Wonderbear

Teresa Davey is flame-haired and six months shy of sixteen. Her microbiologist father calls her Wonderbear, after her favourite creatures; the microscopic but extraordinarily tough and resourceful waterbears. When her father becomes deathly ill, forcing their parents to seek treatment in Toronto, Tess and her six-year-old brother Sam are sent to stay with their independent and unconventional Aunt Sarah in a remarkable house in South Africa's Drakensberg - the dragon mountains also known as 'The Barrier of Spears.'But shortly after their arrival, Tess is kidnapped by a couple of unscrupulous fortune hunters, and forced to dive for treasure into a deep and secret mountain pool. And whenever she dives to the bottom the pool, she gets a powerful sense that she is not alone in the water. If Tess is to stand any chance of surviving her ordeal, she will need to have the courage and tenacity worthy of her nickname.Wonderbear is a sharp-witted thriller with a supernatural twist that is bound to satisfy young adult and adult readers alike.