Marty Chan Mystery

The Mystery of the Frozen Brains is adapted from Marty Chan's successful radio series The Dim Sum Diaries. Set in a French Canadian town in rural Alberta, the novel develops the coming to awareness of a Chinese boy in a community under the myriad of ethnic influences including French, English and Ukrainian and the ever present "red neck" attitude. As serious as the novel's thematic dispatch is, Chan's buoyant, gifted humor overrides the tone. After all, Marty thinks he is an alien. This is his secret, Remi Sasseville finds out, and as boys do, he forms a unique friendship with Marty. The alien invasion romp that follows is as entertaining as it is unique.

Marty Chan is back with a sequel to his award-winning juvenile romp The Mystery Of the Frozen Brains. Nine-year-old Marty and his francophone buddy, Remi Boudreau, stumble upon graffiti on the school's equipment shack and begin the adventure of tracking down the culprit. Marty spies on his classmates, wears his mom's dress to go undercover, and risks losing his best friend as the mystery of the graffiti ghoul leads him to the graveyard. With continued insight into a Chinese boy's life in a Francophone town in Alberta, Chan's humor balances the serious themes of bullying and racism that are revealed in the attitudes and actions of elementary school kids. Recognized as contemporary versions of the Hardy Boys detective novels, the books in Chan's Mystery Series are first-rate entertainment and highly recommended for kids.

When Trina's bicycle is stolen, Marty and Remi gear up to solve the case. Once they start their investigation, they are both stunned that the evidence leads them to the doorstep of their new elementary school teacher. Mr. E proves to be quite resourceful as an opponent, and the new girl at school, Ida, seemingly foils their attempts to catch the school thief. When Marty discovers that he and Remi share the same feelings toward Trina, things get complicated as they try to find out who she likes. For Marty, friendship, loyalty, and trust suddenly seem less straightforward when the mystery of girls is involved.

How do you find a bully who lurks on the Internet and lashes out at helpless victims? Intrepid kid detectives Marty, Remi, and Trina must answer that question if they're to stop a cyber-bully targeting their classmates. In their toughest case yet, the sleuths must follow the electronic trail to their enemy, but the cyber bully outsmarts them at every turn, leaving the trio to wonder if they've met their match. When a ploy to expose the culprit goes wrong, Marty does the unthinkable and loses his best friend Remi's trust. Not only does Marty have to find the cyber bully, but he also has to find a way to win back Remi's friendship. How do you find a bully who lurks on the Internet and lashes out at helpless victims? Intrepid kid detectives Marty, Remi, and Trina must answer that question if they're to stop a cyber-bully targeting their classmates. In their toughest case yet, the sleuths must follow the electronic trail to their enemy, but the cyber bully outsmarts them at every turn, leaving the trio to wonder if they've met their match. When a ploy to expose the culprit goes wrong, Marty does the unthinkable and loses his best friend Remi's trust. Not only does Marty have to find the cyber bully, but he also has to find a way to win back Remi's friendship. Marty Chan is back with the exciting fourth installment in the Marty Chan Mystery series. Sophie it seems has become an unwilling traveler in a timeless zone where past, present and future co-exist. Kidnapping, enemy spies, and terrorist plots all play their parts against the background of a world at war and growing unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Soon Sophie's powers of precognition will be called upon to help thwart a conspiracy that could incite a bloodbath in Calcutta, and deliver India into enemy hands.