Andrea Spalding

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Summer of Magic Quartet

1 - The White Horse Talisman (Feb-2002)
2 - Dance of the Stones (Jan-2003)
3 - Heart of the Hill (Sep-2005)
4 - Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak (Sep-2006)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Sarah May & the New Red Dress

    Sarah May needs a new dress. She longs for a red one, but Mother and Father insist that it must be made of a cheap material that doesn't show the dirt. A new dress of dismal blue is made. Sarah May and her friend the West Wind get together, and with ...

  • Sarah May and the New Red Dress

  • The Keeper and the Crows

    Misha is excited about visiting his favourite aunt, especially now that she has moved into a cottage that is more than a century old. What an opportunity to search out secret passages and hidden cellars. But Aunt Dora's home in the historic town of B...

  • Phoebe and the Gypsy

    Phoebe Hiller's visit to her grandmother's home in England is not going well at all. Not only does everyone in the village seem to know who she is, but Phoebe is treated like an alien every time she opens her mouth. Worse, the episodes of second sigh...

  • The Silver Boulder

    Sister and brother sleuths Willow and Rick are back! This time they're searching for a lost boulder full of silver, as big as a truck. Everyone they meet in Kaslo, B.C., seems to have a secret. Why is a young woman spying on them? Where is the oth...

  • The Lost Sketch

    While Rich and Willow are at summer camp in Ontario, they find an old boxcar in the middle of the woods. Inside is a mysterious painting. Rick thinks it's worthless but Willow has a hunch that it might be valuable.

    This is the first book in...

  • Me and Mr. Mah

    When Ian's parents separate, he moves with his mother to the city, a thousand miles away from the prairie wheat farm he calls home. With no friends and a bleak moonscape of a backyard to play in, Ian has only an old shoe box of objects from his past ...

  • The White Horse Talisman

    Summer of Magic Quartet - 1

    Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen must help Equus, the great white horse, find his mate and foal and regain his magical talisman. But as the horse rises, so does the dragon.The age-old battle between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel and A...

  • The Disappearing Dinosaur

    Sibling detectives Willow and Rick return in their most intriguing adventure yet! They join a dinosaur dig in Dry Valley, Alberta, where a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton is being excavated. However, the dig seems to be cursed with strange accidents an...



  • It's Raining, It's Pouring

    Little Girl means what she says and has the resources to get results. Not one to mope away the day watching the rain pour down, Little Girl struggles into her boots, raincoat and fire fighter's helmet, gets out the ladder and heads for the clouds. Ol...

  • Dance of the Stones

    Summer of Magic Quartet - 2

    Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen are eager to begin the next stage of their adventure. "The Stones have stirred," Ava, Hawkwoman and Wise One, tell Owen, "The time is near for the Circle Dance." The stones are the ancient stone circle of...

  • The Klondike Ring

    Rick and Willow travel along when their parents are hired to make a documentary about Dawson City, Yukon. The long summer days under the midnight sun leave plenty of time for adventure. Their new friend Casey takes Rick and Willow gold panning, an...

  • Solomon's Tree

    Solomon has a special friendship with the big old maple outside his house. He knows the tree in all seasons and all weathers. When a terrible storm tears it up by its roots, Solomon is devastated. But through the healing process of making a mask from...

  • The Most Beautiful Kite in the World

    For her birthday, Jenny hopes to receive the beautiful kite she has seen at the local store. She opens a kite-shaped package at breakfast, hiding her disappointment when she sees that the gift is her father's lovingly homemade creation.

    E...

  • Bottled Sunshine

    br> Chocolate Lily Book Award shortlist 2006-2007 _ Picture Book Category

    Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2006

    A touching story about loss and the lasting comfort of memories

  • Heart of the Hill

    Summer of Magic Quartet - 3

    In Volume Three of The Summer of Magic Quartet, Adam's turn to lead the adventure has arrived. The Wise One, Myrddin, needs Adam to retrieve his staff from the Crystal Cave deep inside Glastonbury Tor. The quest grows more dangerous, however, and...

  • Secret of the Dance

    In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure...

  • Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak

    Summer of Magic Quartet - 4

    The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's The Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work.The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a Silver Birc...

  • An Island of My Own

    Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British...



  • Finders Keepers

    Short-listed for the Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, 1996, the Violet Downey IODE Book Award, 1996 and the Silver Birch Award, 1997 While walking through a neighbourhood field in Alberta, Danny finds an 8,000-year-old arrowhead....

  • Dance Baby Dance

    Dance Baby Dance is an enchanting first book for babies. The rolling, rollicking poetry, paired with colorful and diverse photographic images of babies with their friends and families, is the perfect companion to Welcome Song for Baby: A lullaby for ...

  • Seal Song

    Finn loves to swim with the seals in a secret cove. He arrives at the cove one day and rescues a young seal tangled in netting. Finn wishes the seal could live on land. That night the seals sing. "No good comes from seal songs," says Finn's father. W...

  • Secret of the Dance Read-Along

    In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrea Spalding has published 23 books.

Andrea Spalding does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Secret of the Dance Read-Along, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Andrea Spalding, Sarah May & the New Red Dress, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Andrea Spalding has 1 series.
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