Carol Matas, novelist for middle grades, teens and young adults Carol Matas
Award-winning Canadian Novelist for Children, Teens and Young Adults

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MORE THAN 40 BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS!
LATEST NEWS!
Cloning Miranda
has just been sold to Stabenfeldt in Norway, for book-club sales in Norway, Sweden and Finland.

16th Edition of Jesper (Code Name Kris) 

published in 2010 by Edebé of Spain

"The really cool thing is that it's illustrated, something you rarely see in North America for YA or even middle grade fiction," says author Carol Matas, whose first Spanish edition dates from 2005, a testament to the enduring popularity of this fast-paced yet philosophical tale of the Danish resistance.

Carol Matas Behind Enemy Lines Diary of a young WWII gunner

NEW–WINTER 2012–FOR MIDDLE GRADES
Inspired by a true story of endurance and courage

Eighteen-year-old Sam Frederiksen has come a long way from the Prairies. Trained to be a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during WWII, he is shot down over France. Battered and bruised, he does survive, and joins forces with the French Resistance... only to be betrayed by one of its members.

He and other flyers from various Allied countries are rounded up by the Gestapo and held in Fresnes prison just outside of Paris.Treated as spies, rather than POWs, these men are beaten, some tortured — then sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in eastern Germany. It is here, in these wretched conditions, that Sam witnesses the darkest side of humanity — gas chambers, torture and starvation. Yet it is also here that he comes to understand the true resilience and unfathomable courage of the victims.

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Carol Matas The Edge of When NEW–FALL 2011–FOR MIDDLE GRADES

What will the future look like?

Rebecca worries about the things a normal 12-year-old girl would worry about: starting junior high, her friends, her family. But when she witnesses a kidnapping and finds herself transported into a terrifying world of the future, Rebecca not only must find her way home - she must figure out a way to alter the course of history.

"A thought-provoking and entertaining time-travel tale with a  hopeful, message about personal responsibility" - Kirkus Reviews, 2012

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