Dave Patterson: 9 books

How did the history of 1492 become so misinterpreted? What happened to teaching generations, past and present, the truth about the many contributions people of the Western Hemisphere provided to our modern-day civilization? Why has society refused to recognize the extraordinary number of gifts the...

Changel is studying the stars in the night sky when suddenly one of the great constellations comes to life, and great Orion and his faithful dog Sirius take Changel across the night sky in a great adventure with the fearsome Moon Goddess Diana chasing them with her terrible flaming arrows.

- the second and concluding book of Green Island, in which all is resolved. Sort of.

Democracy in Canada is a dead thing walking - vote for whoever you like, you get austerity, support for US war-criminal bombings around the world, support for corporate so-called 'trade' treaties that impoverish us yet more both financially and in democratic deficit. And the Canadian media...

Foundation story: The Liberal and Conservative parties have received a huge surprise from the voters of Prince Edward Island - after one too many years of blatant cronyism and corruption and incompetence, these mainstream establishment parties get turfed in favor of a group of Independents. Together...

Kelly wants to play ball, but has to mow the lawn first. She gets knocked out doing a repair to the lawnmower, and wakes up in a new world - she’s the size of an ant with the lawn like a big forest around her. She meets a real ant whose name is Andrew, and has some adventures while learning some things about the ecology of the lawn.

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter...

Ah, Effendi, when the seas are dead and the great whales no longer eat the tiny krill that is no longer there, and the air unbreathable and the wondrous colorful singing beautiful birds no longer bring joy to the planet, and the great forests and their endless living things but a dim memory where...

The subtitle of the book is an actual quote from one of our City Council members. I was asked to make a presentation to the City Council one evening on all the projects we as a church, had partnered with the city on to provide social services to our community. One of the reasons for the report was...