Family, aging, survival, danger, relationships, humor

Vicki Grant is the award-winning author of many novels for young readers, including Hold the Pickles and Pigboy for Orca Currents. Her novels have won a Red Maple Fiction Award, an Arthur Ellis Award and CBC's Young Canada Reads as well as been short-listed for an Edgar Award, CLA Children's Book of the Year and numerous Forest of Reading awards. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.