Sarah May needs a new dress. She longs for a red one, but Mother and Father insist that it must be made of a cheap material that doesn't show the dirt. A new dress of dismal blue is made. Sarah May and her friend the West Wind get together, and with ...
Misha is excited about visiting his favourite aunt, especially now that she has moved into a cottage that is more than a century old. What an opportunity to search out secret passages and hidden cellars. But Aunt Dora's home in the historic town of B...
Phoebe Hiller's visit to her grandmother's home in England is not going well at all. Not only does everyone in the village seem to know who she is, but Phoebe is treated like an alien every time she opens her mouth. Worse, the episodes of second sigh...
Sister and brother sleuths Willow and Rick are back! This time they're searching for a lost boulder full of silver, as big as a truck. Everyone they meet in Kaslo, B.C., seems to have a secret. Why is a young woman spying on them? Where is the oth...
While Rich and Willow are at summer camp in Ontario, they find an old boxcar in the middle of the woods. Inside is a mysterious painting. Rick thinks it's worthless but Willow has a hunch that it might be valuable.
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When Ian's parents separate, he moves with his mother to the city, a thousand miles away from the prairie wheat farm he calls home. With no friends and a bleak moonscape of a backyard to play in, Ian has only an old shoe box of objects from his past ...
Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen must help Equus, the great white horse, find his mate and foal and regain his magical talisman. But as the horse rises, so does the dragon.The age-old battle between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel and A...
Sibling detectives Willow and Rick return in their most intriguing adventure yet! They join a dinosaur dig in Dry Valley, Alberta, where a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton is being excavated. However, the dig seems to be cursed with strange accidents an...
Little Girl means what she says and has the resources to get results. Not one to mope away the day watching the rain pour down, Little Girl struggles into her boots, raincoat and fire fighter's helmet, gets out the ladder and heads for the clouds. Ol...
Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen are eager to begin the next stage of their adventure. "The Stones have stirred," Ava, Hawkwoman and Wise One, tell Owen, "The time is near for the Circle Dance." The stones are the ancient stone circle of...
Rick and Willow travel along when their parents are hired to make a documentary about Dawson City, Yukon. The long summer days under the midnight sun leave plenty of time for adventure. Their new friend Casey takes Rick and Willow gold panning, an...
Solomon has a special friendship with the big old maple outside his house. He knows the tree in all seasons and all weathers. When a terrible storm tears it up by its roots, Solomon is devastated. But through the healing process of making a mask from...
For her birthday, Jenny hopes to receive the beautiful kite she has seen at the local store. She opens a kite-shaped package at breakfast, hiding her disappointment when she sees that the gift is her father's lovingly homemade creation.
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br> Chocolate Lily Book Award shortlist 2006-2007 _ Picture Book Category Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2006 A touching story about loss and the lasting comfort of memories
In Volume Three of The Summer of Magic Quartet, Adam's turn to lead the adventure has arrived. The Wise One, Myrddin, needs Adam to retrieve his staff from the Crystal Cave deep inside Glastonbury Tor. The quest grows more dangerous, however, and...
In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure...
The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's The Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work.The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a Silver Birc...
Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British...
Short-listed for the Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, 1996, the Violet Downey IODE Book Award, 1996 and the Silver Birch Award, 1997 While walking through a neighbourhood field in Alberta, Danny finds an 8,000-year-old arrowhead....
Dance Baby Dance is an enchanting first book for babies. The rolling, rollicking poetry, paired with colorful and diverse photographic images of babies with their friends and families, is the perfect companion to Welcome Song for Baby: A lullaby for ...
In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure...