Awards

• Short-listed for Iowa Teen Award 2006
• Winner of Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award 2005

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This is a well-written and gripping book that deals realistically with the depression and emotional turmoil that follows an intense trauma. --The Observer (12/01/2003) This moving, chilling tale of a young man's loss and regaining of self-worth proves an excellent and worthwhile example of supernatural literature. --KLIATT (03/01/2004) An outstanding job. --VOYA (12/01/2003) High school life is described with pin-point accuracy...A great choice for senior high school fiction collections. Highly Recommended. -- (09/19/2003) The story is a strange mix of the simple and the haunting...chilling and effective. -- (10/01/2006) Both halves of the book will engage the target audience. --Publisher's Weekly (09/29/2003) This is a well-developed novel that shatters the teen perceptions of invincibility, as well as dealing with loss, handicaps, and positive ways to break through grief. --Library Media Connection (04/01/2003)

This moving, chilling tale of a young man's loss and regaining of self-worth proves an excellent and worthwhile example of supernatural literature. --KLIATT (03/01/2004) The story is a strange mix of the simple and the haunting...chilling and effective. -- (10/01/2006) This is a well-developed novel that shatters the teen perceptions of invincibility, as well as dealing with loss, handicaps, and positive ways to break through grief. --Library Media Connection (04/01/2003) An outstanding job. --VOYA (12/01/2003) High school life is described with pin-point accuracy...A great choice for senior high school fiction collections. Highly Recommended. -- (09/19/2003) Both halves of the book will engage the target audience. --Publisher's Weekly (09/29/2003) This is a well-written and gripping book that deals realistically with the depression and emotional turmoil that follows an intense trauma. --The Observer (12/01/2003)

An outstanding job. --VOYA (12/01/2003) This moving, chilling tale of a young man's loss and regaining of self-worth proves an excellent and worthwhile example of supernatural literature. --KLIATT (03/01/2004) High school life is described with pin-point accuracy...A great choice for senior high school fiction collections. Highly Recommended. -- (09/19/2003) The story is a strange mix of the simple and the haunting...chilling and effective. -- (10/01/2006) Both halves of the book will engage the target audience. --Publisher's Weekly (09/29/2003) This is a well-developed novel that shatters the teen perceptions of invincibility, as well as dealing with loss, handicaps, and positive ways to break through grief. --Library Media Connection (04/01/2003) This is a well-written and gripping book that deals realistically with the depression and emotional turmoil that follows an intense trauma. --The Observer (12/01/2003)

This is a well-developed novel that shatters the teen perceptions of invincibility, as well as dealing with loss, handicaps, and positive ways to break through grief.

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Bruce McBay collaborated with James Heneghan on Waiting for Sarah, his first book with Orca. He is the department head of Learning Support Staff at a Burnaby Secondary School and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. A former fingerprint specialist with the Vancouver Police Department, James Heneghan was one of Canada's foremost authors of historical fiction for children and young adults. His books won numerous awards, including the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Award three times for Flood, Wish Me Luck and The Grave.

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