Anita Daher

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Anita Daher

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Anita Daher draws writing inspiration from the many places she’s been fortunate to spend time, including Summerside, PEI; Yellowknife, NT; Churchill, MB; Baker Lake, NU and Sault Ste. Marie, ON. Since 1995 she has been entrenched in the book publishing industry writing books, articles and reviews, and leading workshops and presentations. She has worked on occasion as marketing director, editor, and radio broadcaster, and is currently associate teen book editor at Great Plains Publications. When she’s not working with books she enjoys playing her guitar, and riding her horse. Anita divides her time between Winnipeg, MB, and a small Francophone community in Manitoba’s cottage country.

Magazines:

Prairie Fire Magazine, Winnipeg, MB: Lost Boy, May 2008; The Gift, October 2009

Up Here Magazine, Yellowknife, NT: The North’s Unchanging Heart, October 2006; Magical Mystery Tour, January 2005; The Road Back Home, July 2001

The Sault This Week Publishing, Sault Ste. Marie, ON: It’s About Time, doctor recruitment promotional magazine, September 2003

Awards

2007 - John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Author

Recipient

2007 - TD Canada Trust Children’s Book Week Tour

Participant

Publications

On the Trail of the Bushman by Anita Daher

On the Trail of the Bushman
On the Trail of the Bushman by Anita Daher

On the Trail of the Bushman

Junior Canadian Ranger Tommy Toner has a terrible secret. During the annual JCR summer camp in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, he plays a prank which has unexpected and destructive results. Ashamed and afraid of what people will think, he keeps quiet, even though the guilt eats away at him. Tommy and his old friends Colly and Jaz team up to take part in a JCR competition at camp. They decide to search on horseback for the legendary Bushman, a Sasquatch-like creature who has been sighted near Whitehorse. But is the Bushman real or is he simply a terrifying creature of myth and legend? What Tommy and his friends discover puts all their lives in danger, and only the truth can save them.

Released: Apr 1, 2009

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Poachers in the Pingos by anita daher

Poachers in the Pingos
Poachers in the Pingos by anita daher

Poachers in the Pingos

When Junior Canadian Rangers, Colly and Jaz, visit Colly’s uncle on Canada’s Arctic coast, they are quick to discover something is amiss. Someone has been hunting gyrfalcons, the official bird of the Northwest Territories. Could it be poachers? During a pretend emergency, Colly and Jaz put two and five together and end up in a terrifying race for their lives!

Released: Oct 1, 2008

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Two Foot Punch by Anita Daher

Two Foot Punch
Two Foot Punch by Anita Daher

Two Foot Punch

Nikki blames her brother, Derek, for their parents’ death in a house fire.

But when Derek gets involved with a gang, Nikki knows she is the only one who can save him. Enlisting the help of a girl named Rain, who uses her athletic abilities to carry out acts of petty thievery, Nikki uses all her gymnastic and free-running skills to stay ahead of the gang and keep her brother from being killed.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Released: Jan 1, 2007

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

wonder horse by anita daher book cover

Wonder Horse
wonder horse by anita daher book cover

Wonder Horse

Fitting into a new school in a new city isn’t easy, but dreams come true for Sera with a gift from her parents: a gorgeous and spirited American Paint horse. Sera’s bubble bursts when a mean girl, Brittany, tells her that neither she nor her less then well-trained horse belong with the rest of the “reiners” in their riding class. As Sera sets out to prove Brittany wrong, she risks losing her passion for training and the friendship of another girl, Dev, who truly understands her. This story was originally published by Stabenfeldt (Stavanger, Norway) in 2011 as Wager the Wonder Horse and distributed in six languages: Norwegian,Hungarian, Czech, German, Finnish and Swedish. Anita Daher has been entrenched in the publishing industry since 1995, and is (thus far) author of fourteen books for children and teens. Aside from short stints as grave-plot seller, tour guide, and children’s party clown, she’s worked in aviation, publishing and broadcasting. When not word wrangling, she enjoys inhabiting characters on stage and screen.

Released: Feb 1, 2013

Publisher: Rebelight