Bøger af Samantha Adkins

When four-year-old, fatherless Matthew sees a dragon at his window, he screams for his mother, but instead of being comforted, he is horrified to find she has disappeared. Matthew and his sixteen-year-old sister, Jessica, must find a way to reunite their family. Matthew and Jessica struggle to survive on their own and keep their desperate situation a secret. Then, one night, a dragon captures Matthew. He is rescued by a huge eagle and flown to a far-off, mystical land where he begins the transformation into an eighteen-year-old boy. A half-beaver, half-man named Eliazer finds Matthew and teaches him to protect himself. Matthew also begins to acquire the armour he will need to fight the dragons - a sword of the word, shield of faith, boots of peace and a breastplate of righteousness.

19-year-old Laura Moore is living in Saskatoon with her boyfriend, Ian Matthews, against the wishes of their parents. Life in Saskatoon is dismal. Laura and Ian live in a dank basement apartment and work at dead-end jobs. When Ian decides he has had enough and leaves Laura to move back home, Laura has a very literary reaction. Defacing Poetry is a novella by Canadian author, Samantha Adkins, who has added nine short stories to create this haunting collection.

Jordana Simkins is a 12-year-old substitute teacher getting ready for her second day of teaching. Can she survive a technology-filled grade 2 class? What will vice-superintendent, Luella Trites, do this this time to keep Jordana from teaching well? Jordana will have to keep her wits about her to make it through this challenging day!

Twelve-year-old genius, Jordana Simkins, has decided to be a teacher. Luckily, Jordana is unusually tall for her age and has very supportive parents and a best friend named Emily to help her prepare for her first day of substitute teaching. While overcoming first-day jitters and kindergartners with wet pants, Jordana must deal with a vice-superintendent, Luella Trites, who believes Jordana is too young to teach. Ms. Trites does her best to ruin Jordana's career by insisting on extra supervision and dropping by Jordana's classroom to complain about her methods. How will Jordana make it through her first day as a substitute teacher?

Emma Woodhouse is one of Jane Austen's most beloved heroines. She is smart, well-dressed and rich. But what about Jane Fairfax, her poor, orphaned nemesis? Would the story be so light and sparkling from Jane's point of view? Suspiciously Reserved in Jane's story, set in present-day Canada. Jane has felt uncomfortable living off the goodwill of her wealthy benefactors, the Campbells. Now that their daughter has found the man of her dreams, Jane wonders what her future holds. She feels the necessity of returning to her grandmother and Aunt Hetty. Before she goes, however, she will spend one blissful week by the ocean where she meets handsome, charming Frank Churchill. But can she trust him?

Cara has never met her father. Now, on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, her mother gives her a mysterious book which will answer the questions she's held onto for years. The tells the stories of four very different young women. One of the women is her mother, but Cara is left to uncover which narrative is hers.

Eighteen-year-old Cate Morland can't seem to get enough of ghost stories. When her friends, the Allen's, invite her to stay at the Banff Springs Hotel for the Christmas holidays, she jumps at the opportunity to live among opulence and spectres. When she becomes caught between two young men; however, reality becomes more frightening than her wildest imaginings.