In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a 17-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy's name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin comes to believe that the answer lies in performing one grand and incredible gesture, so he decides to walk across Lake Erie in January. The temperatures have been below freezing for weeks. The ice should hold...

Part romance, part adventure story, part coming-of-age novel, Calvin is a story about a teenaged boy struggling to gain control of his own mind and destiny. (From Groundwood Books)

Calvin won the Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature in 2016.