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Soames on the Range
All his life, fifteen-year-old San Francisco Soames has been told he is just like his father. But when his father announces that he's moving in with another man, Cisco starts questioning the resemblance. To top it off, he's suspended from school for fighting - even though all he did was provide his face as the punching bag for the school bully - and then accused of putting an old man in a coma. Things go from bad to worse when his parents want to send him from their small town in Vermont to British Columbia to keep him out of trouble. Trouble is the last thing Cisco wants. All he wants is to be left alone so he can figure out just how things have gone so wrong. And British Columbia! That's two thousand miles away - who is going to keep an eye on his ten-year-old twin sisters while he's gone? Plus he'll be staying with his uncle, someone he's never even seen before, someone who runs a Rocky Mountain Dude ranch, someone who is known in the family as "Uncle Party." Things couldn't get any worse, could they?
216 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2007
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About the author
Nancy Belgue
6 books1 follower Nancy Belgue is the author of Soames On The Range (HarperCollins Canada 2007), Casey Little: Yo-Yo Queen (Orca 2005), Summer On The Run (Orca 2005) and The Scream of the Hawk (Orca 2003). The Scream Of The Hawk was nominated for a Silver Birch Award in 2005 and a Diamond Willow Award in 2005. Summer On The Run was named one of the best of 2005 by Resource Links, a CLA Notable Book for 2006 and was shortlisted for the CLA Canadian Children's Book of the Year Award. Casey Little: Yo-Yo Queen was named an Honour Book for the 2007 Silver Birch Awards.
In 2007 Nancy was one of 12 writers chosen from across Canada to appear in the second broadcast version of the 3 Day Novel Contest. For 72 hours, over Labour Day weekend, Nancy and 11 other writers wrote, ate, slept and lived in a Chapters Bookstore in Edmonton Alberta, all the while managing to complete an entire novel. The results of this literary marathon will be broadcast over several episodes on BookTelevison beginning in 2008.
Nancy's writing has appeared in magazines in both Canada and the United States. She was a winner of the Toronto Sun's column writing contest in 2001 and finalist in the New Century Writer's Awards Short Story Competition, 2001.
In addition to speaking to children as a visiting author, Nancy has been a literary/drama artist with the Learning Through The Arts program, a library assistant in Southwestern Ontario and has acted in television commercials, training videos and documentaries.
She has a B.A. in English Literature from York University.
Nancy and her family live in Kingsville, Ontario.
In 2007 Nancy was one of 12 writers chosen from across Canada to appear in the second broadcast version of the 3 Day Novel Contest. For 72 hours, over Labour Day weekend, Nancy and 11 other writers wrote, ate, slept and lived in a Chapters Bookstore in Edmonton Alberta, all the while managing to complete an entire novel. The results of this literary marathon will be broadcast over several episodes on BookTelevison beginning in 2008.
Nancy's writing has appeared in magazines in both Canada and the United States. She was a winner of the Toronto Sun's column writing contest in 2001 and finalist in the New Century Writer's Awards Short Story Competition, 2001.
In addition to speaking to children as a visiting author, Nancy has been a literary/drama artist with the Learning Through The Arts program, a library assistant in Southwestern Ontario and has acted in television commercials, training videos and documentaries.
She has a B.A. in English Literature from York University.
Nancy and her family live in Kingsville, Ontario.
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