The Ice Diamond Quest


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One of a series of mystery, adventure and horror stories. When Tim and Liz Austen travel to visit their grandmother and cousin, little do they know what awaits them.




Ice Diamond Quest, The Mm


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Together with their cousins, Liz and Tom Austen plunge into a dangerous mystery after they see a yacht off Newfoundland’s coast. While they try to find out why the yacht’s light was flashing, they have to get past a group of people called the Renegades and someone named Hawk. In The Ice Diamond Quest, Eric Wilson draws on Newfoundland’s customs and explores the environment, redevelopment and women’s rights. Wilson’s Liz and Tom Austen mysteries are in constant demand among young people who have tapped into Canada’s answer to the Hardy Boys.




The Ice Diamond Quest (Novel Study) Gr. 6-8


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The Ice Diamond Quest teams up Tom and Liz Austen with their cousins Sarah and Duncan Joy as they investigate the truth behind the mysterious yacht flashing a signal off the coast of Newfoundland. Appealing to children's inherent keen interest in mystery, Eric Wilson has skillfully woven accurate Canadian geographic and historic information into his writing. As such, these novels lend themselves to the integrated study of the mystery genre with Canadian geography topics in social studies, and investigation units in science. The Ice Diamond Quest provides rich material for the study of setting, characterization and plot development. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.







The Mysteries of the Ice Diamond


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After the Ice Diamond is discovered, the race to obtain its power begins. Numerous stories surround the legendary diamond, but everyone who has heard of it knows it holds power beyond anything on earth. Believed to grant immortality and invincibility, soldiers, lords, pirates and knights are fighting to seize this jewel and bring it home to the cursed island of Taima. In the midst of the chaos, Joseph Calderon, distant cousin to King George III, has forced Englandas most notorious thief, Pierce Longbeach, into the quest after a vicious gypsy tribe, also wanting the diamondas power, attacks his fatheras city and kidnaps his beloved sister. To find the Ice Diamond, Joseph follows Pierce as the lone outlaw seeks help from old friends and encounters old enemies. In the end, Pierce Longbeach will come to a crossroads to save the world from the diamond or take its power as his own.







The Rescue Princesses: the Ice Diamond


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Princess Maya is delighted to welcome the Rescue Princesses to the Kingdom of Lepari. ItOCOs a beautiful land with snow leopards living in the mountains! These amazing animals are very rare, so when Maya and her friends discover that the big cats are in danger, they have to act fast. Can the magical Ice Diamond help the princesses to save the snow leopards...?"




Canadiana


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Icefalcon's Quest


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In a land where magic rubs shoulders with science, the people turn to a barbarian for salvation from enemies. The barbarian must free from captivity a prince in whose memory is embedded the technology to achieve victory. By the author of Mother of Winter.




The Journal of Commonwealth Literature


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One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.