Celebrate Gabriola authors at the Museum!

 

An outdoor bash with lots of local Gabriola authors and publishers at the Gabriola Museum. Music and food. Should be fun. Hope you'll join us!

A 3-star review by CM Materials

 "Unique and engaging"

⭐⭐⭐✰✰

"An interesting and distinctive story that successfully brings the plight of the Cathars to life for a young audience."

"Recommended" by CM: Canadian Review of Materials.

Full review here (CM Association).

Plaudits for Love and Courage in Troubled Times!

"What's your father's book about again?" Megan asks.

"It's about a crusade and inquisition in the South of France that happened hundreds of years ago. People called Cathars were stuffed into churches and burned alive because of their beliefs. I don't know why he is even interested in such horrible events. What happened way back then was awful, but it has nothing to do with today. It's totally irrelevant."

But of course Lesley, the narrator, is mistaken. The horrible events of long ago are relevant. In fact, long ago is still happening. Long ago is today...

Phyllis Reeve, Gabriola Island's book reviewer extraordinaire, describes with great eloquence what makes Charlotte Cameron's new YA novel so special. Click here to read the full review.

Print copies are now available on Gabriola Island at the bookstore of:

Now available at Pages bookstore on Gabriola

A Coming-of-Age YA Novel

“Gripping and informative – a perfect combination.”

“A tale that will not only thrill young readers but also reveal the strength of the human spirit.”

“What happened in the Age of the Troubadours becomes relevant to our own Troubled Times.”

GET YOUR PRINT COPY AT PAGES BOOKSTORE ON GABRIOLA ISLAND, BC

FREE Study Guide to Running: The Alex Decoteau Story

ATTENTION TEACHERS OF ABORIGINAL & MÉTIS STUDIES (GRADES 5 AND UP)

Now available for download! FREE Study Guide to Charlotte Cameron's inspiring play about an aboriginal World War One hero.

The Study Guide has everything you need to bring Running: The Alex Decoteau Story alive for your students, while teaching them language arts, history, maths, research skills and more.

Click here to download your free Study Guide.

Author/playwright Charlotte Cameron featured in BC BookLook

Author Charlotte Cameron at the lodge where author Malcolm

Lowry and his wife once stayed on Gabriola Island, BC.

(Photo: Tom Cameron)

BC BookLook has featured author Charlotte Cameron's fascination with Malcom Lowry, best known for his novel, Under the Volcano. Her interest led her to write a play about the Lowry's entitled October Ferries to Gabriola and is putting Lowry on the literary map of BC (a BC Bookworld initiative).

Charlotte Cameron is the author of Running: The Alex Decoteau Story, published by Fictive Press in 2014.