Darlene Foster’s exciting Amanda Travels series features spunky 12 year-old Amanda Ross who loves to travel to unique places. Readers from seven to seventy plus enjoy travelling with Amanda as she unravels one mystery after another.
I just learned that today is Darlene’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Darlene!
Amanda in Alberta
A camel-crazy girl, Amana Ross, visiting her aunt and uncle the UAE unwittingly becomes the connection between a perfume flash and saving a princess from an unwanted marriage. During the adventure, readers learn a few facts about the UAE, the desert, and camels.
Amanda from Canada meets her friend Leah from England in Amsterdam, where Leah’s father is conducting business. So the girls take tours (a canal tour boat, a working windmill, the Ann Frank House), meet interesting people, and learn about the Canada 150 tulip, how wooden shoes are made, and visit a WWII cemetery where many Canadians are buried. A stray puppy becomes part of the story as well as a mystery. There are delightful and satisfying twists at the end and well as discussion questions.
What a delightful middle-grade travel mystery. Canadian preteen, Amanda Jane Ross, is invited to be in the wedding of a cousin–in Ireland. The wedding party encounters a complicated abduction, which Amanda would like to help solve, but she keeps getting distracted by Irish castles and romantic legends and coincidences. When my own granddaughter is old enough to enjoy the Amada books, this one will entertain her with a mystery while she learns some Irish history and lore.
Amanda gets a mysterious note from her BFF Leah Anderson from Malta where she is with her aunt. Amanda has a chance to visit with a friend and his parents, but it turns into a scary mystery, with a missing ancient artifact. During the action they visit Blue Grotto caves, learn about protected storks and falcons, an island where the apostle Paul was shipwrecked, and Popeye Village, where the 1980 movie was filmed. An exciting visit to a new place.
Growing up on a ranch near Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Darlene Foster dreamt of writing, traveling the world, and meeting interesting people. She also believed in making her dreams come true. It’s no surprise she’s now the award-winning author of Amanda Travels, a children’s adventure series featuring a spunky twelve-year-old who loves to travel to unique places. Readers of all ages enjoy following Amanda as she unravels one mystery after another. So far there are eleven of these delightful stories.
When not traveling herself, Darlene divides her time between the west coast of Canada and the Costa Blanca, Spain with her husband and entertaining rescue dogs, Dot and Lia.
Her website: http://www.darlenefoster.ca Please visit Darlene’s Amazon Author Page.