Teddy has a plan to skip his school's participation in Remembrance Day ceremonies so he can play in a War Games competition. However, the night before the event, the power of a "special" poppy transports him to combat zones of the two world wars. Teddy finds himself in desperate situations and must make difficult decisions as he experiences the hardships and terrors of war.
EDWARD BUTTS is the author of numerous books, including Murder, Line of Fire, Running With Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award.
He has a Bachelor of Independent Studies from the University of Waterloo, where he was a founder of the university’s literary magazine, The New Quarterly.
He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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BOOKS
Pirates & Outlaws of Canada (with Harold Horwood), historical non-fiction, 1984; Doubleday, re-published 2003 Lynx Images
Bandits & Privateers: Canada in the Age of Gunpowder (with Harold Horwood), historical non-fiction, 1987, Doubleday
Buffalo: A Fable of the West, fiction, 1998. (quasi-book publication) Colombo & Co.
The Prime Ministers of Canada, sound recording, lyrics (with Blaine Selkirk), 2001, Sara Jordan
Idioms for Aliens: A Grammar Revue of Plays and Verse, humour, 2003, Maupin House (USA) *
Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging and Smuggling From Colonial Times to Prohibition, historical non-fiction, 2004, Lynx Images
She Dared, historical non-fiction, 2005, Tundra
Funky Phonics, sound recording, lyrics, 2005, Sara Jordan
Guiding Lights, Tragic Shadows: Tales of Great Lakes Lighthouses, historical non-fiction, 2005, Lynx Images
True Canadian Disaster Stories, historical non-fiction, 2006, Prospero/Key Porter *
The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws, historical non-fiction, 2006, Dundurn (A)
True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, historical non-fiction, 2007, Prospero/Key Porter *
True Stories of Canadian Battlefields, historical non-fiction, 2007, Prospero/Key Porter *
SOS: Stories of Survival, historical non-fiction, 2007, Tundra (A)
Singing Sight Words, sound recording, lyrics, 2007, Sara Jordan
Running With Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws, historical non-fiction, 2008, Dundurn
X Doesn’t Mark the Spot, historical non-fiction, 2008, Tundra
True Canadian Explorers, historical non-fiction, 2008, Prospero/Key Porter *
All About Weddings, non-fiction, information and trivia (pen name Ellen Bell) 2008, Dundurn
Line of Fire, historical non-fiction, 2009, Dundurn
Henry Hudson: New World Voyager, biography, 2009, Dundurn
Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, paranormal nonfiction, 2010, Dundurn
Shipwrecks, Monsters and Mysteries of the Great Lakes, historical nonfiction, 2010, Tundra (A)
Murder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada, historical nonfiction, 2011, Dundurn
Simon Girty: Wilderness Warrior, biography, 2011, Dundurn
Bodyguards: From Gladiators to the Secret Service, juvenile non-fiction, 2012, Annick (A)
Sheridan Nurseries: One Hundred Years of People, Plans, and Plants (with Karl Stensson), historical nonfiction, 2012, Dundurn
Wrong Side of the Law: True Stories of Crime, historical non-fiction, 2013, Dundurn
Behind the Badge, juvenile non-fiction, 2014, Annick
Rum, Blood & Treasure: Stories Strange and True from Atlantic Canada, historical non-fiction, 2016, Formac
Bandits & Renegades, true crime, 2016, RJ Parker Publishing
Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town, historical non-fiction, 2017, James Lorimer & Co. Ltd.
This Withering Disease of Conflict: A Canadian Soldier's Chronicle of the First World War, non-fiction, Guelph Historical Society, 2022
This Game of War, YA fiction, Ronsdale Press, 2022
Guelph Stories non-fiction, Wolf's Head Publishing, 2024