Tom Thomson's Last Paddle

By Larry McCloskey

While camping in Ontario’s Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson. After a sleepless night, the girls are stunned by the appearance of a ghostly canoe drifting towards the shore. Is this really the ghost of Tom Thomson, the creator of The Jack Pine and West Wind?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Jul 19, 2002
• ISBN: 9781554886777

Larry McCloskey

Larry McCloskey is the author of the young adult mystery Murder at Summerhouse, Tom Thomson's Last Paddle, and Murder Fit for a King. The father of three daughters, he lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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