Jonsberg, Barry

Highly recommended for tweens and teens, but there are no barriers to using this with younger readers, too.

Purchase for libraries where YA thrillers and mysteries are popular.

Gr 9 Up—This book about the importance of story in one's life has two narrative arcs...

Gr 7 Up—A 16-year-old boy with intermittent explosive disorder and a fondness for the comforts of home finds the remoteness and lack of electricity at his grandfather's house in Tasmania an added hardship to his sentence for causing an episode in a Melbourne fast-food restaurant that resulted in thousands of dollars of damage...