ARTHUR SLADE's The Hunchback Assignments won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Its three sequels were all finalists for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award, and The Dark Deeps was also a finalist for the CLA Young Adult Book Award. Slade's previous books include Dust, winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, as well as Tribes, Megiddo's Shadow, Jolted, Monsterology, Villainology and the Canadian Chills series. He lives in Saskatoon.WEB: ARTHURSLADE.COM