50% OFF! - MG - Doppelganger + Picturing Alyssa (by Alison Lohans)

Paperback
12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in)

Connor is on a cruise to Greece and Turkey! True, Dad couldn’t come, and he’s sharing a cramped cabin with his mom and bratty little sister. But he has his game “Doppelganger” keep him company when things are too quiet. Oddly, some of their fellow passengers regard him as a troublemaker – even though he hasn’t done anything wrong! And when he goes ashore, sometimes shopkeepers yell at him in Greek and Turkish! There’s another kid on board - who somehow ends up wearing Connor’s favourite soccer shirt. And that boy looks exactly like him…!

Paperback
12.7 x 20.3 cm (5 x 8 in)

Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself flung back in time to an Iowa farm in 1931. The past is much nicer than Alyssa’s present life, with her mother severely depressed after the stillbirth of her sister, bullying by a popular girl at school, and a teacher who is unsympathetic towards Alyssa’s family’s pacifist beliefs.

Somehow Alyssa always gets yanked back to the present. And the past isn’t perfect either, with so much work, and Deborah’s mother about to have a baby too. Worse, Alyssa’s old family photographs show alarming things about her family in the past. Can she stay on top of the problems in both places?

Finalist: Saskatchewan Book Awards, Children’s Literature category
Finalist: Saskatchewan Book Awards, City of Regina Book Award

Alison Lohans appreciates funding from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, which provided assistance for the writing of Picturing Alyssa.