Author Jacqueline Guest to appear at Pincher Creek Library March 21

Author Jacqueline Guest

Award winning author Jacqueline Guest will be at the Pincher Creek and District Municipal Library Thursday, March 21 from 7 to 8 pm to to host a free presentation.  Guest is a prolific author with 17 titles to her name in the genres of history, young adult, and sports.

Her book 'Outcasts of River Falls', the sequel to 'Belle of Batoche', has been awarded the Indspire Award for the Arts in February 2013, and a gold medal for pre-teen fiction at the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.

Outcasts of River Falls

Jacqueline Guest

Who is the mysterious Highwayman?

After the death of her father, Kathryn must go to live with her Aunt Belle in Alberta. But a shock is in store for this well-bred young Toronto lady. Arriving at the town of Hopeful, Kathryn is horrified to learn her new home is a group of shacks called River Falls, a Métis community.

Never having known her true heritage, Kathryn is further shocked to discover it’s not even a permanent home. Barred from owning land, the Métis must find a way to live in the road allowances, or ditches – the strips of government land between the public highway and the private properties of recognized citizens.

Excitement comes in the form of a mysterious stranger known as the Highwayman, a shadowy Robin Hood
figure who rights wrongs against the Métis people in his own way. When he is framed for a crime he did not commit, and Aunt Belle becomes involved, Kathryn must use all her resources to prove their innocence – and challenge the deep-seated beliefs of an entire community.

Outcasts of River Falls is the sequel to the award-winning Belle of Batoche.

Jacqueline Guest is the author of more than a dozen books for young readers, specializing in sports themes and historical fiction. Her 2011 novel Ghost Messages is a Moonbeam Award Gold Medal winner
and  a nominee for the OLA Forest of Reading® Silver Birch Award® for fiction in 2012. Jacqueline’s
novels for young readers are unique in that many of the main characters come from different ethnic
backgrounds including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Jacqueline makes her home in the Rocky
Mountain foothills of Alberta.

Outcasts of River Falls
April 2012
$8.95
ISBN 13: 9781550504804 ISBN 10: 1550504800


For more information on the author, click here visit Guest's website.