Bøker av Elise Abram

Morgan is thrilled when her teacher assigns her Science project: to plant and grow a blueberry bush. All she dreams about is the fluffy, juicy blueberry pancakes she'll make with the harvest. She plants the blueberry bush but awakes the next day to find it's been stolen. With the help of her best friend, Kyra, Morgan sets out to investigate the theft of her blueberry bush, but they soon discover there's a thief in the neighbourhood, and no one's plants or lawn ornaments are safe. Will Morgan ever find her blueberry bush? Will she ever get to taste her mother's famous blueberry pancakes made with her very own blueberries?Read Operation: Blueberry Pancake to find out!Curious to know what happened to Morgan's blueberry bush along the way? Don't miss Blueberry's Big Adventure included as a bonus story!Also inside: Morgan's Mother's Famous Blueberry Pancake Recipe!

Branded the Bay Street Bomber after getting involved with a gang of eco-terrorists, Judith flees with Cain to Niagara Falls. Confined to Jo-Jo's compound, Judith longs to do nothing more than see the falls and spend time with Cain, but he's always off campus, doing Jo-Jo's bidding. The more Judith fights her situation, the further she is implicated in Jo-Jo's crimes. It's not until one of Jo-Jo's kids disappears that she realizes she must escape if she is to survive.Who, if anyone, can she trust to help her?

There's a Pond in My Backyard introduces children to the magical world of a backyard pond, where koi fish swim gracefully beneath a splashing fountain, and a curious robin red breast perches on a feeder nearby. But watch out! Danger lurks in the form of a sneaky heron who wants to make a meal out of the precious fish. With heartwarming illustrations and an engaging storyline, this charming children's picture book is perfect for young readers who love to explore the wonders of nature right in their own backyard.

Join Braelynn and her friends as they face their greatest challenge yet!>Braelynn realizes she's been chosen to fight against this force of darkness. It is her calling to navigate the dangerous world of otherworldly attachments, shapeshifters, and the mysterious troika, who follows her every move. Along the way, she meets other hunters who become her allies and friends as they battle to save the world from the chaos and destruction of Armageddon and their souls from eternal damnation. With the fate of the world at stake, they set out to defeat the fallen angel in a dangerous quest that will push them to their limits and test their strength and courage. Set in a contemporary world where magic and the paranormal are real, this thrilling tale of adventure, danger, and self-discovery will keep readers on the edge of their seats. With its thrilling blend of contemporary magical realism, paranormal and urban fantasy, the supernatural, and a touch of romance, this book is sure to leave readers eager for more.

Imagine a world where the creatures of nightmare are real. This becomes fifteen-year-old Braelynn Hanlon's world once she inherits her birthright in the form of her grandmother's ring and is tricked into putting it on. You see, the women in her family have been cursed, doomed to defend humanity from things that go bump in the night. On the upside, the ring comes with super-healing powers, but it also makes her a magnet for all things supernatural. Her mother has had years to come to terms with her fate, but Braelynn's about to get a crash course on how to be a hunter of all things paranormal. Her boyfriend, Seth, turns out to be a vampire. When Braelynn vanquishes him, the leader of Seth's gang sends a bugbear to seek revenge. If that's not bad enough, her best friend, Shannon, is a werewolf, and Shannon's girl crush is enchanted. To make matters worse, the school's activist, Winona, is an Ojibwe shaman in training, hot on the trail of a wendigo disguised as a local businessman who is threatening to destroy the local watershed. Braelynn and her friends agree to help Winona vanquish the wendigo, but will her ring and her new-found powers be enough to keep her safe?

Addison Haney finds herself in a psychiatric ward with amnesia after suffering an unknown traumatic event. Upon returning home from a woman's shelter under the care of Seph, her assigned social worker, Addison finds a matchbook sending her to Stoker's, a local Goth club where she crosses paths with Piers. Addie feels a powerful connection to Piers that she can't explain, and she's sure their relationship predates her amnesia, but no-one, neither Piers, nor Seph, nor Piers' lackey, Percival, is talking. Addison embarks on a quest to figure out who she was and her life begins to unravel. Addison suffers from a strange photosensitivity to the sun, Piers is never around during the day, Percival knows more than he's letting on, and Seph--with whom she also feels a deep and powerful connection--is not registered with social services. If that's not bad enough, people around her start to die horrible, bloody deaths. What, exactly, was her life like before the amnesia? Who are Piers, Seph, and Percival? What is the deep, dark secret they are hiding from her? More importantly, how are the misty cloud of fog following her, the string of murders, and Addison all connected?

The Sandy Hook School shooting, the Colorado movie theatre massacre...Was online gaming to blame?Psychologists believe that engaging in violent virtual gaming desensitises the player and dehumanises opponents. When the division between what is real and what is virtual becomes unclear, the results can be catastrophic.When forensic anthropologist Palmer Richardson is called to investigate an uncatalogued sarcophagus found in storage at the Royal Ontario Museum, he has his work cut out for him. Upon investigation, he discovers the mummy inside is that of a teenage boy and involves Detective Constable Michael Crestwood of the Metropolitan Toronto Police.Their investigation delves into the world of online gaming, where losing health points in a skirmish could have serious implications for a player's life in the real world.Inspired by real-life headlines, The Mummy Wore Combat Boots highlights the growing divide between children who live their lives immersed in a digital culture and the adults tasked with raising them who live in the real world.

"You know that feeling when you're totally fangirling a new YA and you want more, more, more? When you discover a new author and you just can't get enough? That's how I feel after reading Elise Abram...The New Recruit is a plot-driven emotional rollercoaster."-Maria Samurin, authorRescuing food from the dumpster to feed the hungry, spending the weekend picking up garbage in a park, and attending peaceful protests all seem like great ways to make the world a better place but...What if it's not enough?When sixteen-year-old Judith meets Cain, she has no idea what she's getting herself into. Cain is the most beautiful human being Judith has ever seen, but he hides a dangerous secret. When Jo-Jo, Cain's surrogate father, offers her a job, she accepts, unaware she's been recruited as a pawn in Jo-Jo's ecoterrorist plot.Will Judith find a way out before it's too late?Does she have a choice?In a time when jobs are scarce, politics are unstable, and the future is uncertain, all of us are vulnerable, willing to blindly follow a charismatic leader in exchange for the promise of a stable world view.

Everyone's playing the Carrington Pulitzer Revelation Chronicles Online Extended Playpack, including Bethany Wallace. No sooner has she beat the game than CSIS Agents Quinto and Nimoy show up on her doorstep (because that's not fishy). Their offer: serve her government by finding stolen and hidden secrets in the game. When Bethany accepts, she's plunged into a Matrix-like, virtual reality. Aided by friends Cole, Glen, Tariq, and Denis, she navigates the world plagued by ginormous spiders, zombies, and jellyfishnados. When some of her friends are killed only to show up later in the game in different roles, Bethany realizes she's not just in any old video game-she's in a Carrington Pulitzer video game.And she's playing the part of her hero, Carrington Pulitzer!Bethany and her remaining friends continue on their quest to find the missing documents, but when Bethany dies and wakes up in a strange hospital room, she learns there's more to her adventure than the CSIS agents have let on.Through it all, Bethany is left asking the only question that will help her survive her ordeal: What would Carrington Pulitzer do?

Aliens, ghosts, the paranormal, a glimpse at a possible future...The NexusThey say be careful what you wish for. Meet Josef Schliemann, noted expert in pseudo-archaeology who sponsors a dig beneath a historic church in downtown Toronto. Said to have been built on a tract of land sacred to prehistoric Indigenous peoples living the in the area the secrets of the site have been lost to time. Will Josef survive when he finds the object of his desire?A Morgan by Any Other NameIn a future where cloning has been perfected-sort of-Rachel, a Morgan model, should have the world at her feet, but she's not happy. What is the one thing a teenage clone desires?At the Mere Thought OfWhat happens when your worst nightmare comes true? Businessman Crane is about to find out. The Circle of LifeBob wakes up the night after attending a wild rave to find he's not himself. He wakes up, buried alive, and hungry...for flesh. One book, thirteen stories.In The Nexus and Other Stories, science fiction author Elise Abram explores the myths of the modern world.

Heddy is sad and she doesn't know why.Heddy the Hedgehog is challenged by sadness. She is grumpy, has negative thoughts, and she blames herself. But Heddy is not alone.Heddy is Sad is an excellent book for educating children, youth, parents, friends, and caregivers how to recognize when someone is suffering with depression and how to support a loved one in need.

Winner of the 2015 A Woman's Write Competition for fiction!When Alice Carroll is in grade three she narrowly escapes losing her life in a school shooting. All she remembers is the woman comforting her in the moments before the gunshot, and that one second she was there, the next she wasn't.It's bad enough coming to terms with surviving while others, including her favourite teacher, didn't, let alone dealing with the fact that she might wink out of existence at any time.Alice spends the next few years seeing specialists about her Post Traumatic Stress as a result of VD--Voldemort Day--but it's not until she has a nightmare about The Day That Shall Not Be Mentioned, disappears from her bed, is found by police,  and taken home to meet her four-year-old self that she realizes she's been time travelling.Alice is unsure if her getting unstuck in time should be considered an ability or a liability, until she disappears right in front of her high school at dismissal time, the busiest time of day. Worried that someone may find out about her problem before long, Alice enlists her best friend (and maybe boyfriend), Pete, to help her try to control her shifting through time with limited success. She's just about ready to give up when the shooter is caught. Alice resolves to take control of her time travelling in order to go back to That Day, stop the shooting, and figure out the identity of the stranger who'd shielded Alice's body with her own.