Awards

• Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Awards: Text 2002 (Canada)
• Short-listed for Rocky Mountain Book Award 2004 (Canada)
• Winner of Hackmatack Award 2004 (Canada)
• Winner of Mr. Christie's Book Award 2003 (Canada)

Overview

Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award Owen Skye is skinny and quiet and has big ears. He does everything (just about) his older brother, Andy, says, while trying to stay one step ahead of little brother Leonard, who has now started school and is becoming smart at an alarming pace. The Skye brothers live in a small rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, an eccentric and painfully shy bachelor who sleeps on a cot in the basement, takes out his teeth at night and embodies Owen's worst fears about becoming a grownup. On his way home from hockey practice one evening, Owen catches a glimpse of a girl named Sylvia at her piano lesson, and he falls hopelessly in love. Thank goodness for life at home, where there are brothers to talk to and plot adventures with. Yet the Skye boys somehow have a knack for turning every innocent plan into a full-scale ordeal.

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9780888998675

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Reviews

[Shows] a zany style and deep insight into the secret lives of boys ... Their adventures are, by turns, funny, frightening, and genuinely dangerous ... This book is funny, and it would be a splendid read-aloud or read-alone choice.

Author Information

Alan Cumyn has written many highly acclaimed novels for both children and adults. He teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently chair of the Writers' Union of Canada.Visit Alan Cumyn's website:http://alancumyn.com/

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