A school field trip to the local Wetlands Unlimited marsh just outside the small prairie town of Milligan Creek, SK, gives best friends Matt, Chad, Dean, and Andrew a brilliant idea: hijacking the radio signal that transmits a recorded message about the marsh and using it to launch their own pirate radio station. Broadcasting late at night, mostly for their own amusement, their show quickly becomes an underground sensation. Keeping their identities a secret, the boys are ecstatic about the growing popularity of their program, until it draws the attention of Wetlands Unlimited-and the police
Up the Creek!, book 1 in the Milligan Creek Series, has sold over 40,000 copies and has spent 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian literature best-seller list. This is the perfect series for kids who love humor, adventure, using their imagination, and the outdoors.
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Language
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-1-7775988-2-2 (9781777598822)
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Kevin Miller is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. His debut novel, "Up the Creek," has sold nearly 40,000 copies and has spent over 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian Literature best-seller list and has topped several other best-seller lists on Amazon as well. Over the past 25 years, Kevin has applied his craft to a wide range of projects, including feature films, documentaries, novels, non-fiction books, and comic books. Kevin has been featured on CBC Radio, CNN, and numerous other radio and TV outlets, and his work has been written about and reviewed in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Variety, the Globe and Mail, and the ​Vancouver Sun. Originally from Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Kevin makes his home in Kimberley, BC, with his wife and four kids. In addition to writing, he also teaches extensively on creating writing and screenwriting, doing workshops at dozens of schools across Western Canada each year. He has also taught creative writing in the US, the UK, and Australia. When he isn't doing those things, Kevin enjoys playing hockey, skateboarding, fishing, hiking, and otherwise exploring his world. Kevin has done a LOT of traveling in his 25-year career, but these days he cringes every time he has to get on a plane. You can learn more about Kevin at www.kevinmillerxi.com.
