Treasure Hunt – Week 4
Welcome back to my Orca Book treasure hunt. Monique Polak’s fingerprints are all over Clue 4. She buried it in the title of her upcoming book about a forensic science camp. Can you dig it up?
Watch the book trailer for Betting Game
What’s inside the teachers’ guide?
Writing the author’s note made me think really hard about the book’s themes and characters. What was the most important part of the story? The takeaway? The message?
Spilling my secrets
The real-life news story that inspired Betting Game, and how an OPP expert in illegal gambling reinvented my bad guy. An interview on the Orca blog. #TuesdayTalk
Treasure Hunt – Week 3
Clue 3 in the treasure hunt got shuffled into an Orca Rapid Reads title about a professional poker player. This book, written by William Kowalski, doesn’t come out until March 8, but it’s already won a glowing review. (Sounds like a sure bet to me.)