Margaret J. McMaster

Wry observations on friendship, the fragility of love and survival, and the unfathomable scope of human behaviour in a collection of poems, short stories, a play, and a song. Included in the ensemble is the tale of a WW2 bomber crew's daring escape; a complicated romance in a retirement residence; and, the youthful lament of a tangled friendship. The Exact Likeness of Living Persons swings from the laughable and ironic, to the deadly serious, much like life itself. About the Author: ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Margaret J. McMaster published her first book of middle-grade fiction, Carried Away on Licorice Days, in 2008. It was nominated for three literary awards: the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award, the 2010/2011 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award, and the 2011 Rocky Mountain Book Award. In 2009 she started writing the Babysitter Out of Control! series. These amusing, fast-paced adventures include: Babysitter Out of Control!, Looking for Love on Mongo Tongo, The Improbable Party on Purple Plum Lane, What Happened in July, The Sinking of the Wiley Bean, and, The Queen of Second Chances. The Complete Babysitter Out of Control! Series, published in 2015, was long-listed for the 2016 Silver Birch Award, was a Best Books for Kids & Teens selection, and won the GOLD MEDAL in the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Early Reader/1st Chapter Books category. McMaster is a past contributor to the Canadian Children's Annual and her creative non-fiction piece, After All These Years, was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Award. So Much Potential, a novel set in the Lake Erie fishing industry, was published in 2013. It was a Best Book for Kids & Teens *Starred* Selection. The first book in her Phoebe Sproule series, 8 Days in DUMBO, was named one of *The Year's Best* by Resource Links and won an Honourable Mention in the 2019/2020 Reader Views Literary Awards. The sequel, The Haunting of Cedar Hill Plantation, was released in 2020 and won a Bronze Medal in the Reader Views Literary Awards. Books by This Author: Teen Fiction: So Much Potential Juvenile Fiction: The Haunting of Cedar Hill Plantation 8 Days in DUMBO Carried Away on Licorice Days Early Chapter Books: Babysitter Out of Control! Looking For Love on Mongo Tongo The Improbable Party on Purple Plum Lane What Happened in July The Sinking of the Wiley Bean The Queen of Second Chances The Complete Babysitter Out of Control! Series

The Exact Likeness of Living Persons

The Complete Babysitter Out of Control! Series

"Bad luck threatens to sink a wedding after Stewart and Colonel Peabody dig up an unusual figurehead"--From the publisher.

The Sinking of the Wiley Bean

It's supposed to be a summer getaway at her relatives' plantation in Nashville but Phoebe quickly discovers that her cousin Baxter is desperate to find a treasure hidden during the Civil War and his sister Rachel's relationship with her boyfriend is on the rocks. Underneath it all is a plantation that hasn't put its past to rest, and the aftermath of a deadly tornado is about to reveal the truth.

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