Nightwalker
Maurey, left alone in the world, becomes the target of bullies and tormenters who believe he is related to the sorcerers who once inhabited the island. An unfortunate event causes Maurey’s relationship to the sorcerers to be revealed and he is sentenced to be burned alive. He and his unexpected rescuer flee for the Nightwalkers' hidden kingdom.
About the Author
K.V. Johansen has Master's Degrees in Medieval Studies and in English. Her main scholarly interests are ancient and medieval history and languages, and the history of children's fantasy literature. She held the 2001 Eileen Wallace Research Fellowship in Children's Literature from the Eileen Wallace Collection at the University of New Brunswick. She also received the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award for research in children's literature from the Canadian section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People. Johansen received the Canadian Authors' Association 2006 Lilla Stirling Award; she has had fiction titles nominated for the Silver Birch Award, the Diamond Willow Award, shortlisted for the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians Book of the Year for Children Award and included on the Ontario Library Association's "Best Bets Top Ten List" and Voya's "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" list. Her adult non-fiction book Quests and Kingdoms: A Grown-Up's Guide to Children's Fantasy Literature, has been highly praised internationally and was shortlisted for the 2006 Harvey Darton Award in the UK.
She has an arboretum in her backyard, grows exotic trees indoors, watches lot of anime, and should probably have been an eighteenth-century landscape gardener.
Nightwalker has won the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award.
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Suggested Activities
- This is Book I in the series Nightwalker. Create an outline for what you think might happen in Book II.
- Illustrate Talverdin using descriptions from the book to guide you.
- What problems might be associated with a life that spanned 300 years?