Graham McNamee Books In Order

Novels

  1. Hate You (1999)
  2. Nothing Wrong With a Three-legged Dog (2000)
  3. Sparks (2002)
  4. Acceleration (2003)
  5. Bonechiller (2008)
  6. Beyond (2012)
  7. Defender (2016)

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Graham McNamee Books Overview

Hate You

A young adult novel explores the path from hatred of an abusive father to healing as Alice learns to sing with her own true voice. Alice Silvers writes songs she can never sing, because she has a broken, ‘Frankenstein’ voice. Her father choked her years before when she got in his way while he was fighting with her mother. After that night, her mother threw him out. Alice has never seen him again. Now she’s 17. Alice has her songs, her words, her mother, her boyfriend, her life. Everything but her voice. Years have passed since that terrifying night, but Alice burns with a hate stronger than anything she’s ever known.

Nothing Wrong With a Three-legged Dog

A heartwarming middle grade novel about friendship, family, and dogs. Keath and his best friend Lynda are in the fourth grade. Some kids call Lynda ‘Zebra,’ because her mother’s black and her father’s white. And Keath is Whitey. He’s vanilla in a chocolate school where Toothpick, a bully, has it in for him. Lynda and Keath both love dogs. When Keath grows up, he wants to be a golden retriever. Dogs don’t care about what color is the right one. Dogs don’t hate anybody. Their favorite dog is Leftovers, Lynda’s three legged beagle. When he got hurt, his first owners gave up on him, but Lynda and Keath turn him into a winner, a pooch that shows Keath that sometimes it’s good to stand out, to be special, and that even when you look different, there are ways to fit in.

Sparks

Last year Todd was the smartest kid in Special Needs; this year, he was promoted to the regular fifth grade class, where they call him Retardo and Braindead. He’s really trying to keep up, but he s in danger of being sent back to Needs. Then a history project about the pygmy Ota Benga inspires Todd to use his secret strength imagination. Being promoted also meant Todd had to leave his pals behind in Special Needs, even his best friend, Eva. Why can t Eva understand that they can t be friends anymore? Why can t he stop missing her? What s the right answer to that?From the Hardcover edition.

Acceleration

It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority s Lost and Found, 17 year old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan s just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book. It s a diary filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. And Duncan can t make himself stop reading. What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman?And what if time was running out…
. From the Hardcover edition.

Bonechiller

WELCOME TO NOWHERE.

Danny’s dad takes a job as caretaker at a marina on the shore of a vast, frozen lake in Harvest Cove, a tiny town tucked away in Canada s Big Empty. If you re looking for somewhere to hide, this is it.

It s the worst winter in years. One night, running in the dark, Danny is attacked by a creature so strange and terrifying he tries to convince himself he was hallucinating. Then he learns about Native American legends of a monster that s haunted the lake for a thousand years. And that every generation, in the coldest winters, kids have disappeared into the night. People think they ran away.

Danny knows better. Because now the beast is after him.

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