Summer of the Mad Monk: Is Rasputin alive?

In the summer of 1932 raging dust storms are blowing away the lives of the farmers of southern Alberta. Dust has sifted through the crevices of the farmhouse where Pip Tyler and his family are suffering from the effects of drought and the Depression. But the new town blacksmith with the heavy Russian accent is hiding a mysterious stranger who Pip realizes could only be the survivor of the assassination of the Russian Royal family. Real-life drama takes over Pip's imagination- and it turns out he has a real role to play saving
the lives of his new friends.

Greystone Books

Douglas and McIntyre

Vancouver/ Toronto

Copyright© 1994

The Summer of the Mad Monk

SUMMER OF THE MAD MONK, Greystone Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 1994

(mass market p.b.) Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre, 1995

"There was no doubt he was strong. And he looked to Pip like a man who couldn't be killed - somebody you could poison and shoot and stab and drown and he'd still come back. He called himself Raspinsky, but Pip knew who he was. He was the man whose eyes they said had hypnotized the tsar's wife. Pip had found Rasputin, and nobody knew.

AWARDS for Summer of the Mad Monk

Canadian Library Association Book-of-the-Year for Children 1995

Shortlisted for Ruth Schwartz Award - 1995

Shortlisted for Mr. Christie Award - 1995

Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice"

Currently shortlisted for Silver Birch Award (Ontario Library Association)