Welcome to Rachelle Delaney’s website!
…wherein you’ll find everything you want to know about the author, her books, and her musings of quirk and whimsy (and sometimes pirates).
Rachelle is the author of the middle-grade novel The Ship of Lost Souls and its sequel, The Lost Souls of Island X, both published by HarperCollins Canada. Check out the latest news and reviews, or download a free teacher’s guide.
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
- August 2010: The Lost Souls of Island X has shipped and is on its way to a bookstore near you!
- June 2010: Rachelle is honoured to accept the Canadian Author’s Association Bookland Press Emerging Writer Award
- June 2010: The Ship of Lost Souls is a finalist for the 2011 Chocolate Lily Awards
- April 2010: The Ship of Lost Souls is a finalist for the 2010 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, a BC Book Prize.
The Ship of Lost Souls
A rollicking tale of pirates and treasure, friendship and fun, and a crew of swashbuckling children you won’t soon forget!
“First-time novelist Delaney reaches into some of the most classic themes and adventures to create a perfect and exciting parable for modern times. The New World islands depicted are at once familiar and otherworldly, her take on piracy as a foil for plundering colonial powers is brilliant, and her placing of children in charge of their own destiny amid a lawless society is highly appealing to pre-teens.”
—Todd Kyle, CM Magazine
