Eric Walters Books in Order

Jonathan moves in with his grandparents while his con-artist father hides from angry customers. Accustomed to scams, he struggles to make friends and earn trust while deciding what kind of life he wants.

Joseph's life of theft and evading police takes an unexpected turn when he joins a wilderness program with other young people and social workers. Away from the city, he confronts unfamiliar challenges and his own self-doubt.

Helen, her younger brother, and their widowed mother join an Arctic expedition aboard the Karluk. When the ship becomes trapped in ice, the family faces a dangerous struggle for survival in a frozen wilderness.

After her mother's sudden death, Sky desperately wants to keep her three younger sisters together. Her newly discovered uncle might help, but his criminal past complicates their attempt to convince authorities he can provide a home.

Gord hopes a school trip to a remote island will help him fit in after his parents' divorce. Instead, stranded whales and a failed radio leave the students facing an urgent rescue challenge together.

During World War II, Jed takes pride in helping at a naval base while his father serves overseas. When his Japanese Canadian best friend's family faces forced relocation, patriotic certainty collides with friendship and injustice.

Sent to spend the summer on Alexander Graham Bell's estate, troubled teenager William becomes involved in an experimental hydrofoil project. Wartime invention and the threat of German submarines draw him into a dangerous mystery.

Sam and Beth return to Oak Island, where their grandfather's memory loss and their parents' arguments complicate the visit. Sam's fascination with buried treasure takes a darker turn when the family encounters a human skull.

Third-graders Nick and Kia enter a basketball tournament against older students and recruit Marcus to strengthen their team. Before they can prove themselves on the court, they must contend with intimidation and doubts about their chances.

Sarah and Nicholas discover their neighbor's extraordinary collection of animals while sheltering from a storm. Helping the retired circus trainer becomes a dangerous adventure when other teenagers release his tiger and the siblings must recover it.

Tadashi and his Japanese Canadian family are forced from their coastal home during World War II. Detention in Vancouver's Hastings Park confronts the teenager with racism, confinement, and the loss of ordinary freedoms he once enjoyed.

Sean hopes to avoid trouble and make the basketball team, but he is assigned to help a new student who uses a wheelchair. David's competitive talent challenges Sean's assumptions as their unlikely friendship develops.

Fourteen-year-old Tom Roberts expects to remain on the family farm while his father fights in the War of 1812. An encounter with American soldiers brings him to Lieutenant James FitzGibbon's attention and closer to battle.

Nick and Kia join a basketball team dominated by older players, only to find themselves stuck on the bench. As losses mount, Kia devises a strategy that could change the team's prospects and their own role.

Nick, Kia, and Mark prepare for a summer basketball tournament, reluctantly adding Nick's unathletic cousin Ned to their roster. When Mark sprains his ankle, the teammate they expected to bench suddenly becomes essential to their plans.

Nick and Kia try out for a basketball team run by a demanding former college player. His aggressive approach and obsession with winning force the young athletes to question how much making the roster should cost.

Kevin unexpectedly wins a photography trip to Churchill and finds himself traveling with a group of seniors. Missing luggage, unfamiliar surroundings, and encounters with polar bears turn his supposed prize into a challenging northern adventure.

Animal-loving Ricky and his friend Augie are devastated when vandals kill creatures in their science classroom. They launch a fundraising effort to replace the animals, including a boa constrictor, while pursuing their ambitious rescue plans.

Nick and Kia travel with their team to an elite basketball tournament in the American Midwest. Facing strong competition and their coach's intense expectations, the young players must confront doubts about whether they belong there.

Jack and George go undercover at a munitions plant, adopting new identities to investigate a suspected German plot. With explosives and enemy agents threatening the operation, their assignment demands secrecy while putting them in immediate danger.

While their father is away at war, brothers George and Jack stumble upon a secret spy-training camp near their Ontario home. Their discovery draws them into wartime intrigue as suspicion and enemy interest threaten the camp.

Nick and Kia visit Ned in an isolated national park, where a new basketball court promises summer fun. A spreading forest fire soon transforms their holiday into a dangerous struggle to escape the threatened area.

Jamie, a young Cree guide, helps host royal children on an expedition in Canada's remote north. When kidnappers seize the adults, he must navigate the wilderness with the children while trying to evade their pursuers.

After trouble at school and an attempt to run away, Winston accompanies his newspaper-reporter father to meet Terry Fox. Joining the Marathon of Hope brings him into contact with an extraordinary runner and a difficult family relationship.

Sarah and Nicholas help care for Mr. McCurdy's growing collection of unusual animals, including a bear and an elephant. The expanding menagerie brings practical difficulties and questions about how these creatures can continue receiving proper care.

A brother and sister discover a decades-old body preserved in a Rocky Mountain glacier. Photographs and other clues turn their unsettling find into an investigation as they attempt to uncover the frozen stranger's identity and history.

Alex and Sam embark on a New York City weekend without their parents, joined by their new friend Twilight. Their adventure puts friendship and trust under pressure as the teenagers navigate unexpected situations on their own.

Newly licensed Jake borrows his brother's car and joins a street race with his friend Mickey. After a crash, fleeing the scene leaves him caught between guilt, loyalty, and the consequences of telling the truth.

Older teenagers drive Nick and Kia away from the basketball court where they want to play. An appearance by NBA player Jerome Williams gives Kia an opportunity to seek help with their frustrating neighborhood standoff.

Nick and Kia return for another basketball season and encounter Ashton, a gifted player who seems unwilling to work with the team. His puzzling behavior pushes them to investigate what lies behind his apparent selfishness.

Jack and George move to Bowmanville, where their mother works at a camp holding German prisoners of war. A job delivering mail brings the boys close to captive officers and suspicions of espionage and escape plans.

Moose's football team enters a new division under a coach determined to improve its performance. When training turns toward steroid use, the young player faces pressure to accept dangerous shortcuts in pursuit of success on the field.

When illness disrupts preparations at the North Pole, Mrs. Claus must keep Christmas on track while Santa becomes absorbed in television. The holiday crisis calls for ingenuity as she struggles to get the work moving again.

In 1921 Toronto, Ruth becomes involved with efforts to rescue dogs used in medical experiments at the university. Her opposition to animal suffering grows complicated when a girl with diabetes needs the treatment being developed there.

Sam Campbell's basketball team seems incapable of winning, and a joke name threatens to make its reputation even worse. As the Laggan Lard Butts gather unexpected support, the players confront the challenge of changing their fortunes.

Ian volunteers at a soup kitchen to meet a school requirement and encounters a homeless man who once served in Rwanda. Their developing connection confronts him with genocide, trauma, and questions about what helping really means.

After learning disturbing facts about fast food, Ian organizes a boycott of Frankie's. Corporate threats and legal pressure turn his school campaign into a confrontation over whether young consumers can challenge a powerful company's practices.

Sarah and Nicholas look forward to a week helping their neighbor care for exotic animals. What they learn about endangered creatures and the threats facing them draws the siblings into another dangerous animal-rescue adventure together.

Will expects a dull school assignment when he accompanies his father to work at the World Trade Center. Their strained relationship takes on new urgency as the September 11 attacks transform the ordinary morning into disaster.

A school lockdown and a Muslim student's arrest expose deep divisions among classmates. Afghan Canadian Haroon and white football player Jay offer contrasting perspectives as suspicion, prejudice, and conflicting loyalties threaten their school's fragile sense of community.

Nick and Kia attend a demanding basketball camp run by Jerome 'Junk Yard Dog' Williams. Intense drills and scrimmages test their determination, while trouble surrounding a gifted teammate complicates their efforts to improve their game.

Brothers George and Jack are caught in another dangerous espionage adventure connected to Camp X. With mobsters, spies, and a kidnapping threatening their mother, the boys must navigate a conflict that puts their family at risk.

With her parents away, Casey plans a small party that might improve her social standing. An invitation spreading online brings hundreds of unwanted guests, turning her hopes of popularity into a night of damage and escalating chaos.

During Hurricane Hazel in 1954, babysitter Lizzie Hardy is stranded with David and Suzie McBride near Ontario's Humber River. With their parents unable to return and communications failing, the children face floodwater rising through the house.

Fifteen-year-old Dana survives on Toronto’s streets with two other homeless teenagers after leaving her suburban home. A drop-in art center offers refuge, but painting a self-portrait forces her to confront the abuse that drove her away.

Sarah and Nicholas help Mr. McCurdy care for rescued exotic animals at his farm. Their growing responsibilities become more dangerous when armed criminals and the illegal wildlife trade threaten the animals they are trying to protect.

After another shoplifting offense, wealthy teenager Alexandria Hyatt is ordered to spend a month working with a charity in Kenya. Removed from her comfortable surroundings, she struggles with unfamiliar conditions and a very different way of life.

Ian enjoys organizing flash mobs, but Julia dismisses them as pointless spectacles. When conflict with their strict principal threatens her place at school, Ian looks for a gathering that can make a difference and impress her.

Keegan and Alex get involved in their town's annual tomato festival when their fathers take responsibility for the tomato toss. Replacing the usual wooden targets with people creates a popular attraction that soon becomes difficult to control.

Fifteen-year-old Jay Hunter longs to leave his tourist town until he discovers his great-grandfather's history as a Niagara riverman. Investigating rescues, dangerous stunts, and recovered bodies draws Jay toward the river and his family's complicated heritage.

Young cabin boy Danny leaves home to join Robert Peary's 1909 expedition toward the North Pole. Aboard the Roosevelt, he encounters Captain Robert Bartlett and explorer Matthew Henson as the crew undertakes its Arctic journey.

Brian, his mother, and his sister travel into northern Quebec to scatter his father's ashes near a cherished childhood camp. Their poorly prepared canoe journey brings them into contact with Pierre, an elderly guide whose identity raises questions.

Five children's experiences reveal how armed conflict shapes lives in Sri Lanka, Uganda, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, and Sudan. Their stories sit alongside historical context, connecting individual suffering with the larger forces behind wars and their consequences for children.

A white eighth-grade boy and a Black seventh-grade girl become close through school and basketball. When their friendship turns romantic, supportive families cannot shield them from other people's prejudice and interference in their relationship.

Edward prefers getting by with minimal effort at school. Learning that students in special education receive extra test time, he pretends to have a disability, only to find that maintaining his deception demands work of its own.

A thirteen-year-old asks why people harm others, what inspires generosity, and how young people can make a difference. Responses from prominent Canadians accompany profiles of young activists working on homelessness, illness, and humanitarian causes.

On September 12, 2001, Will knows his father escaped the World Trade Center, but his best friend James still awaits news of his own father. Their friendship faces uncertainty and grief in a city changed by the attacks.

Sam travels to Thailand with his parents while his sister Beth stays home for her university swim team. A catastrophic natural disaster turns their holiday into a struggle for survival and sends Beth searching desperately for her family.

Marcus welcomes his father home from Afghanistan, then notices sleeplessness, aggression, and an obsession with news from the war. As his concern grows, he struggles to persuade his father to seek help for post-traumatic stress.

Nebala and two fellow Maasai warriors travel from Kenya to Beverly Hills to run a marathon and raise money for a well. Alexandria guides them through unfamiliar customs, extravagant surroundings, and the challenges of their American visit.

Ian initially wants no part in Julia's protest against school uniforms. Discovering that their manufacturer is associated with human-rights abuses forces him to weigh his conscience against a principal who threatens suspension for refusing to comply.

Seventeen-year-old Robbie lies to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force, hoping to follow his captured father's example. Assigned as a Lancaster navigator, he faces combat over Europe and a crisis that demands his limited piloting skills.

Philip and his friends launch a website featuring their skateboarding videos, hoping to turn their passion into income. Growing popularity and sponsorship bring pressure to produce more dramatic footage, pushing them toward increasingly dangerous stunts.

Nick, Kia, and their basketball teammates want a Toronto Raptors player to visit their school. After learning that the team's school schedule is already full, they enlist classmates and pursue increasingly ambitious ways to attract attention.

Assigned to Bermuda with their parents during World War II, brothers Jack and George arrive at a major center of espionage. Their new surroundings soon place them amid dangerous adventures involving the island's wartime intelligence operations.

After moving to Toronto, Taylor discovers a colony of feral cats living in a junkyard. When redevelopment threatens their home, he recruits classmates and other helpers to devise a way to protect the animals from danger.

An asteroid is approaching Earth, threatening the extinction of every form of life. Amid competing beliefs and survival plans, a young boy becomes an unwitting participant in an effort to preserve humanity before the collision.

After another expulsion, Ethan's father sends him to the Sahara with instructions to walk two hundred kilometers alongside a guide and three other young people. The journey forces him to confront harsh conditions and his own destructive behavior.

Still grieving his mother, Joshua accompanies his minister father on a charity mission to Haiti. Poverty and injustice challenge his faith, and a devastating earthquake forces him to confront questions of survival, hope, and belief.

A magnificent fish and other Pacific creatures share their waters with humans seeking to exploit or protect them. Ships, aircraft, and submersibles converge as a geological anomaly and a ruthless wealthy adversary threaten this marine world.

Confident teenager DJ travels to Tanzania to scatter his grandfather's ashes on Mount Kilimanjaro. Trouble at immigration, theft, and an unfamiliar climbing group challenge his assumptions that fitness and determination will make the ascent easy.

Hunter distrusts the humans who approach his feral cat colony, including a boy bringing food and chasing away dogs. When condominium development threatens the junkyard, he must reconsider whether trusting that boy could help protect his family.

On his fifth birthday, Kioko takes his first matatu ride with his grandfather in East Africa. Dogs chasing the vehicle prompt a question, leading his grandfather to tell a folktale about a dog, goat, and sheep.

Kate and Evan take the lead roles in their school's production of The Taming of the Shrew and begin dating. As rehearsals progress, the play's power struggles become entangled with their increasingly complicated relationship.

Jack and George cross the Atlantic to England after rescuing a member of the royal family. At Bletchley Park, they discover a Nazi scheme targeting British intelligence and face another dangerous attempt to undermine the war effort.

Muthini, a Kenyan boy with a physical disability, lives with his grandmother and eight cousins. Unable to provide everything he needs despite her love, his grandmother makes a difficult choice and takes him on a journey toward another future.

Cody dreams of reaching the NHL and welcomes a scout who helps him enter junior hockey. When that scout becomes his coach, apparent support gives way to manipulation, secrets, and an increasingly frightening abuse of power.

As his city cracks down on graffiti and cuts support for art, Oswald adopts the identity of The Wiz. His murals and gallery interventions escalate into a confrontation with the mayor that draws his friends into trouble.

Drought makes water scarce around Boniface's orphanage, and frightened villagers push the children to the back of the spring's queue. As the orphanage builds its own well, Boniface considers how to respond to the community's hostility.

After technology fails worldwide, Adam takes Lori on a picnic in his functioning homemade aircraft. Their attempt to enjoy an ordinary date carries them beyond their fortified neighborhood, where an unexpected misadventure exposes how precarious their safety has become.

When computers suddenly fail worldwide, sixteen-year-old Adam Daley watches ordinary services collapse and resources dwindle. His suburban neighborhood must organize for protection, drawing on his police-captain mother and a neighbor with a background in intelligence.

Political violence destroys Muchoki and Jata's Kenyan home and kills their father, leaving them in a refugee camp with their sick mother. Desperate for security, the siblings begin a long walk in search of remaining relatives.

Sixty-six days after a global blackout, Adam's fortified neighborhood faces threats that its defenses cannot easily contain. His mentor Herb's harsh security decisions raise difficult questions, while an unexpected danger tests Adam's judgment and the people he trusts.

After her orphanage burns down, Betty becomes a maid in a wealthy Kingston household and discovers her mother's connection to it. Her father is imprisoned for her mother's murder, but his claims of innocence send Betty searching for answers.

After an asteroid strikes Earth, Billy and his companions survive in refuge above the planet. Their escape from the catastrophe offers no guarantee of safety, and life in space presents its own threats to their uncertain future.

Academically gifted but socially awkward, Sam wants to fit in and find a prom date. With elaborate public invitations sweeping his school, he tries to devise a way to ask the girl he likes without ruining his chances.

Mutanu eagerly anticipates a special celebration at her Kenyan orphanage, where children without known birthdays receive a day of their own. As she completes her chores, she wonders what surprises this long-awaited occasion will bring.

Graham starts senior year in a new city after a painful breakup and becomes Ethan's wingman on a series of romantic outings. Treating dating as a game gets complicated when Graham meets someone who challenges Ethan's rules.

Five months after a global blackout, someone is targeting Adam and the fortified neighborhood he helps protect. Facing threats inside and outside its walls, he struggles to balance survival with the person his girlfriend hopes he can remain.

After her boyfriend calls her boring and breaks up with her, Sophie agrees to her friend Ella's summer challenge. For ninety days, she must try unfamiliar experiences and share them online, pushing beyond the routines that once defined her.

This alphabet book introduces young children to animals found across Africa, pairing letters with a variety of creatures. Familiar and less familiar wildlife give babies and toddlers a way to explore the continent while learning their ABCs.

As evening arrives, baby animals settle down and children count from one to ten through gentle bedtime scenes. Owlets, puppies, kittens and other young creatures provide a quiet introduction to numbers as the day comes to an end.

Raised in an elephant sanctuary, Sam bonds with a newborn whose origins hide an extraordinary secret involving mammoth DNA. When a powerful investor threatens the sanctuary's future, she must defend the animals that have become her family.

When a blackout disables cars and phones, Emma's family uses their packed camping equipment to retreat to an island. As the outage continues and desperate people seek supplies, their isolated campsite becomes increasingly difficult to keep safe.

Illustrated sayings from African cultures offer guidance about everyday life, relationships and community. The collection introduces readers to shared wisdom from traditions including Ashanti, Sukuma, Akan and Kikuyu, inviting reflection on the meaning behind each brief expression.

A boy meets a dog each day and takes him to the beach to surf, although he does not know who owns him. Their shared routine builds a friendship centered on companionship rather than possession.

An African creation story explains how the wildebeest came to have its unusual appearance. Using leftover parts from other animals, the Creator assembles a new creature whose distinctive form connects it to the continent's other magnificent beasts.

After losing her grandfather, Emily discovers letters he left for important moments in her future. His advice accompanies her as she grows, offering a continuing connection while she learns to live with grief and changing circumstances.

Preparing for a school production of Fiddler on the Roof, Shirli finds an old violin in her grandfather's attic. His angry reaction unsettles her and sends her searching for the family history behind his unexpected hostility to music.

Animal bath toys turn a baby's wash into a lively gathering, with penguins, seals, frogs and beavers joining the fun. Alliterative language and splashing play make a familiar daily routine into a playful picture-book encounter with animals.