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Our Featured Author is Norma Charles, the author of All the Way to Mexico, published in April 2003.

All the Way to Mexico is Norma Charles’ 13th book for young readers. Among her previous books are the bestselling See You Later, Alligator (Scholastic, 1991), Sophie Sea to Sea (Beach Holme, 1999) and The Accomplice (Raincoast, 2001), which was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize and was also a Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” selection. Norma lives in Vancouver and writes fulltime. All the Way to Mexico is loosely based on a trip she and her family took several years ago.

Praise for Norma Charles’ previous work:
“Great storytelling!” —Nan Gregory, author of How Smudge Came

“The characters’ real-life struggles, combined with beautiful descriptions and suspense that builds throughout the story, will keep children reading until the end.” —Resource Links

Excerpt from All the Way to Mexico
“Jacob Armstrong was twelve years old and he was on a honeymoon. The honeymoon was his mother’s.

Also on the honeymoon was his mother’s new husband, Fred Finkle.

They’d been married just the day before.

To make matters crazier, Jacob’s fifteen-year-old sister Minerva was on the honeymoon as well. And so were Fred Finkle’s two kids, Barney Finkle, who was ten, and Sam Finkle, eight. They were all packed together in a car.”