Melanie Jackson

The last thing Chaz wants is to spend his summer working on his father's Eye, a Ferris wheel with glass-bottomed gondolas set up to view scenic North Vancouver. For one thing, Chaz would prefer to pursue his own passion: dance in the style of the late, great Gene Kelly. More important, Chaz suffers from vertigo, and even the thought of the Eye makes him want to lose his lunch. But when a crowd of angry protestors and a mysterious vandal threaten his...

Conor loves to climb. So when the crusty old manager of a thrill ride based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" challenges Conor to scale the ride in the dark of night and hide a package at the top, he foolishly accepts. But it isn't long before he realizes that he is now involved in something far more dangerous. What is in the package, and what does it have to do with Edgar Allan Poe? And why is the town bully so terrified of the old...

Goddess in Training is a valuable guide for women no matter their age or season. Designed to inform and empower women wishing to discover and unleash their inner Goddess or simply to become more powerful and present within their own life. This unique work honors and celebrates the Divine Feminine, replete with beautiful illustrations, meditations, yoga sequences, journaling activities and poetry to support all women longing for a powerful, fulfilling,...

Medusa's Scream is a thrill-ride that hurtles a train through an out-of-service gold mine in the Fraser Valley. Chase can't believe his luck when he lands a summer job in the food truck outside the ride's entrance. But then he notices strange things happening at the old mine. Chase starts to piece things together, and soon his life is threatened by a villain even scarier than the snake-headed Medusa of myth.

Clay would much rather work as a lifeguard at the beach than at Safari Splash, the new water park in town. He's certain the summer will drag along, despite his position at the Boa, the park's fastest slide. The summer job starts to get interesting when he learns that someone has been wandering the park in a lynx costume, scaring the staff. When forty thousand dollars is stolen from the till, and his friends are under suspicion for the theft, boring...

Dinah Galloway-budding diva, enthusiastic gourmand and amateur detective-is back. This time she has taken to the high seas with a gig in the lounge of an Alaska-bound cruise ship. Also aboard are her mother and her older sister Madge, a moody professor of First Nations art, an elderly woman with romantic intentions toward an even older man, an aspiring thief with gooseberry-colored eyes, and a priceless Native mask that seems to be attracting far...

I really enjoyed the story... the great visual language and descriptions helped to paint detailed and vivid scenes in my mind as I read. Lauren (14) Ontario, Canada A good read. Dan New Brunswick, Canada I enjoyed the story very much. I would recommend it. I would like to read other Bobbie Baxter stories if you write any. Isobel (11) UK I would like to read more to find out what happens. If you do write more, can we read it? Molly and Erica (11 &...