juvenile Nonfiction - Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings; Juvenile Nonfiction - Family - Orphans & Foster Homes
978-1-77049-301-8 (1-77049-301-8)

September 10, 2013 | $19.99

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My Name Is Blessing
Written by Eric Walters, Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781770493018
Our Price: $19.99
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(Available September 10, 2013)


 Based on the life of a real boy, this warm-hearted, beautifully illustrated book tells the story of Baraka, a young Kenyan boy with a physical disability. Baraka and eight cousins live with their grandmother. She gives them boundless love, but there is never enough money or food, and life is hard...


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The Taming
Written by Teresa Toten and Eric Walters

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction - Love & Romance; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Physical & Emotional Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations
978-0-385-67658-8 (0-385-67658-1)

January 24, 2012 | $14.95

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The Taming
Written by Teresa Toten and Eric Walters

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385676588
Our Price: $14.95
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Katie likes to believe she’s invisible. It seems so much safer than being exposed as who she is: shy, poor, and vulnerable. So getting up in front of audience as the lead in her school’s production of The Taming of the Shrew should be complete torture. But as Katie tells it...

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The Taming
Written by Teresa Toten and Eric Walters

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction - Love & Romance; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Physical & Emotional Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations
978-0-385-67659-5 (0-385-67659-X)

January 24, 2012 | $9.99

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The Taming
Written by Teresa Toten and Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385676595
Our Price: $9.99


Katie likes to believe she’s invisible. It seems so much safer than being exposed as who she is: shy, poor, and vulnerable. So getting up in front of audience as the lead in her school’s production of The Taming of the Shrew should be complete torture. But as Katie tells it...

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End of Days
Written by Eric Walters

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-67006-7 (0-385-67006-0)

September 27, 2011 | $14.95

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End of Days
Written by Eric Walters

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385670067
Our Price: $14.95
   Quantity: 1 


Another riveting page-turner from Canada's favourite teen author--and this time, the adventure takes place in outer space.

It's 2012 and the world's most renowned astrophysicists, astronomers, and theoretical mathematicians have all died within the same 12-month period. But as these scientists discover, none of them are really dead after all. They have...

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End of Days
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-67007-4 (0-385-67007-9)

September 27, 2011 | $9.99

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End of Days
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385670074
Our Price: $9.99


Another riveting page-turner from Canada's favourite teen author--and this time, the adventure takes place in outer space.

It's 2012 and the world's most renowned astrophysicists, astronomers, and theoretical mathematicians have all died within the same 12-month period. But as these scientists discover, none of them are really dead after all. They have...

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Alexandria of Africa
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | 208 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-307-37460-8 (0-307-37460-2)

July 27, 2011 | $9.99

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Alexandria of Africa
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307374608
Our Price: $9.99


For Alexandria Hyatt having a fabulous life is easy: she knows what she wants and she knows how to get it. Being glamorous and rich is simply what she was born to be. When Alexandria is arrested for shoplifting, having to drag herself into court to face a judge just seems...

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Shaken
Written by Eric Walters

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67081-4 (0-385-67081-8)

January 4, 2011 | $14.95

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Shaken
Written by Eric Walters

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385670814
Our Price: $14.95
   Quantity: 1 


A novel from one of the country's most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during the January 2009 earthquake, follows the struggle of Joshua, a Canadian boy at the centre of the tragedy.

Fifteen-year-old Joshua has travelled from Toronto to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in order to help with...

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Shaken
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67152-1 (0-385-67152-0)

January 4, 2011 | $11.99

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Shaken
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385671521
Our Price: $11.99


A novel from one of the country's most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during the January 2009 earthquake, follows the struggle of Joshua, a Canadian boy at the centre of the tragedy.

Fifteen-year-old Joshua has travelled from Toronto to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in order to help with...

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Beverly Hills Maasai
Written by Eric Walters

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66903-0 (0-385-66903-8)

September 7, 2010 | $14.95

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Beverly Hills Maasai
Written by Eric Walters

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385669030
Our Price: $14.95
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In his sequel to Alexandria of Africa, Eric Walters brings exciting new characters to life, with the urban jungle of Los Angeles as their backdrop.

It's the ultimate clash of cultures when Nebala, a Maasai warrior, leaves behind Kenya and, with two fellow Maasai, and crosses the world to compete in a...

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Beverly Hills Maasai
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | 208 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66904-7 (0-385-66904-6)

September 7, 2010 | $9.99

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Beverly Hills Maasai
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385669047
Our Price: $9.99


In his sequel to Alexandria of Africa, Eric Walters brings exciting new characters to life, with the urban jungle of Los Angeles as their backdrop.

It's the ultimate clash of cultures when Nebala, a Maasai warrior, leaves behind Kenya and, with two fellow Maasai, and crosses the world to compete in a...

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Tell Me Why
Compiled by Eric Walters

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67341-9 (0-385-67341-8)

June 4, 2010 | $11.99

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Tell Me Why
Compiled by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673419
Our Price: $11.99


A powerful, inspiring book for any young person who wants to make a difference.

“I just want to know: why do you think that people treat each other the way that they do? Is there something that happened to you that made you want to help people? And, finally, what, if anything...

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Safe As Houses
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | pages | Seal Books | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-67340-2 (0-385-67340-X)

May 14, 2010 | $8.99

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Safe As Houses
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673402
Our Price: $8.99


The date is October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Weston, is a typical grade 8 girl. She has a secret crush on a boy in her class and she thinks Elvis Presley is "dreamy." Elizabeth also has a part-time job babysitting an adorable little grade...

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We All Fall Down
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | pages | Seal Books | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-67342-6 (0-385-67342-6)

May 14, 2010 | $9.99

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We All Fall Down
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673426
Our Price: $9.99


A novel from one of the country’s most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen’s life and relationships.

Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the...

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Wave
Written by Eric Walters

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-385-66443-1 (0-385-66443-5)

December 1, 2009 | $14.95

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Wave
Written by Eric Walters

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385664431
Our Price: $14.95
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It's December 2004 and Sam and his parents are leaving frostbitten Ontario for a vacation in lush, sun-soaked Thailand. Sam's sister Beth is staying behind. She drives her family to the airport to bid them farewell, not knowing that what awaits them is a natural disaster of unimaginable proportions.

Over the next...

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Wave
Written by Eric Walters

eBook | 208 pages | Doubleday Canada | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-307-37265-9 (0-307-37265-0)

December 1, 2009 | $9.99

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Wave
Written by Eric Walters

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307372659
Our Price: $9.99


It's December 2004 and Sam and his parents are leaving frostbitten Ontario for a vacation in lush, sun-soaked Thailand. Sam's sister Beth is staying behind. She drives her family to the airport to bid them farewell, not knowing that what awaits them is a natural disaster of unimaginable proportions.

Over the next...

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