Tess by Anthony North

"If this is life, I don't know if I can keep up."

Spirited fifteen-year-old Tess is frustrated with her recently separated parents, the claustrophobic Ontario town she calls home, and pretty much everything else in her life. Just when she thinks things can't get worse, she walks into class one morning to find her geography teacher sprawled across the desk. Dead.

Could there really be a killer at the school?

Nothing is as it seems, and even those closest to Tess appear determined to keep the truth from her. As she tries to discover who or what killed her teacher, Tess must face her own disillusions about small towns, love, justice, and social media run amok.

Tess is a fast-paced novel set in the complex, confusing, at times funny, high school years we all have to navigate.

Anthony North moved to Paris, Ontario with his family in 2006 and teaches drama and English at Paris District High School. He has had a variety of creative non-fiction articles published in newspapers in Australia and Canada. Tess is his first journey into young adult fiction.