Nonesuch, the last in a line of dragons, uses his unique ability to change in size to survive for six centuries, during which time he observes such different humans as a medieval monk, an eighteenth-century London chemist, and a modern American books...
Brian Newgate is one of the so-called "Home Children"--orphans or children living on the streets who were brought to Canada from Britain shortly after the First World War.
When Brian is falsely accused of theft, he flees the farm he has b...
He had "disappeared," Manuel's parents agreed. Many people disappeared these days. One instant they were where they should be: at work, or in their gardens, or walking down the street to buy a newspaper. And then suddenly they weren't anywhere. No on...