Dundurn Press is thrilled to announce that Mountain Runaways by Pam Withers has been shortlisted for the 2024 Chocolate Lily Book Awards in the Novel Category. Congratulations, Pam!
After an avalanche kills their parents and Children's Services threatens to separate them, three siblings run away to hide in the mountains. Pursued by search teams, they face hunger, injury, dangerous animals, and a shadowy woods dweller. Can they survive the wild, and stop their feisty threesome from unravelling? Mountain Runaways is an exciting adventure/survival novel called “a non-stop thrill ride of a book” by Wesley King, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OCDaniel.
The BC Chocolate Lily Young Readers' Choice Awards encourage grade school students to read some of the best fiction written/illustrated by British Columbia's authors and illlustrators. Learn more about the shortlist and the award program here.
Pam Withers is an award-winning author of over twenty young adult novels, including Red Maple nominees Tracker’s Canyon and Stowaway. She lives in Vancouver.